Mr.Scarface
Rookie
I have watched him. I have also watched the offensive line he's running behind. So with that being said its easy to look at this on the surface, but Hyde and Johnson are taking advantage of a vastly superior offensive line between the two teams. If Lamar Miller was healthy he might be leading the league in rushing. Same with Bell. I wasnt trying to use raw stats to provide the backbone for my argument, just a bunch of film and the inclusion of the present variables with Houston and adding Bell to this mix. But you are right, glossing quickly over the stats you would be left quite unimpressed.
Hyde hits a hole and goes. Great situational back, cant block for sht, shouldnt be your feature back and a reason why 6 other teams have ultimately passed.
Duke Johnson was an even more intriguing acquisition, but all O'Brien has asked the open field runner to do is play smashmouth between the tackles because thats what O'Brien likes to do. Bell is a better blocker than both of these guys combined, I may say an even better receiver than Duke and is built to withstand the rigors of the running style Mr "Im the smartest man in the room" likes to use.
Its all null and void, I get it before we get more surly posters crying. It was a merely speculative opinion; and yes; intentional ribbing on my part because i thought it was very funny to have the Houston Texans as being linked to Bell AT THIS STAGE LMAO .. they had all that money preseason and could have had the guy indoctrinated by now, and even after all the injuries to the defense and vastly superior needs Mr OBrien keeps getting linked to offensive players!! Nobody see's the irony? Just me? I guess Im just too easily amused.
Its a little interesting too isnt it, that if the team were as happy with the running situation as you are that there would be any rumors of this kind?
edit: and looking deeper into this did you know that in the last 2 games Bell only had 12 and 16 touches respectively? All this while that offense is in shambles and his QB is "seeing ghosts" .. needs to more involved and thats also a team with an idiot as the head coach.
I'm not trading anything but a 5th rounder for a player with THAT contract, who took a year off, and has shown NOTHING in his return.
You know why the Texans were linked? Because people looked around the league and said "Hey, who could use a RB?" Texans came up because of Lamar's injury and they had Hyde as their featured back. Texans were NEVER interested (according to the people with "inside sources"). Texans are fine with their combo at RB for this season.
Bell is a NAME. He is not the same back as he was with the Steelers.