Reggie Bush should thank God every day that he gets to play with Brees, Colston, Joe Horn, and Deuce. If he'd have had the year that he did and the Saints would have been below .500, he'd already be raked over the coals. And if you watch the games you realize what a crock the "decoy" argument is. Most of his receptions, he's sitting out in the flats completely unguarded, or against a safety who has an under zone assignment. Taurean Henderson could have had the same year as Bush in the same system, and he wasn't drafted at all.
Jones Drew and Maroney are over 10 per recept and Addai is pretty close. They had you believing he was a combo of Faulk,LT and Sayers when really he's Eric Metcalf. Not bad, but if you tell me he would basically have 88 swing passes and not lining up and beating coverage, then whats the use. If you tell me he had 1 run over 20 yds, is it really the hype? If the oc or head coach would have been mike martz or someone who is used to lining up a bush type of player, cool, but the most recepts a denver rb has had is 30. We know what clinton portis can do on swing passess and even davis with the texans is or was a very good receiver out of the backfiled. The botom line is this team had and still have holes, but with a solid system and a better triggerman this team shoud score in the 20's. Even with avg talent they avg 105 ypg rushing. A team like kubiak wants will be closer to 130 per. I find it amazing that Mario played with that ailment the last 7 or 8 ball games which only gives him more respect in the locker room.
8.4 per reception is pretty decent for the running back position, what Reggie Bush averages. Since Bush does though line up some plays as a wideout and is considered explosive then that number really should be higher - considering there's probably 5-7 backs with 30 or more catches who are averaging that much or more, who primarily just catch out the backfield on dump offs and screens. Domanick (Davis) Williams gets that much on his catches and he surely doesn't line up in the slot running receiver routes upfield. I get annoyed from Vince Young backers always broadcasting and making their case and pleading and over support and squashing all the naysayers. It gets tiring really... BUT, when people come in knocking his 'lack of intellect' and "non education" and try to act his superior I can definitely understand why its come to be that way.....When Ivy League quarterbacks step in a take the league by storm and lead their team to a championship it'll be the first time. And the double standard is down lineman and fullbacks and other positions arent having their intellect looked at and judged, ironically. Who the hell ever considered football to be the choice sport of scholars?
I wanted Bush but we the Texans drafted Mario I cheered him on becase it has to be pretty hard to be put in the situation he was I don't care how much money they paid him. He played hurt pretty much half the season and he was still commanding double teams.I watch him each game and its pretty amazing for a guy all you hear is he is a bust and he will never be good it takes 2 and 3 guys to make sure he is blocked. There were some plays at the end of the game against the Browns where he was triple teamed and he still was able to beat it and cause the intentional grounding penalty at the end of the game.
yeah we should have taken mario first ..right...the same way we should have entered vietnam and the same way we should have chosen boselli all great moves.. I mean who would want a guy that pretty much single handedly led the Longhorns to the national championship and then won rookie of the year? apparently sometimes hindsight is 20 / 4000
I think you mean 20/10 or 20/5 (like a pilot)... But the number you put up is more like what they actually had at the time... Intense legal-blindness.
See, this is the position that the "Wonderlic" trio have thrust Mario into for years to come. Like it or not, his career will be forever linked to that of Vince Young & Reggie Bush and that's unfair to Mario. It's unfair because while Mario is indeed first round material, he should not have been the top pick in the entire draft. If, say he'd been picked in the 5th to 8th slot, we would not be having this discussion. Mario may eventually turn out to be the next Dwight Freeney or Reggie White but the fact that he was so raw and will need a couple of years to develop means that he was a bit of project and I just feel that you don't use the top pick on a project player. It's tremendously unfair to the player because being picked No. 1 comes with a built-in set of high expectations and that player will have a hard time living up them unless his is a superior talent. It certainly didn't help his cause that he was outplayed by a guy on his squad (Ryans) taken in the 2nd round who ended up winning DROY while Mario ended up as an afterthought. This is the exact argument being made here about Reggie Bush - that he did not produce enough to justify being picked so high and it also has to apply to Mario. In fact, the only guy that really justified his being picked high was Vince Young which also had the unfortunate side effect of heating up the expectations for Mario Williams especially when their respective teams played each other. Again, this is not meant to be a dig at Mario who gutted it out and played on one foot for a large part of the season. Rather, it is a commentary on the ineptitude of the Texans' organization itself, which placed him into this classic no-win situation either through their arrogance or incompetence. They failed miserably in their evaluation of David Carr which led them to pass over a prime QB draft class. Again, we are not having this discussion if they'd drafted Young, Leinart or Cutler. And they were absolutely clueless in their predraft evaluation of Vince Young which their snub has now developed into they type of PR nightmare that the Portland Trailblazers have been living with for 23 years now (and counting). At this point in time, there is simply nothing that can be done but to learn to live with the consequences of their 2006 draft decisions. One can only hope that over time the Houston fan's experience doesn't come to mirror that of the Trailblazer fan.
I am not sure that I would put not drafting VY in the same class as not drafting Jordan. I think we'll end up being much like the Rockets in the end. I would love to have had Jordan on my team, but I was more then happy with Dream. Mario played hurt for much of the season, and he played on a line with street FAs along side of him -which allowed all the focus to be placed on stopping him. He and the Texans will be fine. I went to Texas, I really like Vince, but at the time of the draft I was fine with the Texans keeping Carr and taking either Bush or MW. The best thing about hindsight is that it's always 20-20. Looking back taking VY would obviously have been a terrific choice based on this past season, but we need more time to tell if we truly made a mistake or not. If next season MW gets healthy and turns into the beast that many think we will be then I will still be fine with them drafting MW. I don't care how good the QB is, they all tend to make mistakes when under heavy pressure. MW, admittedly with some help, has the ability to be a guy that constantly puts heavy pressure on the QB. Additionally, he doesn't have a big down side either. The worst case with MW is they get him to add some size and move him inside to DT, basically creating another Stroud or Henderson.
See, we both agree here. For this to become akin to what happened with Portland, VY would have to lead the Titans to several NFL Championships and that is a dicey prospect at best. It's far far more difficult for one guy to have a Jordanesque impact in football due to the team nature of football. I feel that a lot of the VY backlash is due to a profound lack of faith in this organization. Simply put: Given their pitiful record of the past 5 years, people no longer believe in the Texans' ability to make the right decisions which is further inflamed by the fear that they passed on a very special player and a hometown one to boot. Unfortunately, it's will be Mario who will have to bear the brunt of this for some years to come. I think that the Mario pick and the David Carr decision aside, Kubiak does offer some tangible hope that this franchise has turned that perverbial corner and will cease being a joke. But only time will tell...
