BREAKING NEWS: Glover Quin Signs Contract

Go Quin…Very excited to have him on…Looking forward to having Bennett, Quin, and Molden as our big 3 CB’s for years to come! (Hopefully Mccain too!) (And Barber and Nolan? as our future safeties!)

I would like it more if they converted him to safety, since he has the size and strength for it, and the way they talked about him in minicamp makes him sound like a ballhawk. Hopefully they are just talking about keeping him at corner to make a point to Dunta or something.

I mean, the guy’s not going to get a long term contract this year. We know that. All that’s left is his performance. Will he show up and play or skip games and lose money? Will he skip out on training camp, which I think he needs to attend to establish and hone his own game skills before the season, or will he just show up one week before game day on Week 1 of the regular season? Will he play like an elite, good, average or poor cornerback? To me, that’s all that’s left to consider about DRob. DRob is able to talk to other teams, but no team will pay the hefty price of two 1st round picks for him and pay him such an extravagant salary that the Texans wouldn’t match.

That said, I hope Glover Quin keeps up the good work!

But since Dunta, the player, was mentioned and he is a big topic…the player needs to think of business and it is not good business to sit out, unless…unless he is still feeling the effects of his injury and feels he needs more time to fully recover. So, based on that assumption, if he is healthy, I expect the player to show for all pre-season workouts and games. If he is not healthy, I expect the player to use that time as long as it is not costing him money and sit out. When it comes to game time in the regular season and it will start to impact his wallet, I think we will see the player in uniform and on the field…that is, if the coaches have a spot for him.

But this entire stuation is just business. Agree with the player’s tactics or not, he has that right. Technically he does not have a contract right now, so he shouldn’t be with the team when they practice. Sure, he should have signed the really good offer that was originally made by the Texans, and that was a bad decision at the time. But, perhaps, where he is now, as he can’t go and undo what happened in the past because certain contractual deadlines have come and gone, this is the best move for him…threatening to hold out.

However, I believe it is just a threat and he will not actually hold out.

Now, YES, he should sign the franchise offer, and, YES, he has time to hold off doing that, before he suffers any monetary consequence, and YES, the team is moving forward as they should, as if he will never come back, but NO, I don’t expect him to come back until EITHER, he gets his wish that the Texans agree not to franchise him next year OR his pocketbook is hit for nonperformance by him holding out.

So, the pivotal question that needs to be answered between now and when the player can incur loss of income from holding out, is: Will the Texans agree not to franchise the player next year? If I were the Texans, my answer would be NO! If they do that, they give away their leverage in the free agent situation. If they can not franchise the player, the player becomes an Unrestricted Free Agent. Now the player can sign a contract with any other team and the Texans lose the player with NO compensation. Why would they do that if they don’t have to? And, they don’t have to.

So, my prediction: Depending on what kind of idiotic advice the player is getting from his agent, this may go down to just before the first game, but no further. The Texans won’t promise not to franchise him. The player signs the franchise tender. At the end of the season, maybe we will be doing this all over again.