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Shaft75 said:
How in the hell can I space that the right way? It comes out pretty sloppy.
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Code: 
                           G GS TCKL Int FF 
2009 New England Patriots 15 14   55   5  1  
2008 Detroit Lions        16 15   73   1  3 
2007 Cleveland Browns     16 16   88   6  0 
2006 Cleveland Browns      9  9   30   2  1  
2005 Cleveland Browns     13 11   56   3  2

What's the problem?
 
Super Mario said:
If McNair's free agent spending habits dont belong in the Texans Free Agency Chatter, then where the hell does it belong?
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It's basically thinly veiled McNair bashing again and again because some people don't get enough. I don't think the Free Agency thread needs a "McNair sucks because he won't spend money" every 3rd post because THAT particular point has been brought up time and again already. How about the Free Agency thread be for new news about Free Agency? Can we have that or should we just turn every thread that we possibly can into a debate on McNair's spending habits and Kubiak extensions?
 
You can all thank Bob for this forum too.

It's true... There wouldn't be a TexansTalk without the Texans. And the Texans wouldn't be, without McNair.
 
Thorn said:
I don't have an answer for you because I don't know. Even if McNair is not a good owner, or Kubiak is not a great coach, I'm still glad we have football back in town. And we are NOT or even close to being the worst organization in football.

And now you've dragged me into this and I wasn't going to be. Crap, it's time to go home and start drinking. It's Friday after all.
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Qft!! :barman:
 
Super Mario said:
Damn you defend McNair like he is your Grandpa. Have an original though for once. What has McNair done for you that you will go to war for him?

8 years of awful to mediocre football. THANK YOU MCNAIR!!!
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He brought football back to Houston.

How many years have the Lions, Brown, Saints (before this year) been mediocre?

You guys just like bashing someone because He does not do what you think he should?
 
Texan_Bill said:
That cheapskate saved you about 8 years without football. Remember it was that cheapskate that brought football back here otherwise we would've been 15 years removed from having a team. Remember that??
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A losing team, that was bought by bottom line guy.

Lets just call him Bud McNair.

When Bud did the same thing Bob is doing he was run out of town on a rail. (takig profit) The difference is Bud did it to the tax payers using the Astrodome as leverage and Bob is using Reliant as his mechanism to put it to the populace.

There's really not much difference between the two. But not having a team should make fans have to worship at emperor Bob's feet.
 
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I don't understand the hate coming from some guys. What did you expect us to do? The guys we are loosing are guys we who haven't performed well for us. Except for Kevin Walter, I'm not overly upset that we let Dunta and Chester Pitts go. And KW might still sign with us. Our main goal right now should be to sign OD, DeMeco, Pollard to new deals. It's the first day in free agency and the teams making the big splash are teams that are bad. Look at the Lions and Bears, two teams that were bad last year and they need to make big signings to appease their fan base and save jobs. The Texans will sign some guys, but just give it some time.
 
steelbtexan said:
A losing team, that was bought by bottom line guy.

Lets just call him Bud McNair.

When Bud did the same thing Bob is doing he was run out of town on a rail. (takig profit) The difference is Bud did it to the tax payers using the Astrodome as leverage and Bob is using Reliant as his mechanism to put to the populace.

There's really not much difference between the two.
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Hey you two guys can give me your PSL's and season tickets since you are so upset with it all.
 
It's coming from the Gobbler, so take it FWIW.

The Houston Chronicle disputes rumors that the Texans have lined up a free agent visit for CB Leigh Bodden.

We've not seen this rumor, but Bodden's market is heating up with Dunta Robinson all set to sign with Atlanta. The Chronicle does confirm that the Texans have contacted Bodden's agent. The Patriots have interest in retaining their top corner, but Houston, Pittsburgh, and Seattle are in the mix.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl...t+(HoustonChronicle.com+--+Houston+Texans+Foo
 
steelbtexan said:
A losing team, that was bought by bottom line guy.

Lets just call him Bud McNair.

When Bud did the same thing Bob is doing he was run out of town on a rail. (takig profit) The difference is Bud did it to the tax payers using the Astrodome as leverage and Bob is using Reliant as his mechanism to put to the populace.

There's really not much difference between the two.
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I don't care how rich you are, $750,000,000.00 is not cheap. BTW, most business men are "bottom line" guys, otherwise they wouldn't be in business very long.

By that logic, all 31 other team's owners are the same.
 
Grams said:
He brought football back to Houston.

How many years have the Lions, Brown, Saints (before this year) been mediocre?

You guys just like bashing someone because He does not do what you think he should?
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No fair bringing clear thought and logic onto a message board. You should know better.:firehair:
 
Super Mario said:
Besides my season ticket dues?

I lived in Austin. Longhorn Football is 10 fold better than Texans football.
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Let's not forget that longhorn football produced these 2 assclowns:

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Ole Miss Texan said:
My point is that we don't have the privelage of knowing what's going on. It's all blind assertions that carry no weight. It just as easily could have been that Rick Smith called Taylor's agent and inquired about him coming to visit. Agent responds, we're very interested, Houston looks to be a great opportunity for Chester, let's line something up for early next week. We have a visit on Friday and will fly to Houston on Monday. Chester meets with the Bears where he already knows some players well, loves the city and signs with them.

But our jump-to-conclusions mat says, "McClain hasn't reported that Chester is visiting Houston nor has there been a report that expresses the Texans have a firm interest in Taylor and/or will offer him X amount of $'s... therefore McNair is a cheap SOB and is running this franchise into the ground."

I think I must be one of the few that thinks if we don't close on a high profile FA 12 hours into free agency that we still have a fighting chance to improve our team. I think everyone is just so desperate for a winning team that no news is bad news... and I DO understand that. I wish we could all know more about the inner workings of Kubiak/Smith/McNair but at the end of the day it's probably better they don't discuss much with the media.
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Excellent post but few will agree. I want what I want and I want it now especially if someone else is paying is the mantra of some.
 
b0ng said:
So the Chronicle can't get their own sports writers on the same page? I'm not shocked.

I'm really hoping that we can land Bodden, but honestly if he wants more than what Dunta wanted last off season I don't know. That will hurt once (if) the salary cap comes back.
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Well, if we did bring him in at a higher cost, it'd be clear as day that Dunta and Smith had some real problems. I'm beginning to think that anyway. Smith just didn't want Dunta back no matter what.

Just my opinion, of course
 
Super Mario said:
Damn you defend McNair like he is your Grandpa. Have an original though for once. What has McNair done for you that you will go to war for him?

8 years of awful to mediocre football. THANK YOU MCNAIR!!!
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No. I know the man's made mistakes but to call the guy cheap is asinine. I also know that without him it would be 15 years now with NO football, which also means no tailgating, which also means no passion for the NFL, which ultimately means boring ass Sundays.
 
steelbtexan said:
A losing team, that was bought by bottom line guy.

Lets just call him Bud McNair.

When Bud did the same thing Bob is doing he was run out of town on a rail. (takig profit) The difference is Bud did it to the tax payers using the Astrodome as leverage and Bob is using Reliant as his mechanism to put to the populace.

There's really not much difference between the two. But not having a team should make fans have to worship at emperor Bob's feet.
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Man you are re-writing history! Adams got a tremendous sweet heart deal from Tennessee. Fans were mad at him but he was not run out on a rail.
 
Super Mario said:
Damn you defend McNair like he is your Grandpa. Have an original though for once. What has McNair done for you that you will go to war for him?

8 years of awful to mediocre football. THANK YOU MCNAIR!!!
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If it wasn't for McNair we would not even be having this conversation. 8 years of bad to mediocre football is better than NO football which is what we would have had.
 
Texan_Bill said:
No. I know the man's made mistakes but to call the guy cheap is asinine. I also know that without him it would be 15 years now with NO football, which also means no tailgating, which also means no passion for the NFL, which ultimately means boring ass Sundays.
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Bottom Line for me (because I'm a business guy): I would rather suffer from medicore football than to suffer from NO football...
 
Shaft75 said:
You can all thank Bob for this forum too.

It's true... There wouldn't be a TexansTalk without the Texans. And the Texans wouldn't be, without McNair.
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Shaft,

Maybe we'd be without the Texans. But TexansTalk was formed by Hookem and a handful others in response to a fan unfriendly, non responsive original HoustonTexans message board. Despite a long line of unheard complaints directed to the Texans, and with direct appeals to McNair (including my own), it fell on deaf ears............Hence, the fortune of what we all now enjoy.:texflag:
 
HOU-TEX said:
Well, if we did bring him in at a higher cost, it'd be clear as day that Dunta and Smith had some real problems. I'm beginning to think that anyway. Smith just didn't want Dunta back no matter what.

Just my opinion, of course
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I suppose being one of like 3 CB's even available will also raise his price somewhat. Still, if you aren't going to re-sign Dunta then you turn around and give this guy a bigger contract it makes the GM look like an asshole more than anything else.

Oh well, my feelings on it right now are that Bodden will end up signing somewhere else, Neal will re-sign with the Pats and fans here will continue to rage against the machine.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Shaft,

Maybe we'd be without the Texans. But TexansTalk was formed by Hookem and a handful others in response to a fan unfriendly, non responsive original HoustonTexans message board. Despite a long line of unheard complaints directed to the Texans, and with direct appeals to McNair (including my own), it fell on deaf ears............Hence, the fortune of what we all now enjoy.:texflag:
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I meant in an indirect way.

Hookem and others are to thank directly. That's why I try and contribute when I can.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Shaft,

Maybe we'd be without the Texans. But TexansTalk was formed by Hookem and a handful others in response to a fan unfriendly, non responsive original HoustonTexans message board. Despite a long line of unheard complaints directed to the Texans, and with direct appeals to McNair (including my own), it fell on deaf ears............Hence, the fortune of what we all now enjoy.:texflag:
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IIRC TexansTalk was originally created by Hookem for the Blue Crewers and FILO. :thinking:
 
Texan_Bill said:
IIRC TexansTalk was originally created by Hookem for the Blue Crewers and FILO. :thinking:
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You're correct, but if you remember, it was not until the events I chronicled that there was a WHOLESALE migration from the "official" site to TexansTalk, making it the best message board in the entire NFL.:fans:
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
You're correct, but if you remember, it was not until the events I chronicled that there was a WHOLESALE migration from the "official" site to TexansTalk, making it the best message board in the entire NFL.:fans:
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Absolutely, you're correct about the migration. I was merely pointing out TexansTalk's existence prior to said migration.
 
Texans bringing in Wade Smith. Versatile O-linemen who can play G and C.


McClain_on_NFL Texans bringing n chiefs G Wade Smith, 8-year veteran, this weekend.
 
HoustonSportsFan09 said:
Texans bringing in Wade Smith. Versatile O-linemen who can play G and C.


McClain_on_NFL Texans bringing n chiefs G Wade Smith, 8-year veteran, this weekend.
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Smith is a Starting caliber G(was #23 overall). So that is a solis potential starter. If we sign him, I can see him starting at LG next to Brown and Caldwell starting at RG next to Winston with Myers in the Middle.
 
Texan_Bill said:
16 hours ago? I was under the impression free agency started at 12:01 (Eastern) today? :thinking:
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Where's your military time Bill? 4:00 pm is 1600 hours, which mean 16 hours after midnight.

NVM.....saw you had the "eastern" time zone referance. My bad.....
 
awtysst said:
Smith is a Starting caliber G(was #23 overall). So that is a solis potential starter. If we sign him, I can see him starting at LG next to Brown and Caldwell starting at RG next to Winston with Myers in the Middle.
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I was okay until the bolded part.
 
Texan_Bill said:
I was okay until the bolded part.
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If the Texans could draft a guy to start that'd be great, but I don't know if there are players like that in this years draft (Would've loved to have had a shot at Unger in the 2nd last year).
 
I just want to throw up when I see an article that says the Texans are high on Studdard. I love the heart, but man that dude sucks.
 
Apparently Wade Smith can play all but 1 position along the Oline. Which 1 that is, I don't know. LT?
 
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