weak conference....too much a crapshoot....go out there and get nick foles or something... i think he is a free agent this summer.
I have a feeling the Texans will Draft Clowney, draft a QB in the 2nd round, and begin the season with Keenum at QB.
With Bob's belief that this team isn't in rebuilding mode, I doubt they pursue a course of actions that results in Keenum being the starting QB next year.
That would be shocking...Keenum has done nothing but assure that he is not going to start for the Texans next season.
Honestly wouldn't mind if we went with Jake Matthews at #1 and a QB in the 2nd. The OL play this year was absolutely terrible and that right side may be the biggest hole in this team. It's not the sexiest pick but one may be the smarter one. And if Mariota comes out, that'll be 5 QBs with 1st round potential and I think one will fall to the 2nd round (4 QBs is the record). Matthews and Bortles with our first 2 picks wouldn't be a bad start IMO.
Hopefully we DO get the 1st round pick or the Rams are trading that pick to either the Browns or Jags and there goes our QB
Bortles will end up going in the first. It would be silly to draft a right tackle with the first pick. Beyond silly. We can get a quality tackle with the second or even third. I want a tackle in the second and would love it if Jeffcoat slipped to us in the third.
Like I said, not the sexiest pick but if you are not completely sold on Bridgewater and can't trade down, having 2 elite bookends wouldn't be a bad thing. I'm not sold on Clowney either. Agree with Jeffcoat, I really worried about him holding up against the run but he played lights out after Robinson took over.
I think Bridgewater has already proven he is a franchise-type guy, on film. I don't see how you take anything but a quarterback. Even if we trade down, which I don't think we will.
There is no way the Texans wouldn't draft a QB at their first pick even if Teddy goes back for one more year.
Lots of media chatter about the Rams moving on from Bradford, that his production isn't worth the price of his contract.
I think it's a lot easier to fix RT later in the draft than it is to fix QB. If you're trying to fix LT, then I understand. But RT? Having 2 elite tackles is a luxury, not a need. And while RT does need to be addressed, you don't need to use pick 1-1 to fix it.
So the strategy should be to take a solid RT and then the QB that the consensus of the league picks as the worst of 5, and hope that either (1) there end up being 5 awesome QBs in the draft or (2) the league and the Texans scouts get it wrong and the 5th one turns out better than the guy they thought was the best?
The "consensus" is usually seriously flawed. I'd take Andy Dalton right now over anybody else other than Cam Newton in the 2011 "QB-rich" draft class, including over Kaepernick (who was already picked later than Andy). Not saying this is what is going to happen... but to say it doesn't ever work out is just as much of an unknown as saying the #1 pick always ends up being the best player.
