http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1678023-breaking-down-every-nfl-running-back-prototype There ya go bud.:grin:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Mariota to No. 1 RT <a href="https://twitter.com/nfl">@nfl</a>: The #1 QB... is NOT Winston? MAJOR changes in Mike Mayock's latest <a href="http://t.co/mxwPtGEuFz">http://t.co/mxwPtGEuFz</a> <a href="http://t.co/yLCd7tkhYn">pic.twitter.com/yLCd7tkhYn</a></p>— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/585880603091795968">April 8, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Man I really hope Shane Ray falls to us. Love his work ethic and demeanor, would wreak havoc on this defense.
They've been mocking Gurley to us for months. That's my go to mock site, but I'd be crazy impressed if they called that in late January or whatever.
Rumor I think; this twitter account has more than 8,000 followers: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Cardinals have CALLED Texans about potentially moving from 24 to 16 'If Their Players There.' Logic being its an edge rusher they covet.</p>— NFL_DRAFT_Bites (@NFLDraftBites) <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLDraftBites/status/585581761087803392">April 7, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Ordinarily I'm all for trading back and stockpiling picks, but I have so little faith in Rick Smith and co's drafting ability that I am completely against this. It's painful looking at the last two years. Just a train wreck. Maybe it will be better with the shakeup in the scouting department after Maccagnan left.
Do we neccessarily need a big time playmaker in the first? New England, Seattle, Baltimore, New York Giants, Green Bay Packers are the last five Super Bowl Champions and none of them won with a Running Back they drafted in round 1. In fact, in the last decade alone, only New York spent more than one first rounder on skill position players. A breakdown below: Seattle: 0 RBs selected in round 1. 0 WRs selected in round 1. New England: 1 RB selected in round 1 (Maroney). 0 WRs selected in round 1. Maroney was not on their 2015 championship team. Green Bay: 0 RBs selected in round 1. 0 WRs selected in round 1. Baltimore: 0 RBs selected in round 1. 1 WR selected in round 1 (Mark Clayton). Mark Clayton was not on their championship team. New York Giants: 1 RB selected in round 1 (David Wilson). 2 WRs selected in round 1 (Hakeem Nicks, ODB). Only Nicks was on either of their two Super Bowl squads. So going for Gurley or Gordon right now in the first might not be the best idea.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Mayock on Randy Gregory: "He could go into the 20s and maybe even into the second round. That is entirely plausible."</p>— NFL Media PR (@InsideNFLMedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideNFLMedia/status/585933040586620928">April 8, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Walterfootball has been on Gurley for the Texans all Spring also. I don't see it with Reed gone and Clowney iffy. I think our number one priority is knocking Andrew Luck down. We don't win squat if we don't contain Luck. I'd draft Gregory and get him a life coach, counselling, 24/7 surveillance and make it clear he will be drug tested weekly. The actual pot smoking doesn't bother me at all, it's just the risk of him getting suspended. Make it clear that he can have millions of dollars, beautiful women and 30 years of a good life after football if he can just avoid pot for 5 years.There have been lots of pot smokers that have abstained for longer for the sake of good careers . To get a top 5 player at 16 it could be worth the investment and risk.
I don't see how anyone can believe that O'Brien, a Belicheck disciple, is going to greenlight a RB for the Texans in round 1. It's mindnumbing, and the mock drafts that have us taking one there lose all their legitimacy for doing so. In my mind, you see what the Texans did last year and you interpolate. Look to the lines, offensive and defensive, for where we'll build up once again.
Last season people here thought that O'Brien, a Belichick disciple, would draft a QB as the overall top pick in the draft even though no Belichick disciple, or Belichick himself has ever used their first pick on a QB. Ever. Ever. In fact, people complained when I pointed that out. They believe what they want to believe.
I don't think the Texans will draft a RB in the first either, but Belichick did draft Lawrence Maroney in the 1st in 2006. He also drafted Vereen and Ridley with consecutive picks in the 2nd and 3rd round in 2011. It's not like he follows some script or formula.
1. Jim Schwartz is in the Belichick coaching tree and used his first ever pick as a HC on Matthew Stafford. 2. I don't know how many people here actually thought we'd take a QB #1. Some may have wanted us to. Some may have thought we'd trade down and grab a QB. But I don't recall many thinking we weren't taking Clowney if we stayed at #1. 3. Still, piggybacking on your premise, Josh McDaniels and Nick Saban were both Belichick disciples who ended up drafting RBs in the first round, Knowshon Moreno and Ronnie Brown respectively.
What belichick would have done is drafted the best overall player. Face is texans fans, we have been unlucky, plan and simple. In each draft we have had the first overall pick, the most talented player was a DE. That doesn't make us terrible, its unlucky.
1. Not really, he was a scout for the Browns for 2 years while Belichick was there, but that doesn't make him a Belichick disciple. If anything he's off the Jeff Fisher tree. 2. It depends on the time in which we are talking about, in January, most thought we'd take either Manziel, Bortles, or Bridgewater, by April, most realized that Clowney was the pick. 3. Fair enough, I haven't looked it up really. I still think there's almost no chance it happens, but I'll grant that you've established that some have done so in the past.
