How Tight is the QB Leash? Or is Schaub Just Too Conservative?

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by Joshua

I can't believe I'm actually about to say this, but of all the guys who we could realistically go after this offseason (and I'm using realistically pretty liberally as the Texans clearly are going with Schaub and this is all just messageboard fodder), the guy I would be most curious about is Vick. Get him and Schaub back together and let them compete. Vick had absolutely no chance last year with the horrid O-line the Eagles threw out there and pretty much the whole team started mailing it in around mid-October. Plus, after watching RGIII in Washington, the thought of Vick running the bootlegs for us sounds pretty good. If nothing more than a change of pace from watching Schaub lumber around.

Vick is intriguing: he can throw the ball vertically and certainly has the mobility to put some real teeth in those bootlegs compared to Schaub's boots which are just kinda amusing because they represent such an empty threat.
But in spite of Schaub's interception, I don't think he played that badly Sunday and could have beat the Pats with last years team. Without Brisiel, Winston, and Dresseen in the lineup the Texans field a much less formidable rushing attack.