Friday Factious Fun: Who Is The Second-Best Wide Receiver In Texans' History?
by Tim on Feb 17, 2012 10:47 AM CST
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PrintYou may have gotten word that your Houston Texans are set to begin a campaign celebrating their tenth anniversary as an on-field NFL franchise. I say/make up "on-field" because the Texans were technically born on October 6, 1999 when Houston was awarded the NFL's 32nd franchise, and we all know how important semantics are around these parts.
As we trudge through the interminable offseason, that ten year anniversary ballyhoo provides us with an excellent excuse to take a look back at the various players who have passed through the home locker room at Reliant Stadium since 2002. And, let's face it: Things are slow in the NFL world at the moment, so we've got to talk Texans wherever we can find it. Thus, we give you the first edition of this exercise after the jump.
There's no debate who the best wide receiver in Texans' history is. Andre Johnson is the alpha and the omega. Deciding which player is the beta in the proverbial alphabet of Texans' wide receivers is considerably tougher.
The floor is yours. Who do you think was the second greatest WR in the history of the Houston Texans? Note that the question is "wide receiver," so other positions or players who played said other positions, no matter how accomplished as receiving options, are not eligible.
If you're having trouble recalling your Corey Bradfords and your Jabbar Gaffneys, here's a link to PFR's page on the Texans. A click on a particular season should point you in the right direction to the roster that year, so analyze the options to your heart's content and then sound off in the Comments.
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KDub
He was sick when he made the greatest catch in Texans history.
TJ must throw 30 times for us to win.
by texanphil on Feb 17, 2012 10:53 AM CST via Android app reply actions
Does Arian Foster count?
I’m guessing he’s second in catches and yards per game.
LOL, just found a Dorin Dickerson Jersey that'll fit my kid, the other day in an old box.
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by professortex on Feb 17, 2012 8:37 PM CST up reply actions
and a Dominack Davis jersey
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by professortex on Feb 17, 2012 8:48 PM CST up reply actions
The Coke Machine is the top pass-catching FB of all time!
/apologies to Thor, but his hammer didn’t heal enough to get him there….
"All our lives we're taught to get in line. The ones who conform never discover." - Undrafted Free Agent and NFL Rushing Leader Arian Foster
JJ Watt is the top pass-catching DE of all time
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Grass is green
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Jason Allen
Has caught as many passes as Jacoby this year.. /rimshot
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Can he run a route? Seriously.
"All our lives we're taught to get in line. The ones who conform never discover." - Undrafted Free Agent and NFL Rushing Leader Arian Foster
Well, he can jump a route anyways.
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by professortex on Feb 17, 2012 8:40 PM CST up reply actions
Billy Miller
True arrogance has been displayed here- WestministerRavensfan or something
Hi My name is Jack, why don't you help me off?
Here's a question
What’s the more memorable catch?
Billy Miller’s first TD
Arian Foster’s one handed grab in the playoffs
Andre’s first post season TD
Walter’s division clinching TD at Cincinnati
I think as years go by, the post season catches will become less memorable. Walter’s will always be part of Houston lore, but I will forever remember Billy Miller’s touchdown.
I confess: I already don't remember it.
The Bradford TD in that game is more memorable to me, for some reason.
by Nashmeister on Feb 17, 2012 11:49 AM CST up reply actions
That Miller Catch is first
It was the first moment I remember as a Texans Fan. Preseason be damned, my memory isn’t the best but I think the starters played a good portion of that game.
The rest of my list in kinda chronological order.
“Reggie Bowl” against the 49ers, and Ben Emanual intercepting the ball. (I remember the name because he was a Clear Brook Alumni.)
Signing Mario before the draft, is now the second worst keep draft secret. As Luck being number one and the Colts admitting they would take him. (And if Manning does stay then who ever trades away their future for their future.)
Fosters Break out game against the Colts in 2010
QTip….
Walters TD will be remembered, and tagged along with the image of the Yates Family.
Andres Speech that night
The Playoff game is the second best moment. Only because nothing can beat the first real moment of Texans fandom joy.
JACOBY…..
So If trend follows after some terrible occurrence something good is sown and grown in its place.
True arrogance has been displayed here- WestministerRavensfan or something
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by WreckNTexan on Feb 17, 2012 12:58 PM CST up reply actions
04
There is a small group of CB alumni on this blog if I am not mistaken
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Hi My name is Jack, why don't you help me off?
c/o 2002
Wolverines represent!
by LouisianaTexan on Feb 18, 2012 2:14 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
where you part of the 0-for team?
True arrogance has been displayed here- WestministerRavensfan or something
Hi My name is Jack, why don't you help me off?
No
I had several friends that did though. Not a fun year for them
by LouisianaTexan on Feb 18, 2012 2:08 PM CST up reply actions
Sad times @ cb
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Hi My name is Jack, why don't you help me off?
Preseason?
The Cowboys game was our first regular season game… Or did I miss something?
by EastonFection on Feb 17, 2012 2:33 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Yeah, I was referring to the first regular season game
Perhaps it was not as memorable as I thought.
It was the Season Opener
My memory has been Hazed.
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Hi My name is Jack, why don't you help me off?
I would say Walter's division clincher in Cincinnati.
Although wouldn’t J.J. Watt’s pick six in the playoffs be a memorable catch too?
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by UprootedTexan on Feb 17, 2012 2:49 PM CST up reply actions
rack him!
"All our lives we're taught to get in line. The ones who conform never discover." - Undrafted Free Agent and NFL Rushing Leader Arian Foster
I don't think I'll ever forget Watt's pick-6
Man, that was as impressive an individual play as I’ve ever seen.
"Lord, beer me strength."
by TexansDC on Feb 17, 2012 3:01 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
It's on par with...
That Barry Sanders run (you know which one I’m talking about)
The Immaculate Reception
BeastQuake
And so on and so forth
"Lord, beer me strength."
I love re-watching the video of that play
There was a couple of second delay where everyone in the stadium had not yet quite realized what happened, and then the place exploded. It is awesome.
"Never underestimate the dumb with JJ" - Hugh Jarce
This one always gets me:
“I’m Andre Johnson. I win.”
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-Chief Inspector Dreyfus
This one's better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3czsdAbci7E
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by HTown24 on Feb 18, 2012 2:17 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Come on
The most memorable catch HAS to be Andre going Beast mode all over the Cardinals. That’s stuff of legends.
I'm a man!! I'm forty!!
I just posted it above...here it is again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3czsdAbci7E
Total Beast!
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Kidding aside: K-Dub.
PFR has his “Approximate Value” at 30. Jabar Gaffney is next among WRs with an AV of 18.
"How can an idiot be a policeman? Answer me that!"
-Chief Inspector Dreyfus
Obviously Walter
With Gaffney coming in third.
Then Jacoby.
/kidding
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I thought there would be no question about this
It’s obviously Owen Daniels
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If it’s stupid, but it works, it ain’t stupid
"Fuck em all. Go Texans."
More coffee for The Night Owl, please.
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by FreedomRide on Feb 17, 2012 12:19 PM CST up reply actions
no more women for The Night Owl
he’s cut off…
"All our lives we're taught to get in line. The ones who conform never discover." - Undrafted Free Agent and NFL Rushing Leader Arian Foster
There is a question when you add this little disclaimer
The floor is yours. Who do you think was the second greatest WR in the history of the Houston Texans? Note that the question is “wide receiver,” so other positions or players who played said other positions, no matter how accomplished as receiving options, are not eligible.
"Lord, beer me strength."
I wasn't the one who brought TEs into the discussion
Blame the guy who brought up Billy Miller. He was a TE
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by The Night Owl on Feb 17, 2012 1:46 PM CST up reply actions
Since we are limited to wide receivers, I would have to go with K-Dub
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by Foster Child on Feb 17, 2012 1:11 PM CST up reply actions
IIRC
it was a pass that was batted back to him.
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For a few games it was Andre Davis
But I have to go with K-dub, and by a pretty comfortable margin.
by JBal on Feb 17, 2012 12:39 PM CST via Android app reply actions
I'm going Corey Bradford
130 receptions, 1,992 receiving yards, and 18 TDs all with David Carr as his quarterback.
That’s incredible.
"Lord, beer me strength."
This is anecdotal, but I remember him dropping a lot of catchable long balls
Didn’t they used to call him 50/50?
by JBal on Feb 17, 2012 12:48 PM CST via Android app up reply actions
So in other words...
He was Jacoby-ing before Jacoby did.
/hipster receiver!
"Lord, beer me strength."
50/50
That was a good movie. Liked it!
"All our lives we're taught to get in line. The ones who conform never discover." - Undrafted Free Agent and NFL Rushing Leader Arian Foster
From playing old Madden games
It has to be Gafney. He almost always caught passes. (Bradford usually didn’t.)
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by Jonathan Fosburgh on Feb 17, 2012 12:42 PM CST reply actions
OT Question:
What is the schedule for the BRB Mock Draft?
"All our lives we're taught to get in line. The ones who conform never discover." - Undrafted Free Agent and NFL Rushing Leader Arian Foster
We're Going To Start Talking About That Soon
To see if people want to use the format we used last year (each team is represented by a member of the community) or the format we used before that (poll determines the pick).
In terms of when we’ll start, I’d guess in mid-March.
Ecstatic that Texans fandom no longer means that April is the highlight of my season...
Let's see, I'm guessing just first round, so 32 picks
I liked the BRB Member-FO setup last year.
One pick per day is 32 days.
We probably need about two weeks to set it all up, assigning the FOs and such.
Try to finish it up a week before the actual draft. Would it make sense to start getting it off the ground starting around March 1, setting up the FOs?
Would the BRB staffers be making the Texans pick?
"All our lives we're taught to get in line. The ones who conform never discover." - Undrafted Free Agent and NFL Rushing Leader Arian Foster
I like the poll
less work on an individual basis, and we don’t have to worry about anyone disappearing.
The Houston Texans: The Ron Paul of the NFL.
The nice thing about assigning FOs is that you can read all about it, but you don't have to do any work, which is what you want to do, evidently. No work, that is.
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We don't have one....
yet.
I'm a household name... at my house.
Michael Vick is the best throwing running back of all time.
My put your name on it prediction for the Housotn Texans.
10-6, with a first round playoff upset over either the Ravens or Steelers.
Walter
But that PFR link was like a walk down memory lane.
Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Chris Wragge interviewed me at the Expansion Draft. Actually, no it’s not.
Such a name dropper this one is
/seriously….10 years since the Expansion Draft? Time, like Sage, flies.
"Lord, beer me strength."
Andre Johnson
With #1 also being Andre Johnson
Free Earl. Occupy Reliant
by NewJerseyTexansFan on Feb 17, 2012 2:17 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
No one mentioned Dre' Davis... he did a good job when Dre went down the first time.
Doin stuff so nasty that you have to do it twice to confirm the level of nasty!!
Someone may have mentioned Andre Davis....
If nothing else his two back-to-back return TDs against the Jags are worth mentioning.
by JBal on Feb 18, 2012 8:25 AM CST via Android app up reply actions
Kevin Walter is the best WR in the NFL
he blocks better than any WR ever has in the history of football and has never dropped a pass ever. As we all know the only reason to even have a second WR is to block for the RB, and since he is the best blocking WR in the history of any form of football, NFL or otherwise, he certainly has to be the Texans’ second best WR ever only slightly behind Andre Johnson.
Dude let it go
We get it.
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by Mumford on Feb 17, 2012 3:58 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
I'm just waiting
for the dead horse meme’s to show up.
by Bobbythegreat on Feb 17, 2012 4:02 PM CST up reply actions
Can I just mention again that WR2 talent doesn't affect wins and losses?
It’s part of the whole “talented players are not all that important” thing that is all the rage these days.
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by Foster Child on Feb 17, 2012 4:58 PM CST up reply actions
Walter
No questionabout it.
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by distant_texans_fan on Feb 17, 2012 6:22 PM CST reply actions
I'd like for him
to receive a wide-load on his face.
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Michael Vick is the best throwing running back of all time.
My put your name on it prediction for the Housotn Texans.
10-6, with a first round playoff upset over either the Ravens or Steelers.
by taylorrohrman on Feb 17, 2012 9:17 PM CST up reply actions
From the most diseased invested human to live?
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by WreckNTexan on Feb 17, 2012 10:29 PM CST up reply actions
Bud Adams?
Shit, that’s too cruel.
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by UprootedTexan on Feb 18, 2012 12:49 AM CST up reply actions
Heh.
That’s who I immediately thought of, too.
"How can an idiot be a policeman? Answer me that!"
-Chief Inspector Dreyfus
Andre Johnson.
He plays both #1 and #2 spots when on the field.
Prediction: 11-5 AFC South champions.
This is kind of an odd question
sort of like how David Carr is the second best QB in Texans History.
Give him
another handful of starts and I would agree, but that’s my point, since the Texans haven’t really ever had 2 good WR’s or QB’s, it’s REALLY easy for anyone to become the Texans second best of all time.
by Bobbythegreat on Feb 18, 2012 10:28 AM CST up reply actions
Rosenfels > Carr.
Also, Drew Henson might have never stepped on a field for us, but he did net us a 3rd-rounder from the Cowboys via trade.
Then again, I suppose you could credit Carr with sucking so hard that he constantly delivered high draft picks to us.
by Nashmeister on Feb 18, 2012 12:41 AM CST up reply actions
Very True
Without Carr sucking and Boselli never setting foot on the field, it is a real possibility that AJ would never have been a Texan. Now that is a scary world…
/shudder
That is a scary thought, indeed.
Bless you, David Carr!
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-Chief Inspector Dreyfus
FTFY
Bless you, Super Bowl Champion David Carr!
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by Foster Child on Feb 20, 2012 7:56 PM CST up reply actions
Oh, gawd...
did you have to remind me?
/pukes
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-Chief Inspector Dreyfus
David Carr has as many Super Bowl rings as Peyton.
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by Jonathan Fosburgh on Feb 20, 2012 9:01 PM CST up reply actions
More than Dan Marino.
Dallas Cowboys, all hat and no cattle since 1996.
"Will it never be noon?" Duke of Orleans to the Dauphin and Constable of France every Sunday before the Texans play.
by Jonathan Fosburgh on Feb 20, 2012 9:17 PM CST up reply actions
And Joe Namath
A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.--Washington Irving
by Foster Child on Feb 20, 2012 10:07 PM CST up reply actions
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