He's much better than just a good player. Dude is a force out there. Offenses have to scheme protection focusing on where Mario is.
ESPN is dead wrong with the $18M base salary. $18 is the total pay in the first year. It appears to be $5-6M base with $12-13M bonus.
I get that feeling a little bit too but I think there is still room to work and get mario. I'm not sure how accurate the salary cap numbers are but i'm estimating 2011 cap numbers for Mario, Arian Myers and Brisiel are about 16, 0.5, 3.5, 0.8 respectively. (i completely guessed on Brisiel because I couldnt find anything)....but that's about a total of $21. Now we have Arians deal about 6. If Myers stays around the 3.5 mark and increases from there, along with a nice signing bonus, i'd expect him to say. Then you can lock Brisiel down for around 1-1.5 for, which would leave the texans with $10 left over for mario. Granted, they can't spend all of that on him but i'd imagine his first year will be around an $8 hit. Arian's deal is extremely respectable and reasonable... I hope Mario will sign a similar deal for himself (not $ amount but reasonableness).
Pancakes of all people just made Arian break down into tears during the presser. Asked him what his lowest moment in life was, Arian trying to tell the story of his mother selling her wedding ring to put food on the table. Such a refreshing personality in a sports world filled with arrogance and greed.
Whats weird is as a Texan he has been nothing like what I expected when he was came out of college. Here was a guy that had under performed his ability at Tennessee and was considered lazy, trouble-making, and difficult.
Yeah, kind of makes you wonder. Maybe going undrafted was enough to wake him up and he changed, or maybe he's been this way all along and just got on someone's bad side for some reason and they soured teams on him when they were doing their due diligence. It's not something I recall anyone ever asking him in an interview before.
A lot of Football coaches are like army leaders they don't appreciate free spirits. I could see where Arian could have gotten on many coache's bad side. :grin: He was just misunderstood. Happy he is a texan. I heard something about him releasing a video via the twitter to show his gratitude to the fans.
I think conquistador hit it spot on, people don't really do the whole "free spirit" thing and probably took from it that he wasn't engaged and dedicated enough to be drafted or even signed to a team. I think what hurt him a lot was his injuries in Tennessee, a lot of people kinda faired away from his cause he could never manage to stay healthy so it may have been a combo of both.
from hearing about his story it was a mix of things and not just because he was a "free thinker". I seem to recall Arian saying that he was immature and didn't handle himself properly at times in college and that he was difficult. If memory serves, it was the birth of his daughter that really flipped his internal switch
Maybe my favorite football player for either of the two pro franchises that called Houston home. And if you all know how I felt about Cris Dishman, you'd be very impressed. :grin:
I remember him looking pretty decent when he got PT early on, but the team had to really be in a bind for Kubiak to play him. I always got the feeling that Kubiak disliked him. Early on anyways...
not many tweet their mri's, and that was just 7 months ago. I'm sure he is being doing stuff like that, in good fun, for longer than that. MRI-gate rubbed the front office the wrong way. I do believe arian said "i was called into the principle's office" jokingly. Just misunderstood. Anyways, he is such a charming guy with a great sense for fashion.
Nothing wrong with emotion - especially when something means so much! His will to succeed in the playoffs with such drive and impressive numbers will be forever etched- can't wait till Fall Go Foster- future HOF'er -!?!?! -whoa there calm down
Can't wait to watch the press conference and interview when I get home. Just read his tweets. Foster is awesome. Gotta love the guy
MRI thing wasn't really that big of a deal and not the typ of antics teams were worried about. I'm sure he has always been doing little things like that but like i said (and I wish I could find those old interviews) he did not handle the adversity he faced his senior year well...he wasn't in a good place mentally. He was kind of a problem. Now, sure, some of that is because he is a different guy but I'm sure some of that was because he was an immature kid with a bit of a chip on his shoulder (and not the good kind). Between him being different, injured, fumble problems and some valid questionable attitude problems, it's not a huge surprise that he went undrafted. That by no means is a negative to who he is now, but i don't think its fair to say that it was because he was misunderstood that he wasnt drafted...he deserves some of the blame and i'm sure he'd agree with that.
