Look guys, the resume for Rex no matter how you slice it is better than for Dan O, Rex had ok, but not horrible numbers in and Run, D dominated Chi town land. I like his reads much better than Dan, maybe better than Schaub, I would like to see Schaub come back as quick as Dan did. Save the cap space and get rid of Dan O and and pay Ryans!

Looks like I should have waited another 5 minutes before I wrote this:

Kubiak just announced after practice that Rex Grossman will be the #2 quarterback vs. the Jets

Per Nick Scurfield

I would expect a longtime professional QB who’s played in the Super Bowl to beat up on the other team’s scrubs. Grossman’s performance earned him a roster spot. That tells you where he stood regarding Kubiak’s dog house. That Rex jumped all the way to backup is very promising. I agree that Rex has more ability than Orlovsky. It’ll let me rest slightly more assured every time Schaub runs out of bounds untouched.

Orlovsky had all preseason to show he was capable of being even moderately competent. Instead, he was counting his $9M (and change).

Grossman is a slightly above mediocre QB, yes, but he could be very very solid as a backup given that he won’t have a deer-in-headlights look to him if he has to play extended time. Plus, he’s the Sex Cannon, dammit!

Look for Rexy the 4th preseason game was the 2nd biggest game of his career. He was barely picked up for the vet min, and knew that if he didn’t do well in the game he would be out of football forever! That is big pressure, how many of you have had 2 hours of work to determin your career? And he came up big, great throwing, good decisions, and not ints. That says alot about the guy. Dan keeps makeing the “same mistakes” this wasn’t even close.

Fuck Jared Allen.

then we weren’t doing anything anyway.

Grossman got the no. 2 nod from Kubiak because he chunked it last Friday is a pure copout and to fall back on the cliche that he got beat out by Orlovsky is further insult. That is not what happened here. The guy went out there and hit receivers, he commanded the offense and he didn’t make mistakes. To top it off, he has been watched in the game and in practices by one of the best QB minds in the business, in Kubiak, and he says he is the guy! I don’t care what anyone said back in June! This is September and the season starts in less than a week. Dang anyone that can’t find some kind of fan loyalty to be happy about this. The people who keep saying, “I don’t like it, but I hope it works out.” Ha! Man, you always leave yourself an out, is all I can say…

for right now. Grossman just has more experience in games than Dan-O. But in the long run Dan-O will be a much better choice for #2 QB.

This is the kind of offense that every QB could ask for. He never had anything close to this in Chicago. There, the best he had to throw to was Bernard Berrian. Here, all he has to do is be the caretaker when things are working. And, when the team needs a boost, who would you rather be airing it out to, Andre Johnson or Mark Bradley?

Orlovsky is wayyyyyyyyy better

..but I don’t think he ever gave up a dumb-ass safety-sack by going out of the back of the endzone on a roll out…….

but I think he is as good at this point in his career as he is ever going to be, which is to say, not very good. I think Dan O has a lot more upside and will ultimately justify the money we threw at him. Rexy is going to remind us all of Sage – one week he’ll pass for 400 yards and 3 TDs and the next week he’ll post a 0.0 passer rating and the morgue will fill up with Texans fans who died of alcohol poisoning.

I am pretty sure we will see Dan O next year. I am equally sure we will not see Rexy.

Is that Dan Orlovsky, he of the big free agent contract, stayed healthy throughout the preseason and yet failed to demonstrate enough progress to beat out Rex Grossman, who was sidelined for the vast majority of the preseason with an injury and was never expected to rise about No. 3 on the depth chart.

When you factor in that Kubes never announced that there was an open competition for the backup gig, it makes this announcement even more disheartening (for Orlovsky backers).

My gut tells me that if Schaub goes down, the Texans will scour the waiver wire for a competent backup . . . so the point is probably moot, anyway.