It looks like the Texans were really after Ryan Mathews when you look at Frank Bush's comments. I think San Diego caught Houston and Seattle by suprise when they jumped up to 12 and nabbed Mathews.
(on if they were set on a defensive player as the time got close) "We were set on defense. Of course you know there's two sides to the board as you look at the draft board and the offense had their guys that they really wanted and we had the guys that we wanted and as the things start to shake out, you know some things happened that we didn't forsee and then we had an opportunity to basically go back in and discuss the defensive players and this was a guy that we really wanted. He was a guy that we had really high on our draft board as far as defense is concerned and so that gave us an opportunity to go get him. We had a need in a lot of different positions as you guys understand and we were looking at running back but we also had a need at corner. We felt like this was a player that we had to go get."
I didn't like the 1st round only draft on a thursday night. It was too frantic of a pace and I really think alot of teams rushed their decisions. For all the millions these teams will be paying these 1st round players I think they should go back to the 15 minute per pick 1st round.
I do like our pick though. I think Frank Bush is a really good defensive coach and he knows how to get players that fit his scheme. As I've said before, the only way the Texans make the playoffs is to let Bush build an elite defense that can over come Kubiak's coaching blunders.
Last edited by bckey; 04-23-2010 at 05:05 AM.
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