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So .... Who's your QB in 2014 ?! - [edit] Mallett?

CloakNNNdagger said:
...no idea where this Mallet trade "rumor" started...
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I do. :thinking: :redface:
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steelbtexan said:
Mercilus isn't a good enough football player to justify his draft status. I would move on from him. He symbolizes everything that was wrong with the last regime. I would try to trade Mercilus for a 3rd/4th rd pick to make up for some of the equity loss of the trade for Mallett.

It's time to move on from the past.
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In the 2012 draft, Mercilus was rated as a first round prospect. In just a quick search, both NFL Draft Scout and The Sports XChange had him rated as the 3rd best DE with an overall rating as the 22nd best player in that year's draft. We took him at #26 and around the league it was considered an excellent pick.

The question is not how well he performed in his two years under Philips, but rather how well he projects to our new system. If Crennel has his eye on Clowney at the DE position, then Mercilus will likely be the Elephant. If the plan is to draft Clowney for the Elephant, then it is not unreasonable we'll try to trade him.
 
McClain is right about this one IMO. I think if Obrien, (given his familiarity with Mallett and his experience in the system) thought for a second that he was starting QB material this would have got done a while ago.
 
ReliantTexan said:
McClain is right about this one IMO. I think if Obrien, (given his familiarity with Mallett and his experience in the system) thought for a second that he was starting QB material this would have got done a while ago.
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Free Agency just opened up, it wasn't possible for a deal to get done before this past weekend.
 
ReliantTexan said:
McClain is right about this one IMO. I think if Obrien, (given his familiarity with Mallett and his experience in the system) thought for a second that he was starting QB material this would have got done a while ago.
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I guess the Texans didn't think Schaub was starter material. Traded March 22, 2007.

Teams don't move at the pace you seem to think they do. You see any other trades?
 
matts290 said:
Free Agency just opened up, it wasn't possible for a deal to get done before this past weekend.
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Mallett isn't a free agent. His rookie contract isn't up until the end of this (2014) season.

Here's another guy who thinks it's hogwash too.
Here's what we know: we know very little about Mallett. Except that multiple teams reportedly were interested in him last off-season as well. Whether it's because teams think the Tom Brady magic has rubbed off on him or they believe in him because Bill Belichick seemingly believes in him, Mallett's potential future continues to make headlines.


But he's thrown only a total of four passes in three seasons, and he's completed one of them for 17 yards. He's actually trotted onto the field in only four games to replace Brady. For a former third-round pick who's been in the league since 2011, it'd be difficult to know less about how Mallett would handle a regular-season game.
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Number19 said:
In the 2012 draft, Mercilus was rated as a first round prospect. In just a quick search, both NFL Draft Scout and The Sports XChange had him rated as the 3rd best DE with an overall rating as the 22nd best player in that year's draft. We took him at #26 and around the league it was considered an excellent pick.

The question is not how well he performed in his two years under Philips, but rather how well he projects to our new system. If Crennel has his eye on Clowney at the DE position, then Mercilus will likely be the Elephant. If the plan is to draft Clowney for the Elephant, then it is not unreasonable we'll try to trade him.
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I don't see Mercilus fitting anywhere close to the "Elephant" mold. [from http://patspropaganda.com/post/3900331721/patriots-legend-mcginest-on-the-elephant-position ]

Patriots legend McGinest on the “Elephant” position


As I mentioned yesterday Patriots fans have been clamoring for a new “Elephant” since Willie McGinest left. Here’s what Willie himself has to say about what it takes to play the position.


“You have to be talented, you have to be tough, because you have to be able to take on the linemen and fullbacks and tight ends and play in the trenches vs. the run game,” McGinest said. “So you have to be sturdy and strong enough and tough enough to handle that, but you also have to be agile, and smart enough to be able to read coverages and drop back into coverages and understand different receiver sets and motions and be able to read different formations. It’s not easy.”

That would seem obvious since that the Pats haven’t really found anyone that’s had the same impact as McGinest at the position, save for Mike Vrabel.

But let’s backpedal a bit. At 6-foot-5, 270 pounds, McGinest fit the physical prototype for the elephant, which basically is a linebacker/defensive end hybrid.

“When I came out (of college), I was a ’tweener,” McGinest said. “I was small, as in having the right weight for a defensive end. But I was a big, big linebacker. So you’re kind of an undersized D-end, but a big, big linebacker. Charles Haley (Dallas and San Francisco) was another in that so-called elephant mold where you rush like a D-end, and you also drop into coverage and play linebacker.”

“There’s guys out there who have come out of college and done it in the past, like Shawne Merriman and Mike Vrabel. Vrabel was an example of an end who came off the edge, and then he came to us, and did a lot of different things. It’s just a matter of finding the right guy and having them play the way you want in your system.”
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steelbtexan said:
Mallett did lead the Hogs to a Sugar Bowl. How many BCS bowls have they been to since. He had some problems in the 4th qtr but Arkansas team was lacking talent over all. Don't believe me, look at what happened to Tyler Wilson.

Even though Mallett talks like a Arkansas redneck. He's actually a very smart guy. (Parents were educators) I saw him breakdown defenses on the Gruden QB camp and he impressed me. He should've only gotten better with 3 yrs in the Pats system.

Bottom line is do you believe Mallett has the ability to be a franchise QB? I think he does. I would ask in a trade for a change in draft positions in the 2nd rd. 2-33 for 2-61 and the Texans 2015 3rd. That seems like a fair trade to me.
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He didn't "lead" them anywhere. He was the QB of a team that Petrino led to a Sugar Bowl. He gets a ton of credit for what was very clearly Petrino's doing at Arkansas, which stumps me because Petrino had just done the same thing at Louisville. The team had a better record the year after Mallett left with Tyler Wilson at the helm. Then they fell off the deep end after Petrino was dismissed. He was clearly the instrumental piece of Arkansas' success.

I know this is more than anyone wants to read, but I feel it is important to this discussion. Pulled from the Hoyer/Mallett thread in the NFL section a couple of months ago, my thoughts and opinions on Mallett:

Major knocks that I remember against Mallet coming out of college were:

- That he was not a good leader. He had a ton of confidence but his teammates were turned off by his arrogance and inability to accept that anything could be his fault. This was a rumor that I never saw supported in writing, but maybe it was his interviews that caused him to drop in the draft?

- He time and time again crumbled at the end of games when his team needed him to step up.

- He was rumored to have been involved with some major drugs like cocaine or meth.
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#3 is forgivable in the right circumstances. #1 and #2 are not endearing for a franchise QB.

More on #2 below:

Arkansas went 8-5 in Houston Nutt's last season in 2007. They went 5-7 while transitioning from Nutt to Bobby Petrino in 2008. Then with Mallett, they went 8-5 and 10-3. In Petrino's final year they went 11-2 with Tyler Wilson at QB. They then went 4-8 with the same QB but with a different coach, John L. Smith.

Mallett was not responsible for Arkansas' success. Petrino was. Mallett was a key cog who put up good stats, but the team tied a school record with 11 wins the very next season after he left. With a QB (Wilson) who was drafted in the 4th round and promptly got cut because he couldn't beat out UDFA Matt McGloin to be the third string QB in Oakland.

Mallett may have a ton of ability but ability isn't everything. There are numerous examples of that. I still remember everyone making a deal of it when Brian Billick compared him to Ryan Leaf before the draft.

2010:
-In his final college game (Sugar Bowl), down 5 points, his defense blocked a punt and gave him the ball on the 18 with a minute left. He threw an incompletion and then a pick.

-Earlier that year, they led Alabama 20-14 going into the fourth quarter. In that fourth quarter Mallett was 4/10 for 44 yards and 2 INTs. The first one set Bama up on the 12 yard line when they were down three points. They scored a TD to go up four with three minutes left. Next possession, Mallett throws another pick to seal the deal.

2009:
-Arkansas was down 7 to Ole Miss entering the fourth quarter. Arkansas only got the ball twice. Mallett didn't make the most of it. He went 3/6 for 44 yards and both drives ended with him taking sacks on 3rd down. Their last six plays they totaled -16 yards. -21 if you count the delay of game right before that sequence because Mallett didn't get the snap off in time with his team out of timeouts.

-Against Alabama they were down 14-7 with 10 mintues left in the third quarter. Mallett went 2/11 for 38 yards and an INT the rest of the way.

-Against Georgia they entered the fourth quarter down four points. He went 2/11 for 29 yards.
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That's five games in two years where he shrunk in crunch time. In most of those games he had nice looking stats. But the box score doesn't tell the story. When his team needed him he failed to deliver.
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Main reason I wanted and still want no part of Mallett. Talk to me all you want about his physical tools but I scouted this guy a lot when he was at Arkansas and he isn't the answer. IMO of course.
 
People need to get over Mercilus being a really good football player despite his 1st rd draft status. He's a below avg starter or a good backup. Sam Acho type player, who was another (Wade/Rick) draft screw up.
 
Major knocks that I remember against Mallet coming out of college were:

- That he was not a good leader. He had a ton of confidence but his teammates were turned off by his arrogance and inability to accept that anything could be his fault. This was a rumor that I never saw supported in writing, but maybe it was his interviews that caused him to drop in the draft?
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This runs counter on both points to numerous other evaluations which laud his leadership and which say he interviewed well impressing people with his honesty about his drug use.

Bottom line, whatever OB thinks IMO.

steelbtexan said:
People need to get over Mercilus being a really good football player despite his 1st rd draft status. He's a below avg starter or a good backup. Sam Acho type player, who was another (Wade/Rick) draft screw up.
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This is another trust OB and Crennel to me. He is upgradeable but not a priority IMO. NT, ILB, DE and nickel CB are all bigger needs.
 
bah007 said:
He didn't "lead" them anywhere. He was the QB of a team that Petrino led to a Sugar Bowl. He gets a ton of credit for what was very clearly Petrino's doing at Arkansas, which stumps me because Petrino had just done the same thing at Louisville. The team had a better record the year after Mallett left with Tyler Wilson at the helm. Then they fell off the deep end after Petrino was dismissed. He was clearly the instrumental piece of Arkansas' success.

I know this is more than anyone wants to read, but I feel it is important to this discussion. Pulled from the Hoyer/Mallett thread in the NFL section a couple of months ago, my thoughts and opinions on Mallett:



#3 is forgivable in the right circumstances. #1 and #2 are not endearing for a franchise QB.

More on #2 below:



Main reason I wanted and still want no part of Mallett. Talk to me all you want about his physical tools but I scouted this guy a lot when he was at Arkansas and he isn't the answer. IMO of course.
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I appreciate your research.

Mallett is still better than any 1-1 QB in this draft at 2-1. 10-3 means he had to show some kind of leadership qualities. No offense to you, but if BOB wants Mallett he must have seen something in him that you don't. BOB's job is on the line. I trust his judgement regardless of which QB he selects. Maybe Mallett has matured and improved in these areas.

Maybe McNair is turned off by the way Mallett speaks and told BOB Mallett isn't Texans worthy. I knew McNair was going to find a way to get me to stop using the BoB moniker. LOL (Bill O'Brien)
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
I don't see Mercilus fitting anywhere close to the "Elephant" mold. [from http://patspropaganda.com/post/3900331721/patriots-legend-mcginest-on-the-elephant-position ]
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My position is based on the fact that FA signing will begin Tuesday and many of the top talents will be signed over the next couple of weeks, and at this time we have less than $10M cap space to sign FA's (per this morning's Chronicle). And we have only 7 draft picks plus 3 supplemental picks (1 in the 5th and 2 in the 7th).

We can't simply release the majority of the team and replace them with other players. Mercilus may not be Crennel's ideal Elephant, but he is still a first round talent going into only his third year. This alone makes weakside DE less of a "need" position than others on the team. So unless we draft Clowney for that position, and unless traded, this will be the position Mercilus will play. Whether he wins the starting role is another thing all together.
 
infantrycak said:
This runs counter on both points to numerous other evaluations which laud his leadership and which say he interviewed well impressing people with his honesty about his drug use.

Bottom line, whatever OB thinks IMO.



This is another trust OB and Crennel to me. He is upgradeable but not a priority IMO. NT, ILB, DE and nickel CB are all bigger needs.
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The trust OB thing is where I'm at.

Agreed on the needs. I think you can add OT/OG/TE to this list, depending on what they do with OD.
 
infantrycak said:
I guess the Texans didn't think Schaub was starter material. Traded March 22, 2007.
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Kubiak didn't have near the familiarity with Schaub that BOB has with Mallett . Obrien scouted him and was his QB coach/OC for a season. I don't see what more evaluation is needed for OB to form an opinion on him.

Not to mention Schaub's asking price was much higher than Mallett's has been reported to be. Alot more homework and evaluaion needed with Schaub.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
I don't see Mercilus fitting anywhere close to the "Elephant" mold. [from http://patspropaganda.com/post/3900331721/patriots-legend-mcginest-on-the-elephant-position ]
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We need to get something cleared up here. I thought the Elephant was the weakside OLB position and was primarily used to rush the QB. Mc Guiness seems to be describing the strongside OLB position. If the DE lines up at the 4, headup with the LOT, then the OLB usually only has to deal with the FB or RB as a blocker. In Crennel's defense, The DE MUST engage the OT to make the system work. I believe it was in KC that offenses found the solution to Crennel's defense because his talent at DE was able to be handled solely by the OG, leaving the OT to block the OLB.
 
ReliantTexan said:
Kubiak didn't have near the familiarity with Schaub that BOB has with Mallett . Obrien scouted him and was his QB coach/OC for a season. I don't see what more evaluation is needed for OB to form an opinion on him.

Not to mention Schaub's asking price was much higher than Mallett's has been reported to be. Alot more homework and evaluaion needed with Schaub.
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This is not a turn key decision, do we want him and bang done. 1st they drag along negotiating the compensation to the Pats. After that is done the Pats let Mallett talk to the Texans and they have to negotiate a new contract for him the structure of which is particularly important since this involves a trade for an unproven player. Your idea of pace is unrealistic.

Number19 said:
We need to get something cleared up here. I thought the Elephant was the weakside OLB position and was primarily used to rush the QB. Mc Guiness seems to be describing the strongside OLB position. If the DE lines up at the 4, headup with the LOT, then the OLB usually only has to deal with the FB or RB as a blocker. In Crennel's defense, The DE MUST engage the OT to make the system work. I believe it was in KC that offenses found the solution to Crennel's defense because his talent at DE was able to be handled solely by the OG, leaving the OT to block the OLB.
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You have reason for confusion. Elephant is sometimes used about a 4-3 DE who lines out wide to take the OT or TE and sometimes about a 3-4 OLB. And as contemplated by the Texans about one guy flipping back and forth as they go between 4 and 3 man fronts. Clowney is not suited to be a 3-4 DE especially for Crennel.
 
Number19 said:
We need to get something cleared up here. I thought the Elephant was the weakside DE position and was primarily used to rush the QB. Mc Guiness seems to be describing the strongside DE position. If the DE lines up at the 4, headup with the LOT, then the OLB usually only has to deal with the FB or RB as a blocker. In Crennel's defense, The DE MUST engage the OT to make the system work. I believe it was in KC that offenses found the solution to Crennel's defense because his talent at DE was able to be handled solely by the OG, leaving the OT to block the OLB.
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This is why I posted the piece.........Mercilus showed no propensity to deal with any physical "obstacles." Unless he had a straight unobstructed line, he went nowhere. And I saw no ability for him to effectively drop into coverage.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
This is why I posted the piece.........Mercilus showed no propensity to deal with any physical "obstacles." Unless he had a straight unobstructed line, he went nowhere. And I saw no ability for him to effectively drop into coverage.
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If this is Crennel's evaluation, then it makes draft decisions pretty straight forward. We draft Clowney.

But... with my mock, I've got Tuitt penciled in at 2-33 to be the talent to keep the OT off of Mercilus.

And we haven't even begun to address the strong side.

You can begin to understand the position that our existing talent doesn't match up well with Crennel's defense and why the draft has to be defense centric.
 
Texans need 2 OLB's, NTs, and corners...IMO these are the texans biggest needs defensively.

Our OLB's stink. Wasn't ever a fan of the Mercilus pick up, but I was willing to give him a chance. His book still isn't closed, but I would not be looking to trot him back out as a starter next season.

I'd like to see joe mays brought back. I think he could be a serviceable LB and STer. He misses tackles at times but overall he's a hard nosed player.

McCain needs to go. I'd like to see Harris get one year under crennel. I think our corners and safeties have good talent overall. I think the coaching overall became stagnant here and it made a lot of the guys look worse than what they are. Both sides of the ball.
 
_King_ said:
Texans need 2 OLB's, NTs, and corners...IMO these are the texans biggest needs defensively.

Our OLB's stink. Wasn't ever a fan of the Mercilus pick up, but I was willing to give him a chance. His book still isn't closed, but I would not be looking to trot him back out as a starter next season.

I'd like to see joe mays brought back. I think he could be a serviceable LB and STer. He misses tackles at times but overall he's a hard nosed player.

McCain needs to go. I'd like to see Harris get one year under crennel. I think our corners and safeties have good talent overall. I think the coaching overall became stagnant here and it made a lot of the guys look worse than what they are. Both sides of the ball.
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I liked the Mercilus pick. I have a friend from Illinois that told me it was a great pick. Looks like your right.

Agrred McCain has to go. I would like to fill that position with a vet min FA and draft a guy in the 4th rd range. Anytime Shilo Keo is starting at FS I would have to disagree with you on the talent level in the secondary. Agreed about the coacing getting stagnant.
 
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steelbtexan said:
I appreciate your research.

Mallett is still better than any 1-1 QB in this draft at 2-1. 10-3 means he had to show some kind of leadership qualities. No offense to you, but if BOB wants Mallett he must have seen something in him that you don't. BOB's job is on the line. I trust his judgement regardless of which QB he selects. Maybe Mallett has matured and improved in these areas.

Maybe McNair is turned off by the way Mallett speaks and told BOB Mallett isn't Texans worthy. I knew McNair was going to find a way to get me to stop using the BoB moniker. LOL (Bill O'Brien)
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I think Mallett is basically Bortles a few years down the road except that Bortles can win you a game in the fourth quarter and Mallett can't. I would take Bridgewater or Bortles at #1 before I would trade #33 for Mallett.

Outside of those two I agree. I don't think much of Mallett but I think he would be better than the rest of the QBs in this draft, regardless of what round you could get them in.

With that said, as soon as we fired Kubiak I said I wanted O'Brien to be our next coach. Never thought that would happen but it did. I think he will be an excellent coach and I will stand behind whatever decisions he makes until he proves that his judgment can't be trusted.
 
I always said this was a possibility....

I think O'Brien would rather have someone that can run his system right now than wait for a rookie QB to learn it....

May cannot get here fast enough....
 
DX-TEX said:
Ryan Mallet removed his location of Foxsboro MA off his twitter.

:texflag:
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I'm twitter ignorant. Is that really Gronk asking if he got traded to Oakland because he was flying out to California?

Side note - just realized his nickname is Big Tex.
 
infantrycak said:
I'm twitter ignorant. Is that really Gronk asking if he got traded to Oakland because he was flying out to California?

Side note - just realized his nickname is Big Tex.
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No, that's just some guy using the name. Look for the blue checkmark. It means certified
 
bah007 said:
Outside of those two I agree. I don't think much of Mallett but I think he would be better than the rest of the QBs in this draft, regardless of what round...

... and I will stand behind whatever decisions he [O'Brian] makes until he proves that his judgment can't be trusted.
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I baffles me how this thread has turned into a suck off for a guy like Ryan Mallett who hasn't taken any meaningful NFL snaps, plus all of this trust in OB, when trust (at least to me) has to be earned and not just granted, especially after Kubiak.

I'm not knocking you; and I've heard some good points about Mallett, but that this has turned into a Mallett thread when there's dudes with much more upside like Kirk Cousins who can be had for a draft pick (who has seen PLENTY of NFL action, by the way) and Matt McGloin who can also be had for a lower draft pick, after playing pretty well behind a crapola Raiders team. I won't fail to mention that McGloin was also OB's boy at Penn State, where they game planned together as Head Coach and starting QB. I can't help but to think there's a synergy there, over anybody else at the moment.

Anyway, look at this from a very simplistic angle: Give a 2nd for Kirk Cousins who was holed away to get a future draft pick and has played some damn good NFL ball, or give a 2nd for Ryan Mallett, who was also holed away for a draft pick, but has done little more than pass Bill O'Brian in the chow line?

I realize that Mallett is not your guy, specifically - you've said it - but I'm just saying that there are more logical options which to use our draft picks.
 
EVOLVIST said:
I baffles me how this thread has turned into a suck off for a guy like Ryan Mallett who hasn't taken any meaningful NFL snaps, plus all of this trust in OB, when trust (at least to me) has to be earned and not just granted, especially after Kubiak.

I'm not knocking you; and I've heard some good points about Mallett, but that this has turned into a Mallett thread when there's dudes with much more upside like Kirk Cousins who can be had for a draft pick (who has seen PLENTY of NFL action, by the way) and Matt McGloin who can also be had for a lower draft pick, after playing pretty well behind a crapola Raiders team. I won't fail to mention that McGloin was also OB's boy at Penn State, where they game planned together as Head Coach and starting QB. I can't help but to think there's a synergy there, over anybody else at the moment.

Anyway, look at this from a very simplistic angle: Give a 2nd for Kirk Cousins who was holed away to get a future draft pick and has played some damn good NFL ball, or give a 2nd for Ryan Mallett, who was also holed away for a draft pick, but has done little more than pass Bill O'Brian in the chow line?

I realize that Mallett is not your guy, specifically - you've said it - but I'm just saying that there are more logical options which to use our draft picks.
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I think the main point about mallet is that he already had 3 years learning the system, so we don't need to draft a guy and bench him 3 years to let him learn the system.

also, NE will try to trade him now not because they think he is useless but because they probably understand he won't be around next year when he turns FA. So, since they will lose him anyway, they might as well get something for him.

that said I think we can't possibly have more information than OB on the QBs that are available to us.

also, we should give him some trust, you don't want to be in cleveland's position (firing the HC after 1 year)

And I say this regardless of OB being the HC, if it was another guy I would have said the same.
 
EVOLVIST said:
I'm not knocking you; and I've heard some good points about Mallett, but that this has turned into a Mallett thread when there's dudes with much more upside like Kirk Cousins who can be had for a draft pick (who has seen PLENTY of NFL action, by the way) and Matt McGloin who can also be had for a lower draft pick, after playing pretty well behind a crapola Raiders team. I won't fail to mention that McGloin was also OB's boy at Penn State, where they game planned together as Head Coach and starting QB. I can't help but to think there's a synergy there, over anybody else at the moment.
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I didn't know either Cousins or McGloin were available. I do know our team inquired about Osweiler, who also wasn't "known" to be available. But that tells me they're looking.

If they're not looking at Cousins (who I don't like as much as Mallet, regardless how much he has played) or McGloin, I imagine there's a reason.
 
Sigma said:
I think the main point about mallet is that he already had 3 years learning the system, so we don't need to draft a guy and bench him 3 years to let him learn the system.

also, NE will try to trade him now not because they think he is useless but because they probably understand he won't be around next year when he turns FA. So, since they will lose him anyway, they might as well get something for him.

that said I think we can't possibly have more information than OB on the QBs that are available to us.

also, we should give him some trust, you don't want to be in cleveland's position (firing the HC after 1 year)

And I say this regardless of OB being the HC, if it was another guy I would have said the same.
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Yeah, but we're talking about a system, not the system O'Brian is going to run. Frankly, we don't know what system OB is going to run, just as much as most of us hope that Crennel will finesse his two-gap 3-4 system to utilize a talent like Watt, the same way we're hoping OB doesn't run a somewhat vanilla system like he ran at Penn State. It's pretty close to obvious that OB would open up his Penn State profile to NFL standards, but to assume we're going to be the Petite Patriots is a little of a stretch at the moment.

About trust, though, I'm not sure how much fan trust is going to have any bearing on what the FO sees in O'Brian, any more than what we say or do has an affect on what happens on the field.

thunderkyss said:
I didn't know either Cousins or McGloin were available. I do know our team inquired about Osweiler, who also wasn't "known" to be available. But that tells me they're looking.

If they're not looking at Cousins (who I don't like as much as Mallet, regardless how much he has played) or McGloin, I imagine there's a reason.
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The fact is, we don't know. Just like everything has a price, so can a player be "bought." In the case of McGloin, it's pretty much been intimated by the Raider's FO that they'll deal either Pryor or McGloin. With Shanahan out of Washington Cousins' fate is a little less clear, where once it was obvious that Cousins was their ace in the hole.

Think about this, though: if it were not one of us mentioning Cousins or McGloin, but instead we'd heard it from news source, like the Osweiler bit, it would have it's own thread. Just like you alluded to, though; how much truth is there any of this. I'll give OB some credit, however, for playing things close to the vest.

This has only just begun.
 
Are we adding Brian Hoyer of Cleveland to this mix? I would not mind adding Hoyer and taking Jimmy Garoppolo or Zach Mettenberger in the second round. Hoyer is 28 and looked strong to me with Cleveland when he was on the field. Hoyer was in New England from 2009-2011, which was during BOB's stint with the Pats.
 
Texaninlild said:
Are we adding Brian Hoyer of Cleveland to this mix? I would not mind adding Hoyer and taking Jimmy Garoppolo or Zach Mettenberger in the second round. Hoyer is 28 and looked strong to me with Cleveland when he was on the field. Hoyer was in New England from 2009-2011, which was during BOB's stint with the Pats.
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Sooo we are gonna do this again, 8 years later? Gonna attached every player and coach that was in New England to coming to the Texans....

Man I remember when talks were getting Jake Plummber out of retirement to be the QB for the Texans because of Kubiak...

sad thing is, all of these scenario's are plausible...
 
BullNation4Life said:
Sooo we are gonna do this again, 8 years later? Gonna attached every player and coach that was in New England to coming to the Texans....

Man I remember when talks were getting Jake Plummber out of retirement to be the QB for the Texans because of Kubiak...

sad thing is, all of these scenario's are plausible...
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Sad thing would be writing silly rules like

...no QBs who wear #8.
...no QBs at 1.1 if there is a DE available.
...no QBs who were backups.
...no white QBs.
...no QBs the coach has a connection or affinity to.

Pretty soon we're going to be looking for a hispanic QB at spot 13.5 who has a third nipple and no vowels in his name.
 
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