so the colts were the worst team last year and what have they done? they think with luck they are gonna be in the playoffs?? what they havent done anyhing (by your standards, re-signing good players (reggie wayne, mathis) is not doing something in the offseason) so colts attempt to better is to get a QB that havent played a single down in the NFL? and they have released 7 or 8 players (including starting RB, starting QB, starting TE, #2 WR) so they should have tons of cap space.
Rick and I are on the same page this offseason. So funny how people actually thought Mario was going to resign w/ Houston.
Of course he is. He's going to go all out...unless he gets hurt. It's every season after that (or if the Bills start sucking again) where he might let off the gas.
I feel no different about Mario than I did a year ago. But it is human nature to rationalize things post breakup. Same as when a girl breaks upwith you. Plenty were after him, the Bills just outbid everyone with their first offer. They knew they had to be the top dollar.
Adam Wexler, citing a CNBC interview with Bob McNair, says that we were offering Mario about $10 million/yr. So apparently Mario was just all about the money. He chose $6 million and the NFL purgatory with state income tax over us.
Or, looked at another way, he took market value instead of being asked to take a massive discount and presumably much less guaranteed money from a team that was also all about the money. At the end of the day, all teams and virtually all players make decisions in their best economic interests. Teams don't pay players more than they need to out of loyalty, and players don't take less than they need to out of loyalty. There's nothing particularly wrong with that on either side - everyone looks out for their own best interests.
well it's good to hear that they at least had some money to offer him something...even though they had to know that offer wasn't going to be accepted.
Just saw Laurent Robinson signed a 5 year, 32.5 million dollar deal. I know it would be nice to add some talent to the current roster, but the beginning of the free agency period is all about teams overspending to get talent. There is no way the Texans would be able to be players in any of the deals that have gone through so far.
exactly. Big/overinflated contracts go early. Texans don't need and can't handle any part of that mess. If/when they sign some guys it will be later. Prices decrease over time. The overreaction to them not signing someone in the first couple of days is a little knee-jerky. Granted, there is reason to be a little nervous but I just wouldn't start writing your suicide note just yet.
This is your… what - fifth time to crow about your completely made-up internet victory? (Sixth - I'm going to count the drivel you sent me in a PM.) It really, truly must have been a big moment for you. In the meantime, as I previously offered, if you’ll repose the questions you keep erroneously claiming I refuse to answer, I’d be thrilled to answer them. (Again.) (pssst… cardpire? Yeah… you’re doing it again - conjuring stuff out of thin air… No one feels this way and there isn’t a single post anywhere, across the entirety of the internet, in which anyone has even remotely hinted at this, let alone said it. And that's because a 4-year old child, whose brain has fallen out of their head and been replaced by a bunch of loose cabbage, would be able to differentiate between wanting the Texans to improve the team and understanding that there isn’t money available to do so beyond (hopefully) retaining their own players. What's your excuse for continually confuing the two?) Dear Rockets2K, My BFF cardpire has most assuredly not brought Peyton Manning chatter into this thread. When he asked, “are you happy going into the season with ben taub schaub”, there was no context oozing from every syllable of that question; not a single thing to read between any lines. When he later called Schaub, “an oft-injured qb who missed a deep playoff run” – only a moron would think he had some ulterior motive; I mean it’s not like he filled 54 pages of a thread with Manning spewage, amIright??? And later, when he just couldn’t help himself and offered: “oh, i left a free agent out that i would have liked to see them show some degree of interest in, but i'm not going to bring him up in this thread.” Did you think he meant Peyton Manning? Uhm... did he ever actually type, “Peyton Manning”, Rockets2K? No. It was very obviously about Chad Hennie. So stop putting words in cardpire’s mouth. It’s filled already with paste and nails and whatever else he can get his hands on while the nurse isn't looking. Sincerely, Hey Now! PS Have a nice day.
that was all in reference to wanting to sign a backup qb for him, idiot. don't really have a reason to lie about that. i've made it clear that i'd rather have manning than schaub as our starting qb. your putting words into my mouth and taking crap out of context continues to be downright sad and bizarre. this was the sentence that you just mixed and matched to your liking: "and for a team with an oft-injured qb who missed a deep playoff run 100%, imo, because t.j. yates was the qb, signing a capable backup qb should absolutely be a major concern." the texans missed a deep playoff run because t.j. yates was what we were left with after schaub went down, hence i would like them to sign a capable qb to back schaub up. but i'm sure you knew that's what i meant, you are just looking for more and more desperate ways to form arguments and get people to rally with you. apologies to everybody who asked me not to respond to him anymore. if he keeps luring me by misquoting me, making up lies, and flagrantly taking my words out of context, i can't stop myself from taking his bait.
better make sure i type "you're" before he answers with a clever typo-correcting sentence instead of a simple apology. better yet, let me make his cute reply for him: "sorry, cardpire, your right"
Actually, when Schaub went down, I believe Captain checkdown was our backup QB, not Yates. It's not like they haven't tried to fill that back-up role behind Schaub (Rosenfels -> Orlovsky -> Leinart/Yates). There's just only so much money teams can allocate for backups that will (hopefully) never see the field. Especially when everyone is clamoring to spend more money on retaining the OL, finding a 2nd/3rd WR, and keeping next year's FA's (Brown/Barwin/Schaub(?)/etc.).
Very true. I'm not trying to vilify Mario. It's hard for us to put ourselves in a professional athlete's shoes, but for me a chance to make $10 million a year in a place that I presumably like and get to play for a better team would be more tempting than more money in Buffalo of all places. If he had gone and signed with Tennessee or Chicago or another team with a chance at really competing it might be different. But it's done - gotta move on. Circumstances were just too great in this situation.
true...i meant for the playoffs, and that it looks like yates will be our backup this year. and my point is that these next few years are more important than ever to insure him with a good backup qb.
That's assuming they go "all-in" on Schaub and commit to him beyond this year. They could have extended him this offseason to shoot down any Manning speculation, but they didn't (probably because he's recovering from injury and they want to see how he responds to the surgery), and now he's set to hit the FA market like Williams, Myers, Brisel, and Dreessen. Should be interesting to see how the Texans navigate the next couple of years and try and take advantage of this "window of opportunity."
i have no problem with a player taking his talents elsewhere, as long as he doesn't make a spectacle of it. Infact,it's nice seeing a not so big market like buffalo have a chance at improving, unlike other sports :cough: commissar's nba:couch:
good deal all the way around. the texans do not need to pay this guy what he is worth. this is operating in the nfl in the 21st century. you can't give out 100 mill contracts like handing out gold watches for an ibm retirement.
