Texans sign Brock Osweiler

Clutchfans knows the real Elway:

Spoiler

 

Film Room on Osweiler; lots of GIFs in that article:

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/film-room/2016/film-room-brock-osweiler

 

Well that's reassuring.

 

If you're going to discredit his TD-to-Int ratio due to a small sample size and luck, couldn't you say that the same small sample size and bad luck accounted for some of the negative things that the article mentioned?

Stats geeks are really starting to get on my nerves.

 

All this crap from Bronco fans and this media narrative; the fact is the Denver offense went from 31st in the league (with Manning) to 11th in the weeks Osweiler was QB. That painfully vanilla Kubiak playcalled offense had a terrible O-line, mediocre run-game, and a #1 receiver that dropped passes like it was his job. Despite all that, Osweiler's 16-game pace comes out to 4,000 yards passing and 24 TDs. He beat Brady, Cutler, Rivers, Dalton. Nothing about this is 'pedestrian' for an NFL QBs first career starts. Don't just read rotoworld editorial blurbs to get your impression of everything, folks.

Oh, and Denver did offer Osweiler starter money. They wanted to give him 16 million a year and Elway wants to be all butthurt about Brock leaving after he declined.

 

OBrien did think Mallet was great. I feel more confident in RACs defensive signings at this point

 

Sounds about right to me.

Some highlights:

 

No he didn't. He benched him for Brian Hoyer.

 

Well true, after trading for him, signing him to another year, and giving him several starts.

It took him that long to figure it out but apparently he knows Brock is good from a few hours of film

 

I went on Denver's sports station 104.3 The Fan and listened for the day. Fans are pissed at Osweiler and crying about him leaving. All of a sudden, he isnt a good QB. I guess Houston will have 2-years to find out.

 

Good grief.

 

looking closer at the hairline.. we might have another bald QB in 5 years

 

Schaub didn't have much hair and he was better than Carr

 

You're conflating two separate thoughts... Yes, O'Brien invested in Ryan Mallett - but because he thought he was "great" or the best option among a bunch of **** options?

 

I'm not going to lie, I was lukewarm on him to begin with and the more reports I read from people breaking down film, I do not like what I read.

Crossing my fingers.

Still don't blame them for the gamble, but I hope it's not just based on OB falling in love with the size and personality.

 

Good point

 

He definitely didn't think he was great. He brought in Brian Hoyer and paid him more money and by all accounts didn't really give Mallet a fair shake in the QB competition.

 

Kind of reposting what I said above but a small sample size of 8 games in a vanilla Kubiak offense with no running game skews those stats; it should be much better here with the coaching of BOB giving Fitz and Hoyer career years here, a nice running game in Lamar Miller, a stout defense, and Hopkins helping him. We won 9 games back to back years with crap QB's; I am sure we can win more with Os.

Broncos sure felt confident in him offering him 16M a year

 

wow, that was a major hit piece. why not GIFs on the good plays he made

what's the motive for a one-sided hit piece like that?

 

35-72 mil for 7 starts and bad numbers. Seemed like an easier thing to write about.