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Since Bill has been onboard, the biggest mistake came in the '14 draft when they bypassed Carr and Garropolo - I guess Bill has to eat that one as he was being too cute in "saving" the second pick to bolster the line and protect Fitz. It has snowballed from there - culminating in this current dilemma with Os.
The best you can hope for is that Rick Smith is moved in to some League liaison position and out of football operations.
Or ... gets hit by a bus. Small bus like a VW bus. Nothing life threatening, but retirement necessary ...
or maybe fixing Carr was a nonnegotiable condition of employment that had to be agreed to in order to get the job. (which it was)
I 'll go back to Texans Draft War Room picture and the man front in center down on the front row. The truth be known Bob McNair could be worse than Jerry Jones in his early years. Brian T Smith is probably right and O'Brien did draft Savage with a comp pick in RD 4 in 14'. Then O'Brien traded away 4th and 5th RD picks for Louis Nix, so the first QB they had a chance to draft after Savage was Zach Mettenberger.
Man..., some of you guys really hate this current coach. Some of the things I read on this post surprise me.
I will certainly give you guys credit for sticking to your hatred.
.......but slow down a little bit and think about this for a second.
You guys do understand that Bill is the coach, not the GM right..? I mean, he is involved in the draft as much as saying the type of people he would like to have.
Rick handles bringing in the personnel to fit.
you guys make me laugh...
Can't you just picture Bill walking into the War Room on draft day..., walking up to Rick Smith and saying, "Here's a coloring book, go sit in the corner, I got this".
FIFY
I don't think you fully understand how the final say on the 53 man roster works.
So it makes absolute perfect sense to you that you get the final say on players 1 thru 53 but on players 54 to 80 you have no say or input what so ever? Does that make any sense at all? If you were to say that you have the final decision on all players who are offered a contract you then you would be on the right track.
That was the argument being made by some but it was not my argument. I understand that it taste pretty bad for those who were making the argument that O'Brien had final say on 1 - 53 and Smith had final say on 54 -80.
We disagree, Nix was Romeo's guy.
Yes what you point out makes perfect sense in a situation where the GM has final say on the 53 man roster and who gets a contract, aka Ted Thompson and Ozzie Newsome.
I don't really understand how any of this relates to anything I said. You weren't replying to "those who were making the argument that O'Brien had final say on 1 - 53 and Smith had final say on 54 -80", you were replying to JB, and even addressed him (You) in your post.
Or your failure to understand?
Oh but he does, he has final say on the roster, Harbaugh may say this is who I/coaches want and it gets Ozzie's stamp of approval provided it meets with other parameters such as who is cut and how it fits in with the salary cap.
and so it starts, the all to familiar Cak squirm begins....again.
The way I see it is McNair handicapped the Texans pretty badly when gave Osweiler and Miller $98MM. Now the the Texans are very limited as to what they can do in the 2017 off season and free agency (anyone see a pattern here). The Texans will not be much in the way of off season players so a repeat or step back looks inevitable. Especially when you consider in 2017 the Titans will have $75MM in cap space, Jags 67MM and the Colts $60MM compared to the Texans $25MM.
I know you've your sources and trust your information and what you have told me. I have no doubt that Smith coveted Nix but I do believe that it was Romeo that pulled that string.
