Yeah, that's why I think Phillips will look at some of these guys we have playing on defense and just shake his head. Also I don't think we get Champ or even pay him too much attention. Ever since the Ahmad Green thing the Texans have been shying away from players with age. Also I'm not confident that he can play safety...safeties are safeties for a reason and I would be disappointed that he would experiment playing safety for the Texans. I think Ike Taylor is the most likely, but Aso I would not be surprised to learn that the Texans made a strong attempt at signing him. I'm not really worried about the whole 'But we are not a winning team!' logic because in the NFL all it takes is one year to become a winning team. It is more about money in the NFL, especially a front loaded contract because your career could be over any play and your contract is never guaranteed. I can't really think of a time a player chose to take pay-cut to play for a winning team. A lot of players are fine just where they are at really. Not much big time player movement in the NFL.
Sorry I wasn't clear on my sarcasm. Totally agree with you. Unfortunately, I don't think the Texans does. Every year, they pass on the best FA players and sign mediocre ones to amounts that everyone goes WTF over. I don't think this year will be any different.
I have a hard time believing that they will refuse to try to get asomugha. phillips needs to have the stones to require this player. they better at least try to offer him something. how stupid of the raiders to let him go.
my blindness as a texans fan allowed me to forget about phillips dark past. Silly me for being fooled into thinking that the texans actually made a competent hire...just fell from my cloud.
I think they made a competent hire. Phillips isn't going to be the end-all solution. Kubiak being gone and us actually signing decent free agents would be an end-all solution
I'd love for the Texans to pick him up and help get the D turned around....Sadly, I agree with most on this board that the Texans probably won't even pursue him..
agree with you. we have top 5 defensive coordinator in phillips and a top 5 offensive coordinator in kubiak. if only we had a top 5 coach. even if we make the playoffs we will always be limited by kubiak.
I think the Texans will be listed as one of the teams interested in him, but I also think that we are going to end up being outbid by a team like the Dolphins, Redskins, or Giants. Getting Aso would be a franchise-defining acquisition, and it would INSTANTLY mend the fences that this organization damaged with the fanbase, but it's also a major pipedream.
To dispel some common myths: 1. Millionaires making $10 million+ a year don't care about "cost of living" 2. Texas is not the only state without state income tax (By the way everybody still pays FEDERAL Income tax) 3. Houston is not "warm" weather. It's HOT weather. Southern Cal has "warm" weather. 4. Again, a multi-millionaire professional athlete will have hot females ANYWHERE he goes.
Please no! If Bob gave the ultimatum to Kubes to win next year or else, he better do everything he can on his end.
If Kubiak stink it up next year, Bob will promote Phillips to HC. And he'll say, "Kubiak doesn't seem to be a good HC, but he's had a great track record of being a coordinator. So we'll retain him as our OC. So if Kubiak succeeds, everything stays the same. If Kubiak fails, Phillips -> HC, Kubiak -> OC, Dennison demoted to some weird offensive assistant, and a new in-name-only DC will come in.
We don't have a shot at Nnamdi. Someone that is/was in the playoffs this year will probably land him. I'd be fine with getting Ike Taylor as a consolidation.
If the NFL cap is anything like it used to be this likely won't be happening. I guess people are just saying we have no shot just so they won't be let down :/ From where I stand, I think we have a decent shot at it.
Why would the Raiders make the contract with unrealistic incentives like that and expect him to re-sign with them, probably with similar stipulations? Can't miss any games or improve sack/INT/tackle count? And it stripped the Raiders of their ability to franchise him. It's like they didn't want to keep him at all.
Mattj this morning impersonating Bob McNair via the Bobs from Office Space: "Nna... Nnam... Nnamd... Not gonna work here, that's for damn sure."
If by "right now" you mean "since their inception", I agree... Seriously, why in the world would Asomugha want to play HERE? There's nothing exciting happening here. The HC was 6-10 four years ago and he's 6-10 now. Just the same ol', same ol'. Not to mention that he won't get so much as a call from Bob. We don't need help on defense. We signed Bum's son as DC. Going to the 3-4 is going to solve everything. Did you see the Chronicle over the weekend? Connor Barwin is going to be the next DeMarcus Ware.
