Texans All Decade Team
 

Texans All-Decade Team. A few interesting choices.

http://www.houstontexans.com/news/AllDecadeTeam.asp

I'm making a one year team, and only considering the best years for each player. In this version I'm also making one little cheat, by moving Gary Walker to DT.

Defense:

DL:Antonio Smith Seth Payne Gary Walker Mario Williams
LB: Jamie Sharper Demeco Ryans Brian Cushing
DB: Aaron Glenn Eugene Wilson Bernard Pollard Demeco Ryans

Darn that FS. That DL may not get the most sacks in the league, but nobody runs against that D.

Offense:

OL: Duane Brown Chester Pitts Steve McKinney Fred Weary Eric Winston
WR/TE: AJ Kevin Walter Owen Daniels
QB: David Carr
Backs: Vonta Leach Steve Slayton

Considered cheating by putting Spencer at RG but he was a rookie in his only healthy season. Davis vs. Slayton is a toss-up. I am completely sold on Carr over Schaub however ;p

Jeez, some pickings are slim. It's amazing that out of our 8 year history we don't have 2 DT's or S's with any sort of sustained success.

I went with:

QB - Schaub
RB - Dom Davis
FB - Vonta Leach
WR - Andre Johnson, Kevin Walter
OT - Ephraim Salaam, Eric Winston
G - Chester Pitts, Fred Weary
C - Steve McKinney

DE - Mario Williams, Gary Walker
DT - Seth Payne, Travis Johnson
LB - Cushing, Ryans, Wong
CB - Dunta Robinson, Aaron Glenn
S - Marcus Coleman, Bernard Pollard

The poll should have included Zach Wiegert as a guard instead of as a tackle. He was possibly the best OL on the team for a period of time and played at RG when Todd Wade was signed.

And not that I would have voted for him, but I don't recall seeing Will Demps on the list. Considering the lack of options at safety, I thought he would have at least made the list ahead of a few of those other suspects.

I just must be in the minority, but I really liked Marlon McCree.

It's Domanick Williams now

I liked him too, as you know. He left the team without an offer and went to SD and continued to make an impact. Nice work, Casserly.

No playoff appearances? The All Decade team consists of the players listed below:

Casserly is numer uno in my Hall of Shame.

McRee was not very good with Houston though. Part of that was he didn't get a ton of playing time here and part was he didn't really do anything with what he got. So I'd lay his departure more at the feet of the coaching staff then anyone else. They had him and got nothing out of him. SD took him and got something out of him for a while.

I'm not sure I agree with any part of this. I recall his receiving substantial playing time and I remember his play standing out among the safeties. Not that that is an overwhelming recommendation...

I simply remember watching him play and realizing that he was better than anyone the Texans had at the time. The team obviously thought otherwise.

He played part time and was OK. That OK was better then Matt Stevens and most of the prior Texans safeties he could be compared to, but he was an NFL journeyman.

In his last season in Houston he had 29 tackles, 1 INT, and 3 passes defensed in 16 games. Assuming you are correct and he had substantial playing time, he did so without accomplishing much.

When a GM lets that kind of player go, I can't blame him.

When the same guy goes to Carolina the next season and triples his production, and then puts in 2 good years in SD, I question the coaching staff in Houston who got little out of him in two years.

It wasn't so much that he was making a bunch of big plays. What I liked about him was that he didn't get "beat deep" with a WR getting behind him. He always seemed to be in the area of the play and was efficient in his "help over the top" for the CBs.