http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-recovery-remains-on-track-for-training-camp/
Says he is on schedule.
Says he is on schedule.
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“I mean, sitting here on April 16, it’s hard for me to say when I will be [ready],” Schaub said. “I mean, after the screws came out this past week, it’s hard for me to tell you a certain date or June or something like that. All I know is come time for training camp, I’m going to be 100 percent ready to go and that’s all that really matters, in my mind.”
If Schaub can’t participate in the upcoming OTAs, T.J. Yates presumably will get the bulk of the practice reps. Which will make him better prepared in the event of further injury to Schaub.
I'll be his wife
I'll be his wife won't be happy when she finds out he had his hardware removed...
/obligatory
Seems like some double talk is going on.
Hard to say when you'll be ready, but you know you'll be 100% by training camp? Huh?
I think he's just being hopeful, which he should be.
Training camp started on July 31st last year. He is saying that he doesnt know specifically when he will be ready, but that it will be by TC.
I'll bet his wife won't be happy when she finds out he had his hardware removed...
/obligatory
I could care less how slow he runs a bootleg as long as he continues to fake the defense out of their Nikes. Matt runs one of the most effective bootlegs I've seen. Now if we just had someone on other side to open the field a bit more......Has he ever been 100%??
I've seen people run from slow motion explosions in action movies faster than he does a bootleg in real time.
I'll bet his wife won't be happy when she finds out he had his hardware removed...
/obligatory
I could care less how slow he runs a bootleg as long as he continues to fake the defense out of their Nikes. Matt runs one of the most effective bootlegs I've seen.
I still don't believe that Schaub will be 100% when he comes back from this, and I also don't believe he'll be starting game one of the regular season. I have a distinct feeling we'd all better get used to Yates.
I could care less how slow he runs a bootleg as long as he continues to fake the defense out of their Nikes. Matt runs one of the most effective bootlegs I've seen. Now if we just had someone on other side to open the field a bit more......
I'll bet his wife won't be happy when she finds out he had his hardware removed...
/obligatory
Has he ever been 100%??
Here's a link to the post where CloakNNNdagger explained the hardware and timeframe for removal.
http://www.texanstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=90008&highlight=schaub+lisfranc&page=4
Re-reading it doesn't make me feel any better.
I've been extremely skeptical of the FO's noise regarding how definite Schaub's recovery is for week 1 next season.
The guy has been walking round with his leg held together with more rebar than your average skyscraper and yet all we've heard out of the FO has been tales of him wanting to play golf and being right on track etc.
I'm no medical expert, but I find it hard to believe that they could be sure how he's going to cope and recover before this point, nows when he begins the real healing. The dude has got a different geometry now, its like changing the suspension setup on your car, he's going to have to relearn the finer points of his balance etc to be able to throw the ball accurately.
I still don't believe that Schaub will be 100% when he comes back from this, and I also don't believe he'll be starting game one of the regular season. I have a distinct feeling we'd all better get used to Yates.
Hey ArlingtonTexan, I'm just curious . . . did you mispell Schaub's name accidentally, or was that by design as a form of protest?
This.
Although I think he'll be close to 100% by mid-season as long as he's not rushed back into action too soon.
I'm hoping that Yates will be much better after getting the TC reps under his belt. I expect him to be. A couple of days ago, I went back and re-watched the Falcons game. The kid's got a chance to be special. I'd just prefer to have him backing up Schaub for a year or two before he really had to be put to the test. I expect him to be our game 1 starter and start at least 3-4 games.
I agree.
Texans would be foolish to rush him back onto the field. Even the idea of him being at training camp and trying to do too much in camp is scary. It would be the Texans fault if they rushed him back and he re-injured it. The Texans are the final decision makers on when a player returns, and they have an obligation to the team and to the player to NOT rush him back onto the field too early.
TJ can hold down the fort for the first half of the season, let Schaub come in midway and see what he can do...this is fair to everyone, IMO: (1) Schaub needs a full year from the time of the injury, (2) TJ will have had a full camp and benefit of playing in high pressure games back in 2011, and (3) The halfway point of the 2012 season gives us the opportunity to see if Schaub can play QB for a full game or heck, even if it's just for 1 quarter of football.
I don't see why we can't have our cake and eat it too. Play TJ, when the midway point of the season gets here we activate Schaub and play him sparingly in perhaps one quarter of play or garbage time when we're blowing out the opponent in the 4th quarter...and 99% of those plays will be handoffs or safe pass plays out of the shotgun with max protection for Schaub. This gives the texans some film to study to make a decision on Schaub's contract.
Win-win, IMO.
Exactly. This isn't the option. It isn't him threatening to run. Schaub's bootlegs work because (Foster and the running game is good should be #1 but it was effective when we had an ineffective running game) (a) he has one of the best play fakes around and (b) because he is diligent and doesn't just stand there on actual running plays - he will often roll out after handing the ball off. Mutually built plays. Schaub rolling out on running plays disrupts the D as a yin yang to Foster acting like he has the ball when Schaub is boot legging.
Don't understand you guys. I know the doc has a lot of info but when the team says that he will be ready I believe that he will be ready.
Don't understand you guys. I know the doc has a lot of info but when the team says that he will be ready I believe that he will be ready.
I see that you didn't join this place until November of last year. You're about to find out something regarding the team's honesty about injury disclosures.
Well if your implying that I became a fan in November that is wrong although I've only been a fan for 5 years
I agree.
Texans would be foolish to rush him back onto the field. Even the idea of him being at training camp and trying to do too much in camp is scary. It would be the Texans fault if they rushed him back and he re-injured it. The Texans are the final decision makers on when a player returns, and they have an obligation to the team and to the player to NOT rush him back onto the field too early.
TJ can hold down the fort for the first half of the season, let Schaub come in midway and see what he can do...this is fair to everyone, IMO: (1) Schaub needs a full year from the time of the injury, (2) TJ will have had a full camp and benefit of playing in high pressure games back in 2011, and (3) The halfway point of the 2012 season gives us the opportunity to see if Schaub can play QB for a full game or heck, even if it's just for 1 quarter of football.
I don't see why we can't have our cake and eat it too. Play TJ, when the midway point of the season gets here we activate Schaub and play him sparingly in perhaps one quarter of play or garbage time when we're blowing out the opponent in the 4th quarter...and 99% of those plays will be handoffs or safe pass plays out of the shotgun with max protection for Schaub. This gives the texans some film to study to make a decision on Schaub's contract.
Win-win, IMO.
If TJ starts the year and does well, then Matt (if he is medically cleared to play) would be trade bait mid-season before the deadline. You would not wait to see if he was going to be able to play and then not be able to get anything for him if TJ was the better option and doing well. You would let him get cleared, and then try to get something for a QB in the last year of his contract, so the other team could worry about if he was 100% or not.
There is the 'little" problem of not having a legitimate back-up QB.
Just sign a vet in the offseason of after trading Schaub.
They are talking in-season trading Schaub. and there is about zero QBs hanging around the unemployment line who are better than healthy schaub (and I get his health is far from guaranteed).
i said it after the injury was announced, schaub has played his last game as a texans. I know it sucks, but when he comes back, the team will be in mid season form and tj will be in control of the offense.
and we'll be VERY lucky to be at .500. And Foster + our defense will carry us to any wins we manage.
Yates will be - AT BEST - a spot duty backup.
and we'll be VERY lucky to be at .500. And Foster + our defense will carry us to any wins we manage.
Yates will be - AT BEST - a spot duty backup.
Dude.
I went back and watched the Falcons game and the first series of the last Titans game. TJ, as a rook, played a helluva lot better than just a spot duty backup.
Give this kid a real off-season and starter's reps in TC? I think you're going to be surprised.
If you're in the camp that Yates just needs first team reps through the off-season, I think you can rest easy, from all the info I've seen on Matt's injury, even if he was to start week 1, he isn't going to be taking too many reps in practice.
I saw Yates looking about level with any of those borderline starting QB's in their rookie seasons, of course Yates having only taken 3rd team reps for most of the season, you'd have to think he has a chance to outperform that analysis, but at the same time he might end up as one of the ones who fail.
Either way, he's already lived up to his draft position if he never played another down. I'd feel a lot more comfortable if I wasn't forced to find out which way he's going to go this season tbh, much rather have the chance to wait 1 more year.