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Texans had me lost and baffled the entire draft this year. I spend a extreme amount of time every year researching and studying what the Texans will do every year. I really hope this is our best draft ever but I was left confused.
I used to know all the players into the 6th round. Don't bother anymore. Texans give zero phucks about what we like and do whatever.
It is not their job to pick the players we, the fans, like; their job is to pick the best players to help the team. Now, whether they do that is certainly up to debate.
They dont. Draft niks here pick a lot of damn fine players.
They sure do. That doesn't mean the FO is obligated to draft someone this board approves of. What it means, is, perhaps the organization needs better scouts.
If you were a rooting fan during the casserly era you know damn well how often we bombed.
There were 5-6 posters here (including you!) who regularly nailed better picks.
I used to know all the players into the 6th round. Don't bother anymore. Texans give zero phucks about what we like and do whatever.
With the combination of free agency and now the draft it's been a tough offseason for me.
OL FA brought in injury prone ineffective OT. Draft went with less known project OTs.
Again I hope I am completely wrong but I am very skeptical of the Oline still.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but after the 2nd round, I was done with the draft. By next year, I will probably be down to just watching the first round. No disrespect, but I've never understood the point of mock drafts and the days/weeks invested when a team drafting an unexpected player can erase those weeks and days of effort within minutes.
In a year or two, I tend to look at back at who they drafted or who was available with a certain pick and then I might pile on. At the end of the day, I'm still a know it all fan.
- Watson was sacked 62 times, we needed to correct that so they got 2 OT's that have played on both sides.
- Ryan Griffin sucks and likes to punch windows so they drafted a freakish TE to replace him.
- Texans lost pieces in the secondary to free agency and needed to replace them. Signed Lonnie Johnson and Xavier Crawford.
I'm actually surprised they went out and got multiple pieces to fix a problem. Normally they draft 1 player and assume that's suffice.
JMO it's worth what you paid for it... It seems to me the Texans did fill team needs that even Stevie Wonder could see existed, but when you compare the players taken to the talent that was still left on the board at the time, this draft was a fail. It also seems that both OT's we took are project players who MIGHT be good in 2021, but will Watson still be alive. Hopefully they prove me wrong, I'll gladly eat the crow.
After they missed on Dillard, they could have chosen any CB (none had been off the board). Instead they go for Howard who may well have fallen to them in the 2nd and they end up taking the 8th CB off the board. That bugs me.
Howard was not under any circumstances falling to either Texans pick in the 2nd round..
They sure do. That doesn't mean the FO is obligated to draft someone this board approves of. What it means, is, perhaps the organization needs better scouts.
Almost every projection had him as a 2nd round pick, though he did have some buzz
& almost every projection had Dillard as a top 15 pick, Juwan Taylor as a 1st round pick, & Haskins the 2nd best QB.
All these lists are people trying to protect what teams will do. Juwan Taylor's "issue" that none of those people knew about changes the whole board. The way the actual NFL teams saw RBs & WRs & CBs in this draft changes the whole board.
Redo your mocks with only two DBs in the 1st, one WR... see how that changes your projection.
So then how do you know Howard wouldn't have been there in the second?
Even if he wouldn't have been I would have preferred bpa there
I bet would of. I’ve said I like him but watch the game tapes. Not many available but he’s just not really impressive. I love his measurables and was hoping for him later but he wasn’t a first round pick. He’s a project plain and simple. Look at where all the other OL went. Why is it so hard to believe Howard would of fallen? What are you seeing that makes you so sure he goes before 54?Howard was not under any circumstances falling to either Texans pick in the 2nd round..
Are you surprised they stuck to the script? Or with the selection we went with?
Whom are you referring to?I know measurables aren't everything, but our new safety can't even run a 4.7 forty ?
Almost every projection had him as a 2nd round pick, though he did have some buzz
This franchises history could've been so much better with the picks this board made then the toilet load casserly handed us.
How long are we going to ***** about picking Howard in the first for? Asking for a friend....
How long are we going to ***** about picking Howard in the first for? Asking for a friend....
I'm actually amused by all of this wailing and gnashing of teeth. The Texans obviously had a pretty simple draft strategy that mirrors NEs approach: draft exceptional athletes.
I am very much willing to sit back and see how they develop. My biggest question is who plays LT, Davenport or Howard.
I see what the Texans have done this off season as a solid plan to improve their weaknesses.
I think its PatDStats podcast where he pointed out that by the time they were done with FA, they could have fielded a team last Sunday had they needed to play. IE, every roster spot was covered.
Not necessarily with an ideal player, but we could field a team.
That meant come draft day they were able to shoot to improve their 2 biggest weaknesses, taking 2 OT's and a CB with their top 3 picks.
Their FA class was stronger at the CB position so it makes sense that they got the best T ledt on their board at their pick. Dont get fruity trying to trade back etc. If theres a chance he gets snagged away.
If that had already happened with Dillard then dont let it happen again.
The strategy makes plenty of sense, whether the specific players picked work out or not, time will tell, but you cant criticise the FO for taking 2 Tackles and a Corner in their first 3 picks.
Grabbing a good TE next off the board is another plus because for all the assumed potential of the Jordan's, they didn't fully supplant Griffen in season and he has been patchy at best his entire career here.
Have we stopped?How long did we ***** about osweiler?
Have we stopped?
Texans had me lost and baffled the entire draft this year. I spend a extreme amount of time every year researching and studying what the Texans will do every year. I really hope this is our best draft ever but I was left confused.
I believe this is going to turn out to be one of the best drafts we've ever had. Both OL picked are further along than Duane Brown was when we picked him in the 1st round, and I remember the criticism from the draft experts on that selection,
More like puzzled ? I'd like to give Gaine & company a good rating for the Draft but without knowing the details, the inside story on the decisions surrounding the top pick, it's hard to form opinions about their performance ? So without knowing how to grade the top pick, it's hard to rate the whole Draft ?
Going into the Draft the leading priority was widely advertised and known to be to upgrade the protection for Deshawn Watson and the one potential Draft pick in this Draft who could do the most in allaying the concerns about exposing Watson to further injury was widely agreed to be one Andre Dillard.
Reports are that the Texans were given the opportunity to move up in the first round and select and thereby secure Dillard to be their starting LT for only the added cost of a mid-round Draft pick. So I dunno are we left to assume that Gaine was confidant enough about Howard being as effective @ LT this Fall as Dillard would be, or was Gaine just making a calculated risk that he would be for the sake of keeping that third round pick ?