BREAKING NEWS: Quinn Gray To Sign With Texans

My initial guess was that they need more QBs for camp. They had 5 going into camp last year. Quinn would make 4 on the roster, I believe.  His salary makes it clear that he isn't in great demand. So the three QBs scenario makes sense. Especially when you realize BVP would have been the starter if Sage had gone down.


A guy on another message board who seems to have a lot of insight into the Texans organization suggests that Quinn is trade-bait for down the road a bit (i.e., to be dealt to a desperate team during training camp). I could also see them hanging onto Sage until they know whether Quinn can play in this system. [Hello Vikings, it's July and your QB situation still sucks. Coach Childress, how is your job security after two years of little progress? How about Sage for a #2 now?]

Why did we spend nine million (total contract, not guaranteed) on Cleo Lemon when we could pay him 650K for him to be a clipboard holder?

What does Quinn know about the Texans QB situation that we don't?

How does Quinn's Agent still have a job?  He could have re-signed with the Jaguars for far more than this and be just as close to a starting job.  It seems like someone thought that Gray would be in higher demand...

Anyhow, you're getting a smart backup quarterback that can come in if you need him and win games.  Jacksonville went 3 and 1 with Gray last season, and only one of those was a complete "run the ball to death" game (Tampa Bay).  I'll miss him, but I'm full of questions as to how this played out.

Of course, I hate to see the guy go to a Division Rival, but I'd assume that Matt is "the guy" in Houston...right?

-Chris

Thanks for the props, Tim.  It's no big thing... I simply chose the Texans over spending time with my family, or celebrating Easter, even in the off-season.

Yeah, I've got issues.

 

We may lose some leverage in the trade with Minnesota, but I might be willing to accept that.  If Gray can play anywhere near the level of Sage, then I'm perfectly okay with getting a third round pick for Sage.

What exactly was the situation in J-Ville?  I get the sense that maybe Gray and Coach JDR didn't see eye to eye or maybe he had a problem with his a few of his former teammates..?  

It's all speculation, but the comments from the Jags faithful and Gray unabashedly stating his desire to be a Texan, make it seem as if he wants to come to Houston so he can go at J-Ville twice a year, even if its in a periphery role.  

A scorned QB maybe?

He could be the water boy and it would be a good deal for us. I mean seriously, the league minimum? The guy's no Sage Rosenfels, but he's not that big of a drop off either. It's good for us but something just doesn't seem right. What I don't understand is how can we get offered a 3rd round pick for Sage, yet Quinn has to take league min salary to sign as a number three QB? Doesn't the value there just seem skewed? I gotta hop on board the conspiracy bandwagon here and think that his agent D. Rosenhaus knows something we don't and has advised Q that he will be the number two with a chance at some pt given the Schaubs propensity for getting hurt last year.

I'm still knocked back by the fact that the deal was brokered by the shark.  Something about the deal seems fishy (pun totally intended).

<Cue the music from Jaws> "Da dant, Da dant, Da dant..."

"10 O'Clock and all is well..."  Or quiet, on the trade front anyway.

I scoured the Vikings blogosphere; neither their city's newspapers nor their blogging fanbase has made mention of any trade talks involving Sage.  

If something is in the works, their network of brodcasters is either oblivious or keeping mum.

The Kubemiester is selling the notion that he intends to carry all three quarterbacks all year long.  

Coach Kubiak on trading Sage:
"I know what people are saying, but signing Quinn has absolutely nothing to do with it. I've been a two-quarterback type of guy, but what happened to us last season scared the heck out of me, and I don't want to go through that again."

I don't know if I necessarily buy idea that he's seen the error of his ways -- that he's a changed man -- that he's seen the light.  My guess is that he still tries to make the team better in another area if the right opportunity presents itself.  Tyler may have been on to something with his draftday premonition.

Nonetheless, it can all be viewed as a win-win.  If someone makes an unrefusable offer for Sage - then we reap the rewards.  If we have to keep all three all year - then the worst that happened is that we spent slightly over the league minimum for a proven backup.  Not a shabby prospect either.  Keepin him is like shelling out an extra 3 bucks a pay period to add dental coverage to your health insurance.  It's comes cheap and its there if you need it.