He likes tight windows, has great pocket awareness, and can evade the rush. His arm strength is considered elite. His NFL comparison IMO is Andrew Luck.
Rather pick up Clowney if we get the first pick then reach on these QBs IMO none of them our first pick worthy
Bridgewater is. I think he will be as good as Andrew Luck. If he goes number one(assuming we win one of our remaining games), than you take Clowney.
Only thing that could possibly make me dislike Kubiak more as a coach is if he screws up our draft position by winning meaningless games.
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Seeing as Kubiak values his win-loss resume a whole lot more than he does a draft that he won't be around to take part in........
The flipside of the AAC argument is that he also doesn't necessarily play with an elite line or elite receivers either. Some guys that play on elite teams also have superior talent helping them out (Manziel and McCarron's O-lines, for example) that can distort how good the QB himself really is.
Maybe the Texans should trade out of the first pick and drop back to 5-7 and obtain additional picks (like two 2nds and a 3rd round pick). Draft the best available defensive player with the first pick. Draft a QB in the 2nd or 3rd. There are QBs in this draft that can be had in the later rounds that may be just as good if not better than the guys going early. Nick Foles was a 3rd round pick and he's playing just as well if not better than RG3 and Andrew Luck. And go out and pay a veteran tackle.
Why ever draft anyone at all then in the first few rounds? There could always be players in the 3rd or 4th or 6th rounds that turn out better than the people drafted at the top, at any position.
[QUOTEor;8468783]Why ever draft anyone at all then in the first few rounds? There could always be players in the 3rd or 4th or 6th rounds that turn out better than the people drafted at the top, at any position.[/QUOTE] I have no answer to that question when I'm specially speaking of the situation the Texans are in with my belief that there are good QBs that will be available in later rounds just like the draft with Wilson and Foles... Take a look around the league at the 1st and 2nd year QBs and you will see it's the guys who went in the later rounds are the ones excelling. Plus I believe there are defensive players who are THE BEST PLAYERS AVAILABLE that could be taken ahead of the QBs with the 1st pick that the Texans could move back to the 5th-7th pick to get one. And the Texans could also use those extra picks they would get from moving out of the top spot.
only 4 of them you listed have franchize potential Bridgewater Boyd McCaron Murray I definitely see Mariota and JF being busts
Mariota not looking great last week(Arizona) or so far this week(Oregon State). For whatever that's worth. On FOXSports1 if you want to watch.
Bridgewater is a stud. He is a pure pocket passer who can also extend plays with his feet. Basically another andrew luck. He's the only franchise QB i see coming out of this draft.
What you're suggesting, though, is that the Texans rely on being stupid and mis-evaluating players. If they feel Bridgewater is the best QB but instead pick a QB later in the draft and hope he turns out just as good, then they are basically relying on their own evaluation process being wrong and just hoping to get lucky. I agree with you if the Texans evaluate all the QBs and decide that the one universally ranked 5th is the best one out there and simply that no one else seems it - but that seems fairly unlikely. Someone posted earlier all the QBs drafted in the 2nd round or later over the last 13 years, and outside of the really young ones from last year, Matt Schaub is the most successful non-1st-rounder. The idea that it's easy to find QBs later in the draft doesn't really hold true. It requires looking at the 1 or 2 exceptions rather than the massive number of failures.
The difference is Luck is a big guy and can take hits. He outweighs Bridgewater by 40+ lbs. Gotta be durable in the NFL.
