Smith doesn't do jack in the off season as far as making shrewd trades or free agent acquisitions. He's made a very few and there has been a ton of guys that could have been had in pretty much every off season to fill certain holes that we've had where certain free agents would have filled in nicely. He's extremely conservative and pretty much strictly wants to build through the draft. Now I don't know if that's because Mcnair won't let him do anything in the off season and his hands are tied where that is concerned, but the fact remains that Smith hardly does a thing.
I won't say this is completely true. We've gotten several players through free agency. Kevin Bentley, Antonio Smith, Joel Dressen, Kevin Walter, Vonta Leach, Bernard Pollard, Wade Smith, Suan Cody.... I think that is all of the ones who have contributed, there may be more.
We don't get the high profile guys you (& several others) would like us to get. Maybe McNair is cheap (but considering the money he has spent, I find that hard to believ).... Oh yeah, that Schaub guy didn't come cheap. But I think there may be another reason we don't chase the high profile names.... like, they usually chase the money, and no matter what we offer, they'll just take that to another team and ask them to match, or come close. Since that has happened a few times in the past, I have to assume that is the main reason.
Our secondary of this season is just another example of that, because all off season long I said over and over that the Texans needed to get some help in the secondary and they did nothing and handicapped themselves. They did the same thing the off season before last and our secondary has gradually gotten worse and worse.
Done nothing??
I don't know that we're worse than we were last year. I know the stats say that we are, but the W-L says different. In the games when our offense was able to score.. we won.
The only guy we got rid of that could make another team's roster was Dunta. It's a hard sell for me to believe Dunta would have made this team better. I remember a very similar situation in 2006 where we were in the running for worse secondary ever. Dunta was part of that team. We're younger now, & I think we are more talented.
On the other hand Morey routinely rapes teams on trades and gets the better end of the deal on them. The NBA draft is more of a crap shoot than it's ever been and he's made some damn good draft picks as well. He's kept this team in a pretty good financial situation as well, and I loved how he handled Tracy Mcgrady. He was stern and handled it like a smart professional where many other GM's would have caved.
I've got no beef with Morey... if you want to believe the rockets are a better franchise than the Texans..... you go with that. IMO..... neither franchise has a lot to brag about right now. Both have proven to be good enough to get your hopes up, & that's about it.
