[Official] Texans Offseason Thread

Biggest issue though is that the offense wasn’t very good and it’s gotten worse.

 

The good thing is there's a new offensive coordinator that can hopefully change the way the offense operates.

And a new offensive line. You improve it, the offense should get better all around.

Then it just comes down to health.

 

He was playing with a knee injury, he had no lateral movement

 

right there’s a chance that the new offensive coordinator is a savant and that all the bad offensive linemen become good under him.

 

They should definitely find a way to get all these kids who play in college into the pros. Maybe a mechanism that allows teams to pick players from a pool of college players

 

I get your sarcasm but that was what I was saying is they need to draft offense. So glad you agree.

 

Has it, though?

 

Absolutely. They haven’t scored a single point in almost three months now.

 

He missed another xpt, didn't he?

 

The only thing I am somewhat confident in is we aren't going into the draft so desperate for OL that we won't take a chance on a better player at another position. We now have bodies which at least mitigates the desperation.

 

I think they learned from last year. They televised their need for DT and Corners so much so that there was a huge run on DTs and corners leading to their pick.

now this year everyone knows they need a wr and OL help but maybe not as desperately as last year

 

The Texans offensive line looks to have gotten worse on paper. But there is a case that it got better in synergy.

I remember the old Houston Texans, and their amazing OL anchored by Bruce Matthews and Mike Munchiack. Neither of those two hall of famers seems to be arrogant. Both always seemed to be team first oriented.

Here the all-pro Tunsil uses the 2025 playoffs to demand more money even though he still has 2 years left. Talk about scooping every last pence he can…

I respect Tunsil’s talent, but his team character seems akin to a mercenary, he’s a hired gunfighter - nothing more.

 

Players should hire their mercenaries, not be them.

 

You are right, players hire the agents that do the Highest bidder contracts. Tunsil just goes all in for the advice of his agent!!!

My bad, my analogy obviously had some holes. But good job in catching it.

 

Steinkuhler (#1 overall), Munchak (#2? overall), Pennington, Bruce (#14 or so), RT?

That was a great OL

 

2, 8 & 9 for Steinkuler, Munchak & Matthews. And it was Jay *Pennison* (interestingly, undrafted). Just tidying up. Steinkuler was hurt often. They eventually replaced him with David Williams (1 in '89).

The other big OL stud was Harvey Salem, taken in round 2 in '83. He never quite put it together, and Glanville/Herzog eventually ran him off/traded him when he held out for more money.

 

1-2-14

2-8-9

Put 'em on a dartboard and I'll hit something. Thanks for the multiple corrections. It's kinda hard to say "This OL" because Bruce played all 5 spots at one point or another, right?

 

While we're tidying up, I thought "Steinkuhler" was a G and David Williams was an T. Am I remembering that correctly?

 

Williams came a bit later I thought, and was the "babygate" posterchild