The cuts, final roster, p-squad - 2014

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by kravix

Nope, the waiver wire position is static and lasts until or through the 4th week of the regular season.

Also players with 4 seasons under their belt are not subject to the waiver and become FA available to anyone.

I'm glad to be wrong on this one. One of the radio guys, a former Texans TE who's name escapes me, stated what I posted. So it maybe an old version of the rule.

[Nconroe]

Texans are down to 75 after waving three today.
OLB Paul Hazel,
OL Conor Boffeli and
WR Anthony McClung.

Now 22 more need to be waived/cut/moved by 4PM Saturday.

Then practice squad of 10 rather than 8 this year.

Several good players but no big surprises in this first round of cuts, but this next round will llikely have several tough choice surprises.

[Arky]

Hearing rumors/tweets/radio talk that Labhart, Boswell, Starling and Potter have been cut. Too bad on Labhart. Maybe they hope to get him on the PS.... let the young guy develop......

[Warren]

Cuts so far:

FB Toben Opurum
WR Travis Labhart
TE Zach Potter
OT Mike Farrell
OLB Quentin Groves
S Jawanza Starling
K Chris Boswell

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/08/...53-man-roster/

I'm also hoping Labhart is on the practice squad. I thought Groves played fairly well but he is 30 so I can understand them going with a younger guy with more upside.

[Arky]

Add Brandon Harris

Gotta be some surprises tomorrow. Gotta be.

[chuck]

I am absolutely thrilled that Brandon Harris got his pink slip. First, of course, because he's terrible. Second, I think this shows that BOB is not beholden to Rick Smith's pride if in fact Rick Smith had anything much to do with the drafts during the Kubiak years. The 2011 draft yielded JJ of course but otherwise was a master class in ineptitude, particularly because they were trying hard to rectify their secondary situation and ended up with a bunch of stiffs, one a second-round stiff. I'm not at all sure that Brooks Reed isn't a stiff, either, but at the end of the day they may find themselves with two second round fails and that simply cannot happen to a good team.

Anyway, Harris is gone and we don't have to watch him suck anymore.

Other teams with pole position on the waiver wire have taken ten players or more which is an incredible number of new guys to inject into a system the week before the season begins. But it could be a very smart thing to do if there's value out there, and there surely will be. I just hope the brain trust sees and identifies it. Really, how they play the waiver wire should tell us an awful lot about whether the tandem of BOB and Rick Smith will be worth a damn going forward.

I'm not demanding that they go out and grab a dozen players you understand, although if there are a dozen guys released better than anyone on our roster (a very real possibility) then I'm ok with the inevitable growing pains. But I don't see how they could fail to upgrade the secondary, ILBs, OT depth and maybe even the kicker.

[Warren]

DL Ricardo Mathews and LB Chris McAllister have also been cut.

Originally Posted by chuck

I am absolutely thrilled that Brandon Harris got his pink slip. First, of course, because he's terrible. Second, I think this shows that BOB is not beholden to Rick Smith's pride if in fact Rick Smith had anything much to do with the drafts during the Kubiak years. The 2011 draft yielded JJ of course but otherwise was a master class in ineptitude, particularly because they were trying hard to rectify their secondary situation and ended up with a bunch of stiffs, one a second-round stiff. I'm not at all sure that Brooks Reed isn't a stiff, either, but at the end of the day they may find themselves with two second round fails and that simply cannot happen to a good team.

I think them cutting Brennan Williams, Trevardo Williams, and Alan Bonner early on shows the same thing -- the fact that Smith drafted them just last year didn't buy them any extra time to show the new staff something. That 2013 class wasn't exactly a franchise-builder either.