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El Tejano said:
What about Eric Decker? Dude's also got PR skills.
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You always have to be aware of what peyton can do to make wrs look better. Not saying decker can't be good,but he's a #2. The texans have a 1 and a 2. If they feel like aj's replacement isn't on the roster,they can draft a wr in the 1st 3rds.
 
Red Bryant would be great on the nose. In fact, he's the kind of guy who can play the 0 and 5 tech. Jasper,Tx kid too. 4m per yr sounds good.
 
I know we won't look at him, but I wouldn't mind giving Johnny Jolly a shot. He appears to have gotten past his codeine addiction and was looking good before his injury. Neck injuries usually aren't things I'd mess with, but he's doing good from what I've gathered

His $$ should be reasonable too
 
leebigeztx said:
Red Bryant would be great on the nose. In fact, he's the kind of guy who can play the 0 and 5 tech. Jasper,Tx kid too. 4m per yr sounds good.
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I'd like to see us get him as well. I wanted the Texans to draft him, but they chose Adibi in the 4th & Okam in the 5th. Well, that sure worked out. :rolleyes:
 
HOU-TEX said:
I know we won't look at him, but I wouldn't mind giving Johnny Jolly a shot. He appears to have gotten past his codeine addiction and was looking good before his injury. Neck injuries usually aren't things I'd mess with, but he's doing good from what I've gathered

His $$ should be reasonable too
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I don't know if being back in houston is the best thing.
 
There is some talk going on about the Texans going after Matt Cassel. I heard it mentioned on 610 the other day and then came across an article on NFL.com. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000330071/article/free-agency-primer-top-nine-quarterbacks.

I'm not a Cassel fan or anything but I think he could be someone to come in and "hold down the fort" so to speak until their young draft pick, whoever that is, is ready to go. The video does mention that Cassel had his biggest year with O'Brien in NE and that Cassel just turned down a 3.7 million contract to stay in Minnesota. So I guess it makes sense he'd be looking the Texans way.
 
Insideop said:
There is some talk going on about the Texans going after Matt Cassel. I heard it mentioned on 610 the other day and then came across an article on NFL.com. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000330071/article/free-agency-primer-top-nine-quarterbacks.

I'm not a Cassel fan or anything but I think he could be someone to come in and "hold down the fort" so to speak until their young draft pick, whoever that is, is ready to go. The video does mention that Cassel had his biggest year with O'Brien in NE and that Cassel just turned down a 3.7 million contract to stay in Minnesota. So I guess it makes sense he'd be looking the Texans way.
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When did cassell play under O'Brien? I know he play inder fake hodie,but not O'Brien.
 
Patriots writer Erik Frenz just said they would want a 2nd for Ryan Mallett, then explained why and finished with "if they can't get more than a 3rd" they'll keep him and let him go next year. Freudian slip...? If OB wants him I bet 3-1 does it.
 
Playoffs said:
Patriots writer Erik Frenz just said they would want a 2nd for Ryan Mallett, then explained why and finished with "if they can't get more than a 3rd" they'll keep him and let him go next year. Freudian slip...? If OB wants him I bet 3-1 does it.
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i would be happy with this, considering if we trade for him OB knows more than us on the issue.

Ideally if we can find 2 starters in FA by using low cost or mid tier salaries that would be great.
 
Playoffs said:
Patriots writer Erik Frenz just said they would want a 2nd for Ryan Mallett, then explained why and finished with "if they can't get more than a 3rd" they'll keep him and let him go next year. Freudian slip...? If OB wants him I bet 3-1 does it.
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I don't like this idea. Don't think Mallett is worth 3-1, and I don't think we should be giving up any draft picks to get another team's player. There will be plenty of players in FA including QB's. We need to get more draft picks not less. There's too many holes that need to be filled IMO.
 
Playoffs said:
Patriots writer Erik Frenz just said they would want a 2nd for Ryan Mallett, then explained why and finished with "if they can't get more than a 3rd" they'll keep him and let him go next year. Freudian slip...? If OB wants him I bet 3-1 does it.
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I would be interested in Mallet.
 
PapaL said:
Is he "good" or better than the clowns we had last year?
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I would say yes, but I don`t know how much he has left in the tank and if he`d even be willing to come back.

But if Winston is as good as it gets it almost means, that OT is pretty high up our draft needs. With last years RT no rookie QB would even stand a chance. We can always hope that Quezz or one of the other young guys can step it up, but I wouldn`t hold my breath.

If we don`t like either QB I´d be more than alright with trading down and taking either of the top tackles. If we do take a QB, I´d look really hard at RT in the 2nd or at latest in the 3d round.
 
PapaL said:
Is he "good" or better than the clowns we had last year?
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Yes. Not as good as when he left (and was overrated) but still an upgrade in both pass pro and rush blocking. Better coordination with RG and savvier. You are always going to pull some extra false starts with him though.

Another negative is having to listen to the b!tching from people obsessed with him appearing on the radio a couple times a week instead of silently sitting on his ass at home sucking the centers out of twinkies, naked on a bean bag chair.
 
Playoffs said:
Patriots writer Erik Frenz just said they would want a 2nd for Ryan Mallett, then explained why and finished with "if they can't get more than a 3rd" they'll keep him and let him go next year. Freudian slip...? If OB wants him I bet 3-1 does it.
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If 3-1 did the trick then my draft would hopefully look like this

Rd.1 Clowney
Rd.2 Morgan Moses

or Trade down.

#4 Robinson
#25 Van Noy
#33 Jenkins
#65 Mallett
 
infantrycak said:
Yes. Not as good as when he left (and was overrated) but still an upgrade in both pass pro and rush blocking. Better coordination with RG and savvier. You are always going to pull some extra false starts with him though.

Another negative is having to listen to the b!tching from people obsessed with him appearing on the radio a couple times a week instead of silently sitting on his ass at home sucking the centers out of twinkies, naked on a bean bag chair.
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Agree! Way to much was made out of that.
 
infantrycak said:
Not sure how you think that article supports he's blacklisted. He was offered and turned down a contract. He clearly is not willing to play for vet minimum.
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He was offered a deal for peanuts after he balled out continuously the years previous. If it's your last deal of your career and you KNOW you're worth more than peanuts you will always try to test the market. It's weird that not one team offered more than the vet minimum though. This will be a 30 for 30 story on ESPN within 10 years, I would be willing to bet on that.

thunderkyss said:
Demarcus Ware will get closer to Mario money.
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Absolutely not. It won't be close. Age and upside play huge roles in contracts.

leebigeztx said:
You always have to be aware of what peyton can do to make wrs look better. Not saying decker can't be good,but he's a #2. The texans have a 1 and a 2. If they feel like aj's replacement isn't on the roster,they can draft a wr in the 1st 3rds.
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I agree. I would never pursue a Peyton Manning or Tom Brady FA WR. Look at Brandon Stokely for example.

LikeMike said:
Any good RTs available?
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http://overthecap.com/freeagents.php?Position=RT&Year=2014

Older LTs that don't have the market they think often can be converted to right:

http://overthecap.com/freeagents.php?Position=LT&Year=2014

I'd definitely be down with pursuing one of these guys. I especially like the idea of signing Oher to a short term deal where he has to prove he still he has it while having other RTs on the team compete (Williams).

Oher is only 27 so it's not like his best football is behind him. He was just overrated because a movie was made about him. When the movie was released he wasn't even graded that high on PFF lists from what I remember, just a feel good story.
 
TexansFTW said:
He was offered a deal for peanuts after he balled out continuously the years previous. If it's your last deal of your career and you KNOW you're worth more than peanuts you will always try to test the market. It's weird that not one team offered more than the vet minimum though. This will be a 30 for 30 story on ESPN within 10 years, I would be willing to bet on that.
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This would be a lot more persuasive if you weren't adding facts of your own creation and ignoring facts which were included in your article. It does not say vet minimum - you added that. It does say he has a reputation for not being committed to football according to a former teammate who says that is the problem - you ignore that. He has also now been presented with the perfect opportunity to come out if he is gay and continues to deny it when arguably it would now be to his benefit.
 
infantrycak said:
Michael Oher has not panned out as a star but he would be a giant upgrade on last year.
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I thought about Oher, but I just don't get a warm & fuzzy feeling about him. However, I do hope we sign a veteran RT in free agency & solve that problem once & for all.
 
Hottoddie said:
I thought about Oher, but I just don't get a warm & fuzzy feeling about him. However, I do hope we sign a veteran RT in free agency & solve that problem once & for all.
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I'm not advocating Oher. My preference is a 2nd or 3rd rd RT, but he is a free agent option if the price is right and someone doesn't overpay on lingering hype.
 
infantrycak said:
I'm not advocating Oher. My preference is a 2nd or 3rd rd RT, but he is a free agent option if the price is right and someone doesn't overpay on lingering hype.
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Chester Pitts in his prime was a better RT than Other is although they never played him there.
 
infantrycak said:
This would be a lot more persuasive if you weren't adding facts of your own creation and ignoring facts which were included in your article. It does not say vet minimum - you added that. It does say he has a reputation for not being committed to football according to a former teammate who says that is the problem - you ignore that. He has also now been presented with the perfect opportunity to come out if he is gay and continues to deny it when arguably it would now be to his benefit.
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I said peanuts with regards to Cardinals. The Cardinals asked him to take a paycut from his scheduled $5.5 million owed salary to $3 million after posting probably the best year of his career and therefore ending his career on a reduced salary. This happens every year and guys say no and find other deals (Jennings, Welker are the first 2 I can think of from last year).

I thought that I read he was offered 1 deal after all this for the vet minimum and he declined it based on the fact that he felt he was worth more. PFF had him rated as the #4 safety in 2012. I remembered wrong looking back, it was an article talking about how teams only had to offer him the vet minimum to acquire his skills. If you want to not believe any of it based me typing that wrong that's fine though, I will survive with whatever decision you or anyone else makes.

Perfect opportunity to come out? LOL, working real well for Michael Sam. People were looking for an excuse to make the guy undrafted and guess what... they found it, but it wasn't about what he could or could not do on the football field.

I will leave this alone, but to imply I am intentionally making things up is untrue. I'm sure we can all nit pick subtle details in many posts on here. Regardless, Think whatever you want, it is your right and I respect that, but there are always 2 sides to every story, take the teammates, that's fine with me.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-march-but-hes-still-getting-no-interest-now/

If the Cardinals truly deemed him to be worthy of a one-year, $3 million contract in March, why would no one offer him anything in May, June, July, August, or September?

Coincidentally, the rumors regarding Rhodes’ sexuality hit the Internet in April.
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bah007 said:
I agree with both of you.

Chester was never valued as highly as he should have been during his time here.
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I always thought Chester was a clubhouse lawyer who was looking forward to his post NFL media career. He accomplished his goal. (Winston?)
 
TexansFTW said:
I said peanuts with regards to Cardinals. The Cardinals asked him to take a paycut from his scheduled $5.5 million owed salary to $3 million after posting probably the best year of his career and therefore ending his career on a reduced salary. This happens every year and guys say no and find other deals (Jennings, Welker are the first 2 I can think of from last year).

I thought that I read he was offered 1 deal after all this for the vet minimum and he declined it based on the fact that he felt he was worth more. PFF had him rated as the #4 safety in 2012. I remembered wrong looking back, it was an article talking about how teams only had to offer him the vet minimum to acquire his skills. If you want to not believe any of it based me typing that wrong that's fine though, I will survive with whatever decision you or anyone else makes.

Perfect opportunity to come out? LOL, working real well for Michael Sam. People were looking for an excuse to make the guy undrafted and guess what... they found it, but it wasn't about what he could or could not do on the football field.

I will leave this alone, but to imply I am intentionally making things up is untrue. I'm sure we can all nit pick subtle details in many posts on here. Regardless, Think whatever you want, it is your right and I respect that, but there are always 2 sides to every story, take the teammates, that's fine with me.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-march-but-hes-still-getting-no-interest-now/
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Does anybody else think Sam came out of the closet to gain attention to himself?

Because his combine numbers say he's a 7th rd/UDFA guy.
 
HOU-TEX said:
I know we won't look at him, but I wouldn't mind giving Johnny Jolly a shot. He appears to have gotten past his codeine addiction and was looking good before his injury. Neck injuries usually aren't things I'd mess with, but he's doing good from what I've gathered

His $$ should be reasonable too
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But, but what if he pulls that pistol on Rick? :kitten:
 
FYI, Wade Smith has let the Texans know that he wants to return this season and eventually retire as a Texan. Meanwhile, it should not be any surprise that earlier this year, he underwent another "little procedure" on his bone bruised knee........and his other knee. Let's hurry up and sign him up before he changes his mind.:shots:
 
BullNation4Life said:
Oh, wait what..what I meant to say was that if I see Dqwell Jackson on this team next year....I am going to riot....


That's...that's what I meant....
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i would try to get perhaps 2 of these, geoff schwartz, austin howard and zach strief.

i would really like to get schwartz as he can play either guard or RT, which should help our depth tremendously
 
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