While his release is hardly surprising and there would have been real questions about his ability to fit into a ZBS even if he’d been healthy, I’m still sad to see him go. We’ll always wonder “what if” about Spencer. Here’s hoping he and Abbate (another sentimental favorite) catch on somewhere.

heartbreaking. i imagine every single texans fan was rooting for him.

i guess the silver lining is that the texans have depth enough to part ways with Big Nasty.

On the bright side, he got a free education and a very nice salary for 3 years.

But this is probably one of the saddest chapters in the organization’s short history. I hope he knows that thousands of people are wishing the best for him right now.

is that he catches on with a team OUTSIDE the AFC South.

So I was trolling around at on the Scout.com message boards (where the story first broke) and Adam Caplan, the story breaker, chimes in with the following:

I think the move is more with him not wanting to play RG than being injured. He’s healthy enough to play apparently.

Adam Caplan
scout.com Senior NFL Reporter

To which I replied:

Your comment is suprising considering how long its taken him to come back. He was handled with kid gloves during the OTAs because he wasn’t ready to go full speed.

Where did you learn about his unwillingness to play RG? I’m curious to find out, because the over arching theme within the fanbase is one of outright symphathy for the kid. If his exit is due to his own disatisfaction with playing guard, then that would definitely change things.

Robb over at Scout.com is trying to get clarification. I’ll update yall as soon as I find out.

it’s the Tony Boselli Effect: a potential o-line building block never (practically) touches the field. Here’s a peice of ESPN’s insider scouting report on Chuck:

As a drive blocker he has a lot of natural power and can root opponents off the line. He has a huge upside in that his negatives can, for the most part, be coached out of him. His long arms allow him to control his opponent before the opponent is able to get into his body and shed the block. He has a ways to go, but with natural maturation he should be a cornerstone left OT in Houston for a long time.

Best of luck man, and if you do sign with another team…STAY OUT OF THE AFC SOUTH (please)

If this was truly in response to his injury not healing properly, I don’t think we’ll see another team sign him. If that does happen, best of luck to him. If not, I’d imagine we’d ask him to hang around houston just in case he’s able to make it back completely, with no pain.
His issues with moving to RG sound abit like speculation to me, but who knows? It might just be a case where he just wasn’t ever going to be nimble enough to play in the ZBS, and that’s where the displeasure for RG came from. Obviously, we’ll all stay tuned…

So long Barbero….but if it makes you feel any better, many years ago on the King ranch, they had a horse that stepped on a steel spike and it went through the soft part of the hoof. They were going to put him down, but ended up making a special horse shoe to hold the hoof together, and it went on to win the triple crown. Press called it the club footed comet, or something like that. What.. this isn’t the equestrian web site? And I had a feeling Abbate was about gone. You got to produce or ol’ Kubes will let you go.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/fb/texansfront/5904142.html

is there a reason we get no trade value for anyone? We just cut ‘em and let other teams pick em up…like Carr, Spencer, Mckinney…
Splain’ Ricky…

what happened to the old UPDATE format, where it told us when you posted the new info right down to the second.

[UPDATE posted by Tim at 13:22:06]

I need that kind of exacting detail!

There was no reason for Carolina to try and trade for him. With the 80 man roster limit everyone knew that a decision had to be made in the next few days. If the Texans don’t cut him then they are probably not interested in trading him. If Carolina was really interested there was no reason to not wait it out, and try and trade for him once camp opens.

If Smith traded for a guy who has been injured for two years, may still not be able to play right away, AND had a good chance of getting cut anyway what would the reaction around here be?

I was sad to hear this news. I was even more dissapointed to find out MNF tickets are F’n impossible to get ahold of without paying twice the face value. Things began to look up though after I found some tickets for the Titans on Ticketsnow and the price was only marked up five bucks over face value. I finally get to Boo Vince in person instead of yelling at my TV.