Yeah Gamble is a great athlete but it may be a reach to take him at #10. I like DeAngelo Hall a little better because he is more of a game breaker than Gamble. Hall is like a Phillip Buchanon type who can score anywhere on the field.
Ok, well, note to texans fans... drafting henson with a 6th round pick doesnt make casserly the god you think he is. It was a good move, but hes not a genius because of it. Henson told teams specifically NOT to draft him. Casserly just ignored this and took a risk on a pick ( the 6th rounder) that was worth very little. Although it was a good move, maybe you should get off your knees until we see what this third round pick produces.
okay....... Either way, 6th Rounder turned into a 3rd rounder is SWEET! Big C has done a good job in my book. We could have gotten NOTHING for him. If no one offered him a contract he would have gone into the draft. BUT, we got a 3rd ROUND PICK! That is awesome.
Dallas Morning News: Cowboys take chance on Henson http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/031404dnspocowlede.3d6d6.html Despite long layoff, club hopes former Michigan signal-caller worth the risk There is not much of a body of work to judge Drew Henson as a quarterback. He started only eight games for the University of Michigan, one less than Maurice Clarett had at Ohio State. But the Cowboys are hoping the three years away from football did not erode the skills that some NFL scouts say would have made Henson a sure-fire top-five pick in 2002. In front of 20 teams last month at the Houston Texans' practice facility, Henson displayed the ability to make all the throws and showed good athletic ability for a 6-5, 223-pound quarterback. The Cowboys are poised to acquire Henson, Houston's sixth-round pick last year, in a trade with the Texans for a third-round pick in 2005. They have agreed on an eight-year contract that guarantees Henson at least $3.5 million. If Henson turns out to be the quarterback the Cowboys have been searching for since Troy Aikman retired, then it was a gamble worth taking. "The thing that intrigued everybody was his arm and the athletic ability for his size," said one general manager of a team that had interest in Henson. "For all the physical stuff, it's a positive. The biggest question is his lack of experience and does he have the quarterback savvy? You won't know that until he plays." Henson hasn't played a game since he led Michigan to a 31-28 win over Auburn in the 2001 Citrus Bowl. He completed 15-of-20 passes for 294 yards and two touchdowns, including a 31-yarder to David Terrell, who would become a first-round pick of the Chicago Bears. His best game arguably came in a 54-51 loss to Northwestern when he completed 23-of-35 passes for 312 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions. Against Michigan's most-heated rival, Ohio State, he completed 14-of-25 passes for 303 yards and three touchdowns. He also ran for a score in the 38-26 Wolverines' victory. Since giving up baseball Henson has spent the majority of his time in Bradenton, Fla., working with former NFL coach Larry Kennan. A 15-year veteran of the league, Kennan believes Henson would be able to play right away even with the layoff. "To me, it's not that big of a deal," said Kennan, who is the head of the NFL Coaches' Association. "Part of getting him early is that you will have him for two or three months before camp starts. How is he going to react when he sees something in a game? The same way he reacted like he's always done." In addition to the Cowboys, Henson worked out for Cleveland and St. Louis. One team that met with Henson privately came away impressed with his football acumen. In his Valley Ranch workout, Henson threw passes to wide receivers Cedric James, Zuriel Smith and Antonio Bryant as Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones, Bill Parcells, Maurice Carthon and others, including Aikman, watched. Henson is considered fundamentally sound, but he sometimes drops his elbow, which causes the ball to float on him. "He has a tendency to wind up at times," the general manager said, "but you can tell he's been working on his mechanics." Once he becomes a Cowboy, he'll get to work on his mechanics some more and pursue a sport that never really left him. "It just basically came down to I missed football a lot more than I ever thought I would," Henson said after his workout last month. "When you play the quarterback position, you're a leader; you're involved in every play, and I missed that. It's not that I necessarily took that for granted, but it is something that I missed, and I'm interested in getting back to that."
There's a difference between rooting for Henson and rooting for the cowboys. I rooted for Hakeem to do well in Toronto, but I didn't give a damn about the raptors.
drewp.. true he isn't a genius.. but he's smarter than all the teams with qb needs who didn't take a chance on henson
I does not make sense to me to root just for a player because IMHO any players success is not mutual exclussive from his/her team's. Critical thinking tells me that if Henson succeeds - the cowboys will benefit from it. But I will still prefer we beat them in head-to-head match ups in the super bowl or regular season.
All is has to produce is more than nothing, which is exactly what most teams believed drafting Henson would produce. It wasn't genius, but it was a gamble that payed off. CLICKETY-CLACK! SEVEN!
Yeah, because drafting a junior QB in the 2nd round who was going to be benched his senior year for a true freshman was a good idea, too.
I have no interest in going tit for tat on the work of the two franchises GMs, so save it. I hate Jerry Jones, so why not try something that we dont agree on?
when the biggest thing your franchise has achieved in its "history" is a win over the team whose penis it most envies, that really is all that needs to be said. somehow I imagine that, once you've appeared in 8 super bowls and won 5, we won't be hearing so much about "19-10". you are the Boston Red Sox. accept it. seriously, though, it's cute. "19-10! 19-10!"
Nope, you'll still hear about it, because it was pathetic. It just as funt o remind someone else how pathetic they were as it is to remind them how great you are/were - at least that's what I've found.
Man, the Texans are a failure if they haven't been to eight Super Bowls in their two years of existence. If only the Texans could've shown the greatness that the Cowboys showed in their first two years.
I'm telling ya! I'm starting to come around here. The Texans should have been to at least 4 Super Bowls by now. I mean think about it, that's only half as many as the Cowboys...they should have accomplished that by now. And I don't want to hear any excuses about only being in existence for 2 years. Get with it Texans. I want 4 Super Bowls appearances by next season...GOT IT!!!!
all trash talk aside, what you're basically saying, then, is that it is unfair to compare the two teams. and that's sort of the point I was making. never before has one game meant so much to one side and so little to the other. but hey. . . 19-10! Nomah!
