My personal preference is for the Texans to take VY. I do not think that will happen. In fact, I will probably faint away dead if it happens.
Why? This is how I see Bob McNair's world view (some of it I agree with and some of it I am not as generous about)....
Bob McNair is a very loyal guy. He is a big believer in building a team "the right way" and having patience in doing the building. This is the reason why he didn't can Capers earlier than he did. He has never waivered in his support for David Carr, and in all the times this season where the coaches coulda panicked or the owner coulda panicked and decided to bench DC, they didn't. Because they were going to do things "the right way." Through the season, McNair has always said supportive things about Carr (tho I betcha he might said a gosh durn under his breath when Carr did the ridiculous fumble at the beginning of the Pittsburgh game--my form of profanity was a bit stronger).
McNair knows that it has been unfair to Carr's development to ask him to start right away as a rookie, for a team with an abysmal offensive line and few offensive tools. He knows that it was a mistake to not get a better QB coach for him, thinking that Palmer could do everything. He knows that it is unfair to judge Carr based on last season because of the injuries to AJ and DD and Weigart, the rotating offensive line, canning the OC early in the season and the training wheels offense that they ran for the rest of the season.
I am guessing that the "fair" thing to do would be to get the face of the franchise more tools to play with--Bush being someone that could help and some Olinemen. In his press conference, he talked all offense, even though actually statistically speaking our defense was worse. Even if he thought that VY might be a better QB, his sense of fairness, and still being able to have 2 number one picks on the field and having Carr finally succeed as a Texan, is something that appeals to McNair.
CC has been completely talking about reupping Carr's bonus, and doing that straight up whether for two or three years is not probably meaning we are getting a new QB. They are just not admitting that because they want the flexibility to deal the first pick to someone that would want VY--otherwise, people will all go to New Orleans to make deals.
I could see Kubiak preferring Carr because developing a new QB is a time consuming process, especially one that might significantly affect the sorts of things you run.
So, they can talk all they want about how the evaluation process is completely open, and that they haven't decided, blahdittyblah, but just given all the public things Bob McNair has said and what he has done as an owner, it would just blow my doors off for him to pick VY and give up on Carr. I just don't see one tea leaf that says we are gonna pick VY. If McNair is unhappy with Carr, he sure is a good poker player because I've never seen him say one waivering thing about him.
My speculating and speaking outta my behind is now over. All that being said, I hope I am wrong wrong wrong.
.. 4 1st round prospects sounds better than Bush or Young to me.
