Injury to Texans' Brisiel appears to be season-ending

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Originally Posted by mussop

If by prudent you mean it wouldnt make us better I dissagree.

By prudent, I mean people's feelings wouldn't be hurt. Eric Winston was a 3rd round pick who thought he should have been a 1st rounder. Instead of putting him at LT, he gets put at RT, and has done a very good job there. Then a rookie is selected in the 1st round to keep Eric on the RT in the name of Duane Brown. Now Oher comes in and either moves D. Brown to LG so Pitts could go to RG or Oher becomes the RT and moves Winston to RG. Anyway you slice that, the OL would be jumbled (remember when people were talking about how nice it was to have continuity on the OL and no injuries allowed them to play 16 games together?).

I'm not saying any of the above scenarios wouldn't have been better on paper, I'm saying it would have pissed PEOPLE off who actually put on the uniform and play on Sunday. Basically it would just look bad and hurt too many egos including people like Rick Smith, Alex Gibbs, and Gary Kubiak.

Anway, that is water under the bridge. The OL is now 40% injured and we are needing to scramble. The new guy (Caldwell) may get in the lineup so we can see what he's got. Chis White or Rashad Butler are also on the roster for these "just in case" scenarios, so we can see what that looks like. Who knows, maybe the run game will improve?