you guys need to take it easy. Let the guy throw at least one real pass before we start debating contract extension and amounts.
I think you should prepare to be disappointed.... And it can be argued that guys like Foles/Sanchez and Hoyer are having success because of Chip and Shanahan Jr. Andy Reid is a quarterback maker as well. Hopefully O'Brien will fall in that category and quarterback won't be that big of an issue if any at all.
Regardless of the main reason, the Texans HAVE been mediocre... and a QB making his first ever NFL start won't change that in the eyes of the bettors or the odds-makers. The key to the line is Cleveland... they're mediocre as well, in the eyes of the oddsmakers. This line would have been 3 or less with or without Fitzpatrick playing.
I'm about 100 miles from the stadium. We got about six inches of snow here. Not supposed to change much, except it may not snow Sunday. (Every other day, though) Also, it was lake effect snow, so I'm not sure how much Cleveland got. Getting pumped for the game!
So you can see through other people's eyes now _ Wow...!!! No, the key is the wise guys aren't necessarily in the business of making gamblers rich _ they are in the business of looking for suckers. And every week they will adjust the lines according to how the suckers are betting. Who would you bet your hard earned money on Nick...?
You keep saying this, but you have yet to acknowledge the idea that he may buy himself time from audibles alone. He may buy himself time from seeing the field better, alone. Also, other variables come into effect, as in the line playing better after a change (ie: new motivation), as in a different gameplan, playing a new team, other teams not having tape on him, having better pocket awareness than Fitz (which his limited tape seems to indicate), being a quicker decision maker, etc. You keep spinning this logic that he is already dead in the water, while mostly ignoring that there are infinite possibilities, especially in a system that relies on the quarterback changing plays at the line so much, as to him not getting sacked as much as Fitz.
The fact that the line hasn't increased indicates enough even money coming in on Houston's side... as the line opened at -3. Again, this many people betting on the Texans as a road dog against a "first place team" in a cold-weather game all points to it being against an opponent that is not only beatable, but simply not as good as their record suggests.
Where is this 9 game threshold coming from or is this the way you evaluate talent in the NFL? Going back and looking at the QBR from 2006-current, damn near every quarterback QBR is up and down not named P. Manning, Tom Brady, and Aaron Rodgers.
I meant to say 7 games, meaning that however long is needed to truly evaluate a QB at this level, it's longer than what we'll get to see out of Mallett this season.
Browns 23 Texans 9 The city slowly starts turning their attention to the only franchise in its history that has won a championship in the four major sports that happens to be 7-1.
Lol... Wade Phillips just said "noplayveon" when referring to Clowney on the radio. That dude cracks me up.
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