BREAKING NEWS: Apostrophe Davis Stays With Houston

by Tim on Feb 28, 2008 3:08 PM CST in News

No word on terms yet, but John McClain is reporting that your Houston Texans have re-signed Apostrophe Davis. I'm very interested to see how much guaranteed dough Davis received, but for now I'll simply be content that the team agreed to a deal with him. Unless the team mortgaged the Astrodome for him, this should be considered an extraordinarily good day.

Update [2008-2-28 17:21:36 by Tim]: The deal is apparently for four (4) years and $16,000,000.00, and Apostrophe allegedly left money on the table by spurning Oakland. I'm still curious as to the amount of money guaranteed in the contract, but my gut reaction is that this is palatable. Remember--the Texans lopped an estimated $8,000,000.00 off next year's books by waiving four (4) veterans last week, so depending on the number of guaranteed dollars in Apostrophe's deal, this may be able to be viewed as a contractual wash. Nice work, Rick Smith.

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Freakin Awesome.

by bullpen116 on Feb 28, 2008 3:41 PM CST reply actions

Ditto

We can be critical of the draft picks, but in the end we always support the new Texan.

by Shake on Feb 28, 2008 4:34 PM CST up reply actions

Interesting

I'm glad we didn't pay 5 a year for him, but let's consider this:

"In the end, he decided to stay with the Texans and hope to start on the other side of star receiver Andre Johnson".

Now, given that K-Dubs just had a pretty awesome season... do you keep Andre Davis in the same role he played last season, or do you give him the #2 job? I'm a big supporter of having a solid possession guy like K-Dubs in there on every down, but there's no question that he just can't stretch the field like apostrophe can.

I mean, if you're paying a guy 4 million a year (granted, he'll be returning kicks), can you afford to only have him on the field during with three-receiver sets?

I really don't have an answer.

by Nashmeister on Feb 28, 2008 5:26 PM CST reply actions

Re: Interesting

I wish the me from a year ago could see me now. What I'm about to write would blow his mind:

Kevin Walter has shown he's a totally legitimate No. 2 WR, and he absolutely deserves to continue in that role.

I agree that the Texans would be paying a whole lot of money for a No. 3 WR and KR, but I don't think that Apostrophe is a better option at WR No. 2 than Walter.

Looking forward to a day when being a Texans fan doesn't mean that April is the highlight of my season...

by Tim on Feb 28, 2008 5:30 PM CST up reply actions

Kube's can work his Magic

Now that Kube's understands what he has in his receiving core, I've got to believe he's going to come up with some Killer three wide sets. I see K-dub as being an awesome Slot Receiver in the mold of Wes Welker and all the great White Slot receivers of our generation. But if you've got dre and apostrophe runing deep posts on the outside and k-dub going across the middle who do slide the coverage too? who gets doubled? I just get a big fucking grin thinking about it. Not only that but the texans offense should be pretty sweet on Madden next year.

by bullpen116 on Feb 29, 2008 1:02 PM CST up reply actions

I'm happy

Dude can catch and he's got great straight line speed. We all remember what he did against TB/Jax in the return game... but what has me excited is what he was able to do w/ A.J. out.
Remember that first Tenn game when he caught that bomb from Sage..? To take from Tyler, Freakin Awesome. His ypc was among the leagues leaders. (I just looked it up he was ranked 4th among recievers w/ 20+ receptions).

With AJ, Davis, K-Dub, and OD - we will have one of the most consistant/dependable - if not flashy - recieving corps in the league.

I'm haaappy happy.

To DE or not to DE... that is the question.

by SOLIS on Feb 28, 2008 5:30 PM CST reply actions

@happy

Yea, I'm happy as well. WR is not an area we have to address, and we have a good core group that have worked well with our QB's. I think he has the potential to do better next year. And it's nice to have someone electric on the field to keep me on the edge of my seat spilling the beverage of choice as he runs for stupid yards +.

by 1Texan on Feb 29, 2008 10:24 AM CST up reply actions

Not me

I think this is a really bad deal. I love what Apostrophe did for the Texans last season and I wish we could secure his presence here, but not at that kinda $$. That is mad money, and we have many more positions to fill.

by knave64 on Feb 28, 2008 10:29 PM CST reply actions

re: Davis

I like that we re-signed him, but he ABSOLUTELY has to play even better than he did last year to justify what we just paid him.

4 mil a year for a 3rd (at best) wideout and kick returner is a LOT of jack.

That said - I think Davis is a high character guy, and I think he will continue to play at a high level.

by HoustonDiehards on Feb 28, 2008 10:40 PM CST reply actions

Proven commodity

Davis played a lot better than you're giving him credit for bro. He's your prototypical WR2. He can stretch the field and can fill in for AJ if (heaven forbid) he goes down. He's not T.J. Housmanwhateverthehell, but he's a pretty special player in his own right.

I agree that I would have like to have seen the entire deal closer to the 9-10 mil mark over 3 years instead of 16 over 4, I'm sure the front office knows what it is doing.

To DE or not to DE... that is the question.

by SOLIS on Feb 29, 2008 2:44 PM CST up reply actions

Ya know

I think that more I think about it, this will be a big deal in the coming year. I think if they went and got him for the big bucks, they intend to use him. This could be real big and exciting as a fan. God bless Texas! uh...fyi...Dallas is southern Oklahoma.

by 1Texan on Feb 29, 2008 7:08 PM CST reply actions