The Texans Can't Afford To Be Picky

I do NOT like quinn for us..he looks too much like a 43 DE..the clips they show are the same ones vs his own NC teammates..he doesnt have the hips or feet from what i saw watching the combine..on the flip side, if we get prince move HIM to FS and leave quin as cb #1/2 (?) that would make us MUCH better..luv yalls work, been reading for sometime, let the bashing of my post begin

i meant for coverage concerns..he show OK ablity in drills from the pass rush perspective, but coverage wise was very weak

im not upset about not getting rodgers for the same reason as Tim,..never saw it happenin, same way i dont see us going after k jenkins, they way we didnt go after champ and prolly wont make a huge push for namdi..like in the past we only seem to go after the middle of the road free agents more then the BIG names

like our team, rogers has no D

Every year we hope Houston will do something significant in free agency and they never do. They refuse to sign any veterans because they fear they’re too old. But for 4 miilion its a travesty we didn’t even bring him in. I’m sick of overpaying second tier free agents. If we don’t go hard after some marquee players this off season I will have lost all faith. Its like they think they’re bellicheck in the fact they’ll do everything within. There are two problems with their logic, smithiak have never put together a solid draft. Their inability to find dlineman and secondary players is nothing short of atrocious. And second the pats haven’t won in 5 years because they have let too many players go who were key components in their superbowl teams (vrabel, samuel, seymour). Its hard to balance free agency and players within because even the patriots are struggling as of late. We are so far behind under the bar in team balance (free agents, youth, and veteran leadership) its deeply depressing.

I mean my God, have you ever thought about our last 4 drafts? We have gotten practically no one. I think of the breakdown like this:
O-lineman: #1 Winston – Casserly era. #2 Brown – Smithiak
Best WR: # 1 Andre – Casserly Era, WR #2: Walter – free agent
Best TE: #1 OD – Casserly Era, #2: Driessen – free agent
Best RB: #1 Arian – Smithiak. #2: Vacant
Best QB: #1 Schaub – Free agent, #2 Orlovsky – Crappy free agent
Best D-lineman: #1 Mario – Casserly #2: Smith – Free agent
Best LB: #1 Casserly era (let’s home he can come back healthy) #2: Cushing – Smithiak
Best CB: #1Quin: Smithiak #2 Vacant
Safety: #1 Pollard – free agent (out of necessity not planning) #2: Vacant
That gives us 3 players from their drafts that are even in the top 2 at their position and amongst those Quin is the best because of how bad everyone else is, and is suited as a #2 corner. The jury is still out on Cushing because he was merely mediocre after testing positive. And no one is going to confuse Duane Brown as a top to LT, he’s above average at best.

my question is this tho..what OLB do we draft..per j hollands that is the most important position on their 34 so with von miller being gone before we pick, r quinn having no cov skills, ayers not having that top end speed to be the rusher we need at that position and after that there is not a true top 11 talent out there ..plus a bigger drop off after them to the next tier of guys and more then likely we will be STARTING this guy..and dont try and sell me on a smith..he is a lesser ayers

thought he had bad feet and dont remember his #s…but ill go back and rewatch for both, especially moch…i know he had good #s but dont remember him in the drills

I was more wondering about their 40 time, bench press and general opinion of how they did in drills or how they’re predicted to do at their projected position. Ex: Robert Quinn, 40-4.82, Bench-24, drills-did well rushing the passer but is so bad at coverage there’s no way we would take him as an OLB. And just fyi…that was an example I have no idea what he ran-benched-projects as…I just want to be educated enough to know whether to be excited after our draft selection or, wait for it,….chug some bleach!

The only justification I can think of as to why they didn’t even make a run at Rogers or safety OJ Atogwe is because the cuts they made two weeks ago were in preparation to make a run at a marquis free agent or two after the CBA is in place.

like marquis daniels, the NBA player? ffs, learn to spell, or get a thesaurus. MARQUEE. its not hard.

that’s what I was looking for, even though its incomplete, just a quick look through and I was shocked by Marvin Austin! 4.9-38reps! Be a nice #2 eh? Would you rather have J Jones in the 1st Austin in the 2nd or Dareus in the 1st Hankerson in the 2nd? Or are both of those out the window?

pretty blazed myself…but im rewatching a ayers and WOW..forgot how great his feet were, was FAST in all drills

we need OLB more then any other position especially when all of us know that first pik will start week 1..so to grab at jones or prince or b harris..its just not that NEED pik we always do..we draft the best player at the biggest NEED..so i think it will happen that if von miller is gone a ayers will end up being the pik..and it wont be a bad one