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Should we cut Domanick Davis ?

Should the Texans cut Domanick Davis?

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Regardless, if we're in the same situation next year he will get cut. Yes I know its looking way ahead. One season to get right or get cut/retire.
 
kbourda said:
I couldn't agree with you more! DD has bust his ass to be the RB we all wished we had. Now he can't play a few preseason games and throw him under the bus, right. Hell, if the Texans can hold out hope for a guy who has yet to see a regular season game (Joppru) I know holding out for DD should not be a problem.
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& joppru has more people pulling for him....... go figure.
 
MYDAUGHTER'STEXANS said:
So any takers on this one, If Cris Brown comes here from the Titans do we lose DD?
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I think they are exclusive of one another. DD gets cut and Brown was just a ploy. The more I take the pulse around this Brown thing and Kubiak's comments yesterday on DD I think that the Texans are less than thrilled with DD's Doctor's prognosis or DD's response to such prognosis. Basically I think they are trying to find the truth themselves. I trust Kubiak on the field, but right now, based on my own experience as a fomer agent, the coach is the PR guy on this one as he should be covering the player.

Why would Kubiak have him on the roster? He has to carry Faggins on there, there is no way he adds another player to it that is injured. IR him? How long? Is there a cost benefit? Will there be trade value for an unknown? Those are the questions. DD has been a nice player, but in reality there are no flashback memories of greatness, there is no real legacy, he was a nice player taking advantage of a bad situation in my opinion. I like DD and respect his tenure, but we are about business the last week of the exhibition season and if you can't suit up for an undetermined time that does not help anyone.
 
DD has an avg of 4 yrds/carry with everbody on the planet knowing we were going to run, with no real OL scheme, so now with Kubiak and company DD will be a 1600 yrd back easy, if he is healthy. But you should never cut the man that made the offense go, when ever it did go, to bring in a sub. We keep DD, get him healthy, and be the team we all know it can be.
 
srstex said:
DD has an avg of 4 yrds/carry with everbody on the planet knowing we were going to run, with no real OL scheme, so now with Kubiak and company DD will be a 1600 yrd back easy, if he is healthy. But you should never cut the man that made the offense go, when ever it did go, to bring in a sub. We keep DD, get him healthy, and be the team we all know it can be.
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We ran more pass plays than rushing plays last season, I don't know how that would tip teams off that we were going to run the ball...And Kubiak does not use one back exclusively, so even if Davis was healthy I highly doubt he would gain 1600 yards on the ground.
 
Kaiser Toro said:
I think they are exclusive of one another. DD gets cut and Brown was just a ploy. The more I take the pulse around this Brown thing and Kubiak's comments yesterday on DD I think that the Texans are less than thrilled with DD's Doctor's prognosis or DD's response to such prognosis. Basically I think they are trying to find the truth themselves. I trust Kubiak on the field, but right now, based on my own experience as a fomer agent, the coach is the PR guy on this one as he should be covering the player.

Why would Kubiak have him on the roster? He has to carry Faggins on there, there is no way he adds another player to it that is injured. IR him? How long? Is there a cost benefit? Will there be trade value for an unknown? Those are the questions. DD has been a nice player, but in reality there are no flashback memories of greatness, there is no real legacy, he was a nice player taking advantage of a bad situation in my opinion. I like DD and respect his tenure, but we are about business the last week of the exhibition season and if you can't suit up for an undetermined time that does not help anyone.
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Great Point Kaiser Toro............thanks for the info......
 
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2565978

We are not cutting him.

Moving to debunk reports that tailback Domanick Davis could be released because of lingering knee problems that have kept him off the field for virtually all of training camp, Houston Texans first-year coach Gary Kubiak said there has been no discussion of cutting the leading rusher in franchise history, and said that the worst-case scenario was a season spent on the injured reserve list.


"The idea of cutting Domanick Davis has not even played a factor," said Kubiak, who is clearly frustrated by Davis' continuing absence, but not yet ready to give up on the three-year veteran. "I don't know where that came from. The decision is strictly [whether] his knee is going to be healthy enough to play. If his knee is not healthy enough to play, if that is the decision that's made about him, then he's looking at [an injured reserve] season ... The other choice has never been a factor."
 
We should keep him because it is in his head that he is not healthy so sit him let him watch. Once he see's that we can run the ball without him he will want to play even with pain and maybe he has a decent year and opens up trade bait for next years draft or player. What would it hurt if we just cut him we take a cap hit and we really don't want that. Her's a question which would you rather cut Davis or Smith my vote Smith he just look's old.
 
Kaiser Toro said:
I think they are exclusive of one another. DD gets cut and Brown was just a ploy. The more I take the pulse around this Brown thing and Kubiak's comments yesterday on DD I think that the Texans are less than thrilled with DD's Doctor's prognosis or DD's response to such prognosis. Basically I think they are trying to find the truth themselves. I trust Kubiak on the field, but right now, based on my own experience as a fomer agent, the coach is the PR guy on this one as he should be covering the player.

Why would Kubiak have him on the roster? He has to carry Faggins on there, there is no way he adds another player to it that is injured. IR him? How long? Is there a cost benefit? Will there be trade value for an unknown? Those are the questions. DD has been a nice player, but in reality there are no flashback memories of greatness, there is no real legacy, he was a nice player taking advantage of a bad situation in my opinion. I like DD and respect his tenure, but we are about business the last week of the exhibition season and if you can't suit up for an undetermined time that does not help anyone.
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KT, I am interested in your thoughts as a former agent on this hypothesis.

It was interesting to me that Kubes specifically discussed a meeting with coaches, management, DD and his agent. Clearly if DD is unable to play this year the cost benefit doesnt look very appealing for the team. So I am wondering if the "right" thing to do here in to negotiate a reduction in the cost of the option of having DD available next year (perhaps after spending this year on IR). Would it be unreasonable to think that the team is looking to restructure his contract to a more incentive laden one (perhaps with easily achievable playing time incentives next year) in an effort to make the cost/benefit or risk/reward more acceptable?

It would seem that is DD is unable to achieve certain minmum playing times next year (aside from one of our current backs really blowing it up this year) then he would probably have to seriously consider retirement.
 
feebleminded said:
KT, I am interested in your thoughts as a former agent on this hypothesis.

It was interesting to me that Kubes specifically discussed a meeting with coaches, management, DD and his agent. Clearly if DD is unable to play this year the cost benefit doesnt look very appealing for the team. So I am wondering if the "right" thing to do here in to negotiate a reduction in the cost of the option of having DD available next year (perhaps after spending this year on IR). Would it be unreasonable to think that the team is looking to restructure his contract to a more incentive laden one (perhaps with easily achievable playing time incentives next year) in an effort to make the cost/benefit or risk/reward more acceptable?

It would seem that is DD is unable to achieve certain minmum playing times next year (aside from one of our current backs really blowing it up this year) then he would probably have to seriously consider retirement.
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Curtis Martin who is having difficulty coming back from a knee injury just made a deal like this greatly reducing his cap hit and with a negotiated further reduction if he were placed on IR in order to convince the Jets to keep him around and give him the chance to play.
 
infantrycak said:
Curtis Martin who is having difficulty coming back from a knee injury just made a deal like this greatly reducing his cap hit and with a negotiated further reduction if he were placed on IR in order to convince the Jets to keep him around and give him the chance to play.
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Thanks for the example ICAK, makes sense that they would be working on a similar type deal to me.
 
Yes hopefully a similar deal is in the works, for DD & the Texans....we should know by Thursday, that's when they are suppose to sit down and talk about it with his agent and doctors and DD:crutch: :crutch: :crutch:
 
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