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PapaL said:
This is the first report I hear anything about Braxton and it's not good. Did I miss the positive news?
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JB said:
Arrow is mostly pointing up?
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During OTAs, the only lame comments that could be mustered were that he was putting effort out there every day and that he was making progress........the same comments now being made. "Making progress" is the best you can compliment a receiver in his 3rd year?
 
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CloakNNNdagger said:
During OTAs, the only lame comments that could be mustered were that he was putting effort out there every day and that he was making progress....t.....he same comments now being made. "Making progress" is the best you can compliment a receiver in his 3rd year?
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yeah
 
PapaL said:
This is the first report I hear anything about Braxton and it's not good. Did I miss the positive news?
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Braxton Miller and especially Will Fuller, both have game-changing abilities with their speed and quickness. Like Keyshawn Johnson said on ESPN "Just catch the damn ball man!" (that was in reference to the Texans vs. Patriots playoff game a few years ago when Fuller dropped a potential Touchdown pass)... If they just worked on the basics both could become premier talents at wide receiver.
 
Good Read from Peter King - https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...luck-indianapolis-colts-camp-fmia-peter-king/

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — I don’t know how anyone could figure out, reliably, how J.J. Watt will play in 2018 and beyond. The safest thing to say is that Watt and the aforementioned Andrew Luck are the two leaders for Comeback Player of the Year, because of their fabulous talent and because of what they’re trying to come back from. Watt missed 24 of 32 games with injuries in the last two years, and he’s in camp now trying to rebound from a severe leg break last season.

Perhaps we don’t actually forget how great Watt was in his four top seasons, 2012 to 2015; we just fail to remember it. In his best four consecutive seasons rushing the passer, Lawrence Taylor had 63 sacks. All-time sack leader Bruce Smith had 55 in his best four years in a row. In 2012-15, Watt had 69 … and he wasn’t freed up to rush around the edge to get to the passer much. “Those ’14 and ’15 seasons were arguably two of the best seasons any player at any position has ever had,” said coach Bill O’Brien. “I remember we’re playing Baltimore in ’14, and they’re driving, and it’s late, and our guys are just exhausted. I remember J.J. looked over at me and basically said, If you give me a timeout here, I’ll get to Flacco. So I call time. We get a breather. That next play, J.J. strip-sacks Flacco. Game over. We win.”

O’Brien, in a break after a training camp practice, paused. “That’s what I’m seeing now, this summer. That’s the kind of play I’m seeing from him. There’s no reason he can’t do it again.”
I met Watt after a morning practice on the fields of the Greenbrier Resort the other day. He barely practiced, a plan by O’Brien to keep Watt fresh for the season. A quick Q&A with the 29-year-old reigning SI Sportsman of the Year:

King: Are you convinced you’ll be able to be great again?

Watt: “Right. I don’t expect anybody else to be convinced. I don’t expect anybody outside to have any reason to believe that. The last two years were two very bad years. There were some dark moments in there. But I’ve also come out the other side of it better because of some of the experiences that I had. So I’m just taking it one day at a time. I’m not going to stand here and pretend like I can tell you exactly what’s going to happen in the season or how it’s going to go. But I feel very good with where I’m at right now. I’m not going to make any proclamations about comparing things to the past or what I’m going to do in the future, but I will say I feel very good.”

King: What was the darkest moment for you with that severe leg break last year?

Watt: “For the first two months, you can’t walk. You can’t do anything. You pretty much lay on the couch 24 hours a day. You have to have people help take care of you. I watched TV for most of it. Tried to sleep. But my girlfriend, my family, some of my buddies, you literally have to have people help you get food, clean up the place. I can’t help bring in the groceries. I can’t help make the food. I can’t help clean up the dishes. I needed help getting a shower. I needed help cleaning up.”

King: What’s the lesson that sticks with you about the millions you raised after the floods?

Watt: “No matter how negative or cynical the view of the world that you have, there are good people out there. There is this beautiful thing about humanity. When they see their fellow human going through a tough time, they step up to help out. I’ll never forget the sights of people helping, the words of encouragement. All the different ways that I saw people step up and help out. I think that in today’s times, there’s so many negative headlines and there’s so much negativity going around in the world. I saw a beautiful display of positivity, enthusiasm and hope during that time.

King: Think you’ll ever win a fourth Defensive Player of the Year award?

Watt: “That’s the goal. It’s not the only goal, but it’s a goal. But I’ll give you this answer. My family, my friends, my teammates, and my girlfriend, they all know the answer to that question. But you won’t know the answer to that question. You’re just on the fringe of that, Peter. You’re not in the group.”

King: Why the close relationship with Jose Altuve?

Watt: “I love the guy. I love the guy to death. I think that what he’s been able to accomplish, despite what anybody probably has said or would’ve said in his career based on his size and his stature, I mean, the guy’s incredible. I still can’t figure it out. I mean I’ve watched him hit numerous times. I still can’t figure out how the hell he does it. But my favorite thing about Jose is how he’s handled everything throughout it all. He’s the exact same guy, every single day.
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off season ticking by..will Steelers cut a QB that could find their way to Houston?
That leaves me to believe that Jones has the edge over Dobbs for a final spot... but that's also making the assumption of there being a "final spot". What I mean by that statement is that the Steelers could do something against the grain and roster four quarterbacks, rather than three, in 2018. If there were any year the Steelers could pull this off, it would be 2018. Their secondary is not only deep with talent but also deep with versatility. This could allow them to roster one less cornerback or safety this season. While they could just as easily put Joshua Dobbs on their practice squad, to make room for another defensive back or linebacker, they would be playing with fire from the onset of doing so. Dobbs would have to clear waivers, with his former offensive coordinator Todd Haley, now with the quarterback-starved Cleveland Browns, having the first crack at claiming him.
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https://www.steelcityunderground.com/2018/06/08/could-the-steelers-keep-4-quarterbacks-in-2018/

If one of the three backups were to be let go, I doubt he would fall to Texans but I can hope.
 
steelbtexan said:
The Texans are 4th in line on the WW.

The article is wrong, the Browns aren't QB starved.
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Picking 4th, OK I like that !
I predict young GM Gaine will once again impress us with his NFL personnel acumen and pick-up at least one offensive tackle from the WW who will make it on our 53-man roster.
 
steelbtexan said:
The Texans are 4th in line on the WW.

The article is wrong, the Browns aren't QB starved.
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So do we get 4th chance to pick on every player available? Or if we choose 1 then we go to back of the line?
If we get 4th chance on every player then I see us picking up a RB, Wr, TE, along with OL and maybe even a QB.
 
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gafftop said:
So do we get 4th chance to pick on every player available? Or if we choose 1 then we go to back of the line?
If we get 4th chance on every player then I see us picking up a RB, Wr, TE, along with OL and maybe even a QB.
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The waiver wire pick order determined by last year's standings remains the same for each player going through waivers, until after Week 3 when the order reflects the team standings at the time (#32 team pick at WW#1).
 
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gafftop said:
So do we get 4th chance to pick on every player available? Or if we choose 1 then we go to back of the line?
If we get 4th chance on every player then I see us picking up a RB, Wr, TE, along with OL and maybe even a QB.
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Just to note.........that's the way it works in Fantasy Football..........not in the NFL.
 
IDEXAN said:
Picking 4th, OK I like that !
I predict young GM Gaine will once again impress us with his NFL personnel acumen and pick-up at least one offensive tackle from the WW who will make it on our 53-man roster.
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Love the enthusiasm but OT's that are starters rarely hit the WW.
 
steelbtexan said:
Love the enthusiasm but OT's that are starters rarely hit the WW.
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Waiver Wire pickups can also create solid depth on your team. It's not just about upgrading the starters on your team, but upgrading the back end as well..teams usually don't finish the season with their opening day starting line playing all 16 games.
 
Carr Bombed said:
Waiver Wire pickups can also create solid depth on your team. It's not just about upgrading the starters on your team, but upgrading the back end as well..teams usually don't finish the season with their opening day starting line playing all 16 games.
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Understood, I was just trying to make the anti BOB, Gaine crowd learn not to expect to find pro bowl level players are going to be signed off of the WW.
 
Huh? How bout if he just makes it through most of the season?

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J.J. Watt is the betting favorite to win Defensive Player of the Year
August 8, 2018, 10:25 AM EDT

Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt won three Defensive Player of the Year awards in his first five NFL seasons. But after serious injuries the last two years, can Watt regain that form?

He can according to the oddsmakers who have installed him as the favorite to win this year’s award. Bovada has Watt, at 5-1 odds, as the favorite to win it.

After Watt comes Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa and two players who are currently holding out in contract disputes, Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald and Raiders defensive end Khalil Mack, all at 11-2 odds.

Others given a decent chance of winning the award are Von Miller at 9-1 and Jalen Ramsey at 14-1. Luke Kuechly, Cameron Jordan and DeMarcus Lawrence are all at 22-1. Chandler Jones is at 30-1, while Calais Campbell, Fletcher Cox, Myles Garrett and Harrison Smith at at 33-1.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Huh? How bout if he just makes it through most of the season?

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J.J. Watt is the betting favorite to win Defensive Player of the Year
August 8, 2018, 10:25 AM EDT

Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt won three Defensive Player of the Year awards in his first five NFL seasons. But after serious injuries the last two years, can Watt regain that form?

He can according to the oddsmakers who have installed him as the favorite to win this year’s award. Bovada has Watt, at 5-1 odds, as the favorite to win it.

After Watt comes Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa and two players who are currently holding out in contract disputes, Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald and Raiders defensive end Khalil Mack, all at 11-2 odds.

Others given a decent chance of winning the award are Von Miller at 9-1 and Jalen Ramsey at 14-1. Luke Kuechly, Cameron Jordan and DeMarcus Lawrence are all at 22-1. Chandler Jones is at 30-1, while Calais Campbell, Fletcher Cox, Myles Garrett and Harrison Smith at at 33-1.
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They spelled “Comeback Player of the Year” award wrong.
 
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NFL's top 18 games of the 2018 season: The must-see matchups

12) Dallas Cowboys at Houston Texans
Week 5: Sunday, October 7 at 8:20 p.m. ET on NBC

Only one Cowboys game makes this list. For good reason, too. Specifically, Dallas won’t be all that good. Afraid Jason Garrett’s group could be in for another meh 9-7 campaign. What makes this matchup stellar is that it features a rare intra-state meeting between these two organizations, combined with the fact that both should at least contend for the playoffs (though it will be an uphill battle for the team three hours north of Houston). While on the subject of the Texans, the return of J.J. Watt — and what kind of player he’ll be at this stage of his career — has been lost in the underpass of Deshaun Watson’s expressway to stardom. Of course, we don’t know what to make of the latter’s return from a serious injury of his own. Yet with Watt back in the fold, Whitney Mercilus’ return and the Honey Badger’s arrival, Houston looks formidable on all sides of the ball.

7) Houston Texans at New England Patriots
Week 1: Sunday, September 9 at 1 p.m. ET on CBS

Revisionist history has declared that Deshaun Watson’s coming-out party officially came to be when he torched the Seahawks for nearly 500 yards of offense near the end of last October. Yet, his real emergence occurred 35 days prior, when he stuck right with Tom Brady during a roller-coaster shootout in Foxborough. Watson threw for over three bills against the defending champs in just his second NFL start, adding several quality runs to keep the Texans in the game. Until they weren’t. Despite Houston losing 36-33, Watson made quite an impression on the league. Of course, the week following Watson’s aforementioned single-man uprising in Seattle, football fans lost him for the season. That’s right: Not just Texans faithful, but fans everywhere. For all the fanfare generated by Ezekiel Elliott in 2016 and Todd Gurley in ‘15 and Odell Beckham Jr. in ’14, Watson was the most exciting rookie to enter the NFL in years. Unfortunately, his debut campaign constituted of a fleeting fraction of the schedule. Now we’re champing at the bit for more in 2018.
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He gave him something alright...

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In response to Injury thread post by Optimistic Texans on trading for Khalil Mack:

he became the first first-team All-Pro in NFL history to be selected by the Associated Press for two different positions in the same year, as a defensive end and outside linebacker.
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I think new coach Gruden is trying to establish his control.
When asked last week about Mack's holdout for a contract extension that would make him one of the NFL's highest-paid defensive players, Gruden was quick to point out that, even with the league's 2016 defensive player of the year, Oakland's defense was not great in 2017. General manager Reggie McKenzie told Raider Nation not to panic, but it's hard to buy those rational thoughts.


Regardless of when or if Gruden has talked to Mack, there clearly is a huge disconnect between the superstar player and the Raiders decision-makers. The team is the side that needs to do more to bridge the gap.
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http://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/...ntract-news-update/10lculodotner1mp8bf8f50d7l

Similar to Clowney being in 5th year of rookie deal and about same $ Mack at 13.8 and JD at $12.3 Main focus for me is Oakland cap space at just over two million dollars and Houston at $35 million with much more available beyond this number. I don't think we can afford to give Gruden what it would take to get Mack but I would love to have him. As I have Texans drafting OLB high in 2019, Mack would eliminate that need so I would give up our first for Mack and maybe first or second in 2020. I just don't see a trade occuring.
 
badboy said:
In response to Injury thread post by Optimistic Texans on trading for Khalil Mack:

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I think new coach Gruden is trying to establish his control. http://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/...ntract-news-update/10lculodotner1mp8bf8f50d7l

Similar to Clowney being in 5th year of rookie deal and about same $ Mack at 13.8 and JD at $12.3 Main focus for me is Oakland cap space at just over two million dollars and Houston at $35 million with much more available beyond this number. I don't think we can afford to give Gruden what it would take to get Mack but I would love to have him. As I have Texans drafting OLB high in 2019, Mack would eliminate that need so I would give up our first for Mack and maybe first or second in 2020. I just don't see a trade occuring.
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Trade them straight up; Clowney for Mack.
 
Hope this does not become a distraction for Hopkins.
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Texans star DeAndre Hopkins, Iggy Azalea say they're no longer dating
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Updated 10:34 am CDT, Thursday, August 9, 2018
Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins and pop star Iggy Azalea appeared to date briefly this offseason.

A day after pop star Iggy Azalea confirmed in a radio interview that she was dating Texans star DeAndre Hopkins, both sides of the relationship took to Twitter to announce that they're single.

First, Azalea tweeted that she was single just before midnight Wednesday.

Hopkins, who is in Kansas City for the Texans' first preseason game of the year and perhaps sleeping through Azalea's announcement, tweeted first thing Thursday morning: "Y'all know I can care less about social media, but ya boi is SINGLE!!"

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CloakNNNdagger said:
Hope this does not become a distraction for Hopkins.
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Texans star DeAndre Hopkins, Iggy Azalea say they're no longer dating
By Matt Young

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Updated 10:34 am CDT, Thursday, August 9, 2018
Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins and pop star Iggy Azalea appeared to date briefly this offseason.

A day after pop star Iggy Azalea confirmed in a radio interview that she was dating Texans star DeAndre Hopkins, both sides of the relationship took to Twitter to announce that they're single.

First, Azalea tweeted that she was single just before midnight Wednesday.

Hopkins, who is in Kansas City for the Texans' first preseason game of the year and perhaps sleeping through Azalea's announcement, tweeted first thing Thursday morning: "Y'all know I can care less about social media, but ya boi is SINGLE!!"

THE REST OF THE STORY
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I hope he stays away from the Kardashians. They are bad luck. Ask harden.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Hope this does not become a distraction for Hopkins.
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Texans star DeAndre Hopkins, Iggy Azalea say they're no longer dating
By Matt Young

920x920.jpg



Updated 10:34 am CDT, Thursday, August 9, 2018
Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins and pop star Iggy Azalea appeared to date briefly this offseason.

A day after pop star Iggy Azalea confirmed in a radio interview that she was dating Texans star DeAndre Hopkins, both sides of the relationship took to Twitter to announce that they're single.

First, Azalea tweeted that she was single just before midnight Wednesday.

Hopkins, who is in Kansas City for the Texans' first preseason game of the year and perhaps sleeping through Azalea's announcement, tweeted first thing Thursday morning: "Y'all know I can care less about social media, but ya boi is SINGLE!!"

THE REST OF THE STORY
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Bwhahaha one night stand
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Virtually no commentary re. the Texans. You would have never known anything about what Texan did what.
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Seriously, I was multi-tasking with the game on and thought I imagined that the Texans scored a TD and an interception and it was not acknowledged because there was a GM who needed to be interviewed... so it was not just me.
 
Texans WR Quan Bray on his mother's murder: 'It made me a man before I was a man'
Aug. 13, 2018 Updated: Aug. 13, 2018 1:58 p.m.

Emblazoned on the right arm of new Texans wide receiver Quan Bray is a tattoo of his mother's face directly above a message commemorating her.

It says: "R.I.P. Tonya."

Before Bray arrived on the Auburn campus for his freshman year of college, his estranged father, Jeffery Jones, murdered his mother in a tragic shooting in LaGrange, Ga.

Jones turned himself in within an hour of her death on July 3, 2011 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of murder.

Tonya Bray was shot during a car chase that ended in a wreck, according to police reports. Jones pulled up next to Bray in a green car and fired several shots at her, causing the car to crash.

The tattoo is the first thing Bray looks at each day.

"It made me a man before I became a man," Bray said Monday following his first practice with the Texans. "This is football. I love the game. Just come out here and have fun and everything else will fall into place."

A blue-chip recruit at the time, Bray has done what he could to overcome the loss of his beloved mother and set an example for his younger brother, Jymere.

"Just be a positive role model for my younger brother and show him there's a way out," Bray said, "No matter what we go through."
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Texans WR Quan Bray on his mother's murder: 'It made me a man before I was a man'
Aug. 13, 2018 Updated: Aug. 13, 2018 1:58 p.m.

Emblazoned on the right arm of new Texans wide receiver Quan Bray is a tattoo of his mother's face directly above a message commemorating her.

It says: "R.I.P. Tonya."

Before Bray arrived on the Auburn campus for his freshman year of college, his estranged father, Jeffery Jones, murdered his mother in a tragic shooting in LaGrange, Ga.

Jones turned himself in within an hour of her death on July 3, 2011 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of murder.

...Bray has done what he could to overcome the loss of his beloved mother and set an example for his younger brother, Jymere.

"Just be a positive role model..."
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So, a feel good story. Steelb is going to be hating on this guy and saying the father is who the Texans should have signed.
 
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