try 20 years of pure misery. Texans are a young franchise, nothing happens over night or even in 10 years.
Funny. I wrote an article about two months ago about this exact same thing. In fact, the title is almost the same: http://www.texanstribune.com/2010-articles/november/boselli-curse.html
I really don't think it's a curse... Jacksonville made it to the playoffs pretty quick.. Detroit is the only team in the league that can't turn things around. right when we think we are there, they get shot in the foot, maybe bad luck, most of the time its the organizations fault.
Don't forget burning their first pick in the 2nd round to select Tony Hollings in the supplemental draft.
Yes...you missed NOT drafting Clay Matthews..and instead getting a juiced up meat head that hurt his team by failing a drug test and sucking after. Matthews is a studd.....Cushing is weak and sucks......
i didnt keep up with college football back in the day so how was david carr viewed as coming out of college? (compared to recent qb drafted in the past few years) man wasted picks on carr and gaffney - even though gaffney still seems to be serviceable but prob not 1st second rounder material.
Carr was the concensus #1 qb. He put up big time numbers in college and had all the tools the pros want, i.e. big arm, pretty accurate, athletic, etc. It's too much hindsight to say they shouldnt have drafted him. Gaffney...is/was a gaff.
Drafting Carr wasn't a mistake. He was graded as the #1 qb coming out of college. The mistake was throwing him into the fire behind an o-line that basically didn't exist the year before. They should have brought in a veteran to help Carr along and let him observe a pro in action. Instead, McNair wanted the perfect "look" for the franchise and Carr was the symbol of that "look"
Carr had a big-time senior year. I'm going from memory here but something to the tune of 4,000 yards, 40+ TDs and single-digit INTs. His team was pretty good, too - finishing 10-2, IIRC, with 1 or 2 wins against top 25 teams (which, for Fresno State, was pretty doggone impressive). I had a Texan site at the time and became online acquaintances with two scouts who swore up and down allegiance to Carr. (I actually favored Peppers.) They said he could make all the throws, was football smart and instinctive, athletic - the real deal. I've always maintained the team failed him - but would love to one day read a definitive account of what really happened: Did he simply not have it from the start? Or was it beaten out of him? Regardless, drafting him at the time was completely justified, even if he wasn't your first choice.
It was pretty much a given that David Carr, Joey Harrington, and Peppers were the 3 best players in the draft. IIRC, McNair wanted a face for the franchise and drafting a DE wouldn't exactly fit that bill. (how things changed 4 years later...) So it was between Carr and Harrington. I don't blame them for drafting Carr. He had a monster senior year and I was so fired up about getting a team back in Houston that I actually went to the Rice vs. Fresno State game that year just to get a good look at him. File it under the "seemed like a good idea at the time" category. One good thing about having Carr is that it kept us from drafting Vince Young. Lord knows we have enough problems as it is without that spoiled little titty-baby throwing temper tantrums on the sideline every other week. LOL.
I once heard from a good source that Carr just didn't put in the work off the field and in the offseason. He was similar to Mike Vick in Atlanta or maybe Vince Young now ... just thought they could coast on talent. Last one in, first one out. Now, it can easily be argued that he could have spent 12 hours a day watching film and it wouldn't have helped with how terrible our o-line was. I think he was probably doomed either way since they threw him into the fire.
i've heard they took boselli because they had to in order to get payne and walker. never expected him to play
This is true, so it really wasn't a bad deal considering we got two above average dlinemen out of the deal.
I liken what they did with Carr to what the Oilers did with Pastorini. The difference to me was that Pastorini was mentally tougher than Carr and the experience of getting the ***** stomped out of him did not break his spirit as was the case with Carr. Now contrast the way the Texans handled Carr to the way the Steelers handled Rothlisberger. I believe that alone speak volumes about the Texans' organization and why it has yet to be successful. If I were BottomLine Bob, the organization I'd strive to emulate would be the Steelers and not Bud Adams' Oilers.
