rezdawg is 100% correct. Texans should have traded up and taken a chance on Manziel. We better not trade a 3rd rounder for Mallet. No higher than a 6th for him. I want the Texans to draft Nix in rd.2 and Kyle Van Noy in Rd 3
The Texans could have traded up and gotten Manziel. They could have gotten both players! Everyone would have been happy. ESPN would have gone berserk. The fan base would have been ecstatic. Two huge needs would have been filled, but the Texans blew another perfect opportunity. I give the Texans a B- on this, but they would have gotten an A+ if they had been able to get both players. Why are the Texans so slow on the ball? Why does it always seem like they are one step behind everyone else, and why do I get the feeling that Daryl Morey would have walked away with both players if he were running the team? And if Clowney starts out slow, but Manziel starts out strong, it's going to get very ugly.
Unfortunately appeasing a fanbase and especially the media does not correlate with team success in most cases. We would still most likely be in this position if McNair and Co. had listened to the pundits and fans and took VY or Bush over Mario.
and you were WRONG about peyton manning. Defiantly wrong no less. The texans could have gotten peyton manning. Accept it. 'Gutted' team apparently is losing foster who hardly qualifies as 'gutted' when dude can't stay on field/ injury prone. mods requesting name change to~ 'bobby-the-great-at-being-wrong'
That move gets a lot of flack when it shouldn't. 1) The Texans had to take on a certain amount of payroll in the expansion draft. Well, either $27.2M in contracts OR 30 players and they went the payroll route taking only 19 players. Boselli had a large contract, so even if he never played, he served a purpose in helping us reach that total. 2) The only way Jacksonville would let us take both Gary Walker and Seth Payne (who were some of our best players in our first few years) is if we took Boselli. If we didn't, they would've pulled one back when we drafted the other. No Boselli = No Seth Payne.
Agree. Nix would be a good choice for the Texans. However, I think the R2.1 pick will be either Derek Carr (a strong-armed QB to groom to replace Ryan Fitzpatrick); Marquis Lee (a prime WR to complement and eventually replace Andre Johnson); or Carlos Hyde (a RB to replace Ben Tate and serve as insurance for Arian Foster).
The amount of Manziel butthurt in this thread is ridiculous. There is reason no one reached for him. I would have thought we didn't move to get Andrew Luck by reading some of these comments.
I respect you as a poster because, we had the same wants in the draft, but a B-? Any time you get the going away best player in the draft who will give you an elite line for the next 10 years minimum is a homerun! If they pick Nix and take the best RT avaliable, this will be an incredible draft for the Texans. Got to take a chance on the Alabama tackle or Miami tackle who tested positive for mar1juana.
We would still? texans STILL don't have williams who didn't do squat against manning (or much else)when it mattered. bush is STILL coming on and looking pretty damn decent. and young was STILL rookie of the year and tore texans a new ******* when he played them.
We haven't been hurt by not having Bush because we found Foster. And if the only memory of Vince Young's illustrious career worth noting is the fact that he beat the Texans as a rookie then I'd say, definitely, we would still be in the same position had we picked him or Bush over Mario.
Don't disrespect VY like that! haha he had some very good years in Tennessee, better than any years the Texans had in that time period.
And yet Vince Young is still not the elite QB that many on here thought he would be and is now, ironically, in Cleveland trying to latch onto a team #insertshirtlessindaclubpicture
not everybody's Peyton Manning... I just think it is unfair they way some people talk about VY because of how the second half of his career has gone. He was never a "bust" yet people still try and act like he was.
He was never a franchise savior either, which is what some on here think JFF or Bridgewater was going to be as the Texans passed up on them and took Clowney. So what if they didn't move up at the end of the draft to take either QBs? If the organization felt like either QB (or even Bortles) was going to be a franchise cornerstone QB, they would have taken him at #1 no questions asked just like Jacksonville did with Bortles.
No, they couldn't have, he picked the Broncos.....Even had the Texans let Foster and Meyers and OD go (which would have been REALLY unpopular at the time and would have left us with only 2 remaining O linemen from the year before) they still wouldn't have gotten Manning and even if they did, they still wouldn't be in a position to win anything. It really should be a dead issue.
