Ex-Texan Phillip Buchanon Writes a Book

[HPF Bob]

...and not your ordinary "life in the NFL" book either. It's about money.

https://secure.mybookorders.com/Orderpage/1551

And, from CBS, one part is about how to tell off your mom who demands $1 million as her fee for raising you.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-...-i-was-drafted

Good ol' altruistic mommy dearest.

[nunusguy]

Buchannon performed badly here because as I recall he's basically a cover-2 corner and the Texans were running lots of man stuff back them. So bad fit just like Jason Babin ended up being a very good edge-rusher as a 4-3 DE but he was not suited to play as an OLB in Capers 3-4 which is what the Texans drafted him to do.

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by nunusguy

Buchannon performed badly here because as I recall he's basically a cover-2 corner and the Texans were running lots of man stuff back them. So bad fit just like Jason Babin ended up being a very good edge-rusher as a 4-3 DE but he was not suited to play as an OLB in Capers 3-4 which is what the Texans drafted him to do.

So your saying Casserly didn't understand players have fits and coaches have needs?

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by painekiller

So your saying Casserly didn't understand players have fits and coaches have needs?

A real possibility I'd say, but maybe it's something else like the communications between Casserly and the coaching staff was not good.
Of course that doesn't mean that Casserly didn't get Capers and his staff exactly who they wanted but the coaches could have overestimated their own ability to coach the players well enough to adapt to their defense. Who knows, could have been a lot of things or more likely it was a combo of things.

[HPF Bob]

I'm going to presume that Casserly wouldn't have traded away a 2nd, 3rd and 4th to a division rival just to get a player who had no background at that position in college without the head coach (Capers, in this case) pacing around like a caged tiger insisting he do it. Can't imagine Chatty Casserly doing that for any other reason. You don't stick your neck out like that without the coach's blessing.

In case you're curious, this is what the Titans did with those draft picks:

2nd round, No. 40: Ben Troupe, TE
3rd round, No. 71: Randy Starks, DT
4th round, No. 103: Bo Schobel, DE
5th round, No. 138 Jacob Bell, G (Texans and Titans swapped 5th round with the Texans then dealing it to Jacksonville for a 6th and a 7th)

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

I'm going to presume that Casserly wouldn't have traded away a 2nd, 3rd and 4th to a division rival just to get a player who had no background at that position in college without the head coach (Capers, in this case) pacing around like a caged tiger insisting he do it. Can't imagine Chatty Casserly doing that for any other reason. You don't stick your neck out like that without the coach's blessing.

In case you're curious, this is what the Titans did with those draft picks:

2nd round, No. 40: Ben Troupe, TE
3rd round, No. 71: Randy Starks, DT
4th round, No. 103: Bo Schobel, DE
5th round, No. 138 Jacob Bell, G (Texans and Titans swapped 5th round with the Texans then dealing it to Jacksonville for a 6th and a 7th)

Hey Bob you do know don't you that most NFL 3-4 OLBs have been first "hand-in-the-dirt" 4-3 DEs in college since historically they haven't run many 3-4 defenses in college. Even on our current roster both Clowney and Mercilus were 4-3 DEs in college as was the recently released Brooks Reed.