That's cool dude, keep up the name calling. We all know Schaub sucks, but there is no reason to call a man something like that unless they commited some sort of crime. Get over it, if the Texans mean so much to you that you resort to name calling than you got physiological problems. And for all of you cfers: the guys to blame are rick smith, Kubiak, Dennison for giving Schaub a contract and playing time.
Thanks for the average to above-average QB play, Schaub. No, it's not your fault the Texans coaches think you're SB worthy QB, unless you hypnotized them into that belief. It's not your fault you dropped off the cliff and now sucks big time. But overall, I truly, TRULY appreciate your incredible decline in performance at historical levels, which led to the firing of Kubiak. I don't know what the future brings. Perhaps we get the next Schiano. But perhaps we get the next Belichek. Either way, at least there's a chance we escape our current mediocrity predicament. And all because of you.
Schaub is the ultimate team player: He guided us to a loss that guaranteed we can pick his replacement.
Guys why can't we have persuasive/debatable discussions without resorting to ****ing childish insults and personal shots? Damn.
Whay if? I cant believe i am even suggesting this, but what if say O'Brien comes in and says i can fix schaub. So we keep Schaub and trade down and get the talent we desperately need. I have never been a schaub supporter BUT what if? Ya just never know what a new coach may think is best for the team going forward.
Because too many people decide to live vicariously through their sports teams and their players. Basically those people are pathetic losers.
As unbelievable as it may seem, Schaub might end up here next year. He should be gone, but the smartest move financially might be to keep him. Going to be interesting seeing how they handle this.
^ I think you may be right. People are automatically writing him off as not being here but financially, it's hard to just cut bait with him at this point. True, he will be an overpaid backup (assuming Bridgewater is selected) but at least he would be providing a role on the team as opposed to dead money. Then again, the psychological benefit of cutting ties may outweigh the cap hit.
It is one of the benefits of the new rookie salary scale. If they keep Schaub, they'll have a lot of money invested in the QB position, but not as much as if they had to give Bridgewater $100MM guaranteed. It's an interesting scenario, and we know that today's NFL is all about maximizing and managing your cap for those 53 slots. Sometimes the prudent thing isn't always the best PR move.
Sports are an outlet for the strong emotions we are evolved to have, domination with in a clan, survival and death, warfare. It's a fairly harmless way to invest drama into an ever more societally restrained and mundane average life. You can express deep love or blinding hate for athletes and it's acceptable behavior. The hate is no big deal, you don't see anybody whacking sports celebrities.
He helped lead us to our most successful seasons. You got to appreciate him for that. It's not like he quit on the team or something like that. He just stunk it up. **** happens, you move on
If you look at guys making 3-4 million at QB, most of them would be worse than Schaub as backups. Matt Hasselbeck, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Kyle Orton, Matt Cassell, Matt Moore, etc. If we hold onto him one more year as a backup and cut him in 2014, we save 10 million, as opposed to the 4 million we save cutting him this year. The fans (and Schaub) may not like it, but it might be the best thing for the franchise.
After thinking about it...possibly and the mgmt may think this exact very thought. If you do want to keep Schaub as an expensive back up, kinda like Orton for Romo...fine, but he better not be starting on opening day in September!
If management wants to ride with TJ, Keenum and whomever we draft next year, I'm totally fine with that too. The 4 million saved from Schaub can be applied to another position. I have no idea who I'd use it on, though.
Since we are obviously not going to contend next year, I say ride out another season with Schaub and have a QB battle between Schaub and whoever we draft. A little controversy/real competition couldn't be bad. At that point you may be able to re sign him to a backup QB role. He'd be better than most backup QB's. I'm not sold on this idea but who knows.
