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State of the O-line
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Pharaohcious
Waterboy
Idk why your so rude to me, I haven't spoken against the LGBTQ community!
Carr Bombed
Hall of Fame
Showing your age again...
I'm not being rude, just trying to be informative and honest. Thought maybe you really didn't know, not that I really care
WTF does "BJ" and LGBTQ mean?
Texansballer74
The Marine
But you're name calling yourself. I guess back then it was all peaches and cream huh.
Highly doubt it
Highly doubt it
infantrycak
Hall of Fame
FFS. O-LINE!!
I wonder if Sharping starts game 1 at LG? I know everybody has Rankin penciled in there but I like Scharping alot. I kinda hope they start Scharping at RG and the OL looks something like this if the Texans are really lucky and everybody is healthy game 1.
Kalil/ Rankin/ Fulton/ Scharping/ Howard.
With Henderson/Martin/Mancz as reserves and Davenport/Kelemete can be traded for a 3rd down RB and a Interior DL.
Kalil/ Rankin/ Fulton/ Scharping/ Howard.
With Henderson/Martin/Mancz as reserves and Davenport/Kelemete can be traded for a 3rd down RB and a Interior DL.
I’d be curious to get a look at a Rankin-Fulton-Scharping interior trio as well
Texansballer74
The Marine
Davenport will be your starter at left tackle, Rankins at RG and Kelemete at LG.
Mangler
Toro de España
If we get Caserio, I hope he brings Dante Scarnecchia to H-town with him. The Devlin experiment is hereby a failure.
Yikes. That would be much worse than last year.
Not if everyone is healthy and the rookies are worthy of their draft status.
Number19
Hall of Fame
Has Kalil been medically cleared? What is his status? When is he expected to return to the field?
Number19
Hall of Fame
Kelemete is undersized and listed as 301 lbs.
Why on earth would you assume Khalil will be healthy or effective, even if he gets medically cleared? Either Davenport or Howard will most likely be the week one starting LT.
Texansballer74
The Marine
I believe you are correct. They are locked in unless their backups completely beats them out or someone gets injured.
Even high first round picks worthy of their draft status will struggle. These guys are small school projects.
Khalil and Seantrel haven't been healthy in years.
Nope and that's why I said if they are extremely lucky.
Then you can expect to see more or what we saw last year. Watson won't make it through the year.
If they can't beat out last yrs OL then I feel very sorry for Watson.
Texansballer74
The Marine
We're going to feel sorry for Watson either way. In this system as you can see is difficult to learn. We changed the line every year and the communication has gotten worse because of it. At least see try to stick with the starters from last season in the beginning. If they haven't gelled by then, move on with their replacement.
Rich Schmidt
Myopicone
We need to see if Kalil can get healthy and how guys look with pads on, but I think Kelemente and Martin looked the worst by end of the year. Lamm is gone, Davenport was trending up, not happy with his play, but by week 1 will someone really outplay him from our roster? So I expect them to look hard at the interior in camp and pre-season, and see if Davenport and Henderson can be beat out. Wild guess, Fulton at center, Scharping and Rankin at guards, Davenport LT, Tytus RT. Probably have to start their shiny 1st rounder somewhere. We are the Texans so I would expect a different line by week 4 whatever they start
Texansphan
Football connoisseur
He will be fine if we have a run game.
He also admits to hanging on to the ball too long and has been working on that.
The negativity around these parts is getting old.
Number19
Hall of Fame
It's mentioned in numerous posts, and I'm in agreement, the Texans need to move Fulton to OC, a position he has experience at while in KC. Martin is listed as 295 lbs. He's too undersized, even for an OC. Fultion is an inch taller at 6'-5", but has shown he can get under the pads of shorter NT's. But more importantly in my opinion is he is listed as 321 lbs. Put Rankin to his left and Scharping to his right and we have, potentially, a solid interior line. If Henderson can do an adequate job at RT, then Scharping can move inside. Ideally, I'd like Howard to win the LT starting role.
maverick512000
Hall of Fame
Here's the thing we don't need everyone on the line to be an all pro, Watson is a mobile enough QB that he can get away for a little bit. We just need a line that can give him a few more seconds to get the ball away. I actually do expect the line to be much better because they do have more experience and actually looking at many of the teams we are playing against they have great offenses but much weaker defenses than what we just played against. Ravens will be the worst of the bunch next year but Dallas had the 7th ranked D and we beat them twice, Jags the 5th ranked and we beat them twice and Titans the 5th ranked and we split with them. In comparison Saints were 14, packers 18 and Pats 21. So some tough offenses but middle of the pack defenses.
https://www.footballdb.com/stats/teamstat.html?group=D&cat=T
https://www.footballdb.com/stats/teamstat.html?group=D&cat=T
That is what I expect.
Why would I expect anything different when nothing has changed in 5 years?
Texansballer74
The Marine
Keeping Watson Clean
We also need our secondary receivers not named Watson and Fuller to get open as well.
Better play calling can open things up as well.
A legit running game will help out tremendously.
Being able to get the Tight ends more involved.
Texansphan
Football connoisseur
Just joining in the fun.
Fair enough
Carr Bombed
Hall of Fame
Carr Bombed
Hall of Fame
Which is two things that tend to happen every year.
FOR F*CKS SAKE. OLWhat is that?
Carr Bombed
Hall of Fame
Lol.. I wasn't talking about "FFS", I was asking what a Oline was. I haven't seen one in years!
No Texans fan has. lolLol.. I wasn't talking about "FFS", I was asking what a Oline was. I haven't seen one in years!
Mangler
Toro de España
If they can’t beat out last year’s O-line, Devlin has got to go! If what butt chin said about Cal (telling him and all other employees what they need to improve on, I’m sure he made it clear that he wants and demands. I doubt he thinks highly of Devlin after 4-5 years of a whole bunch of nothing.
Devlin should've been fired last offseason.
BOB's loyalty to Devlin is going to get him fired. Just like Kubiak's loyalty to his staff/Schaub got him fired.
Well he didn't want to extend Shaub but Rick still threw him under the bus. The O'Brien would do the same to Rick.
Who will do it to OBrien?
The signs of a dysfunctional org.
Pharaohcious
Waterboy
I'll throw him under a bus... how much you wanna pay me?
I'll chip in $100
Pharaohcious
Waterboy
I want what Clowneys going to get or i walk!
We can start a GoFundMe
LOL
you ain't Clowney
....close the door on your way out
Pharaohcious
Waterboy
Fk it... Indianapolis here I come!
NFL offensive line rankings: All 32 teams' units entering 2019
31. HOUSTON TEXANS
PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP:
Left Tackle: Julie’n DavenportLeft Guard: Senio KelemeteCenter: Nick Martin
Right Guard: Zach Fulton
Right Tackle: Tytus Howard
All things considered, the Houston Texans offensive line didn’t get much better on paper this offseason. Moves were made — including taking Howard (78.9) and Max Scharping(82.4) in the first two rounds of the 2019 NFL Draft and signing veteran Matt Kalil, who missed all of 2018 with an injury — but until those players live up to expectations, the Texans remain the bottom of the barrel
https://www.profootballfocus.com/ne...il&utm_term=0_ae3f4210bf-3609a90333-216865417
SMH