OL Play

[barrett]

Originally Posted by chuck

Nick Martin is the only Texans OL who would play meaningful snaps on a team with a good OL. From the 2002 team, DeMingo Graham was the one and only stiff on the OL. Weary was OK when healthy. The other three guys were good enough to have played or did play on good OLs.

You seem awfully interested in highlighting how long Deshaun holds the ball. What is your recollection regarding that element of quarterback play in 2002?

Your contention that the team's outright refusal to put together anything resembling a competent offensive line is not an absolute systemic failure because Deshaun is a scrambler is just bizarre.

I said in my post not having more OL talent is a front office failure. It's literally the post you replied to when you said I won't say it's a failure. We even used the same word to describe it.

My only issue in this entire thing is using sacks as the only means of judging an OL. When you have a mobile QB sacks become a bad measure of OL play. The Cowboys have had a great OL and still been bottom 5 in sacks. Seattle and GB are average and are bottom 5 in sacks. Houston is bad on the OL and because of it they are worse then bottom 5, they are dead last by a margin. But they are not awful. They are a bottom 10 OL in the league. That might be a strange nit to pick, but the stats support it either way.

But even if they were the 10th best line by talent (and they're a million miles from that), it'd still be a front office failure because they are not assembling a paper team. They have the best QB talent in football and if his unique style of play means we need the best OL in football to keep him alive, then that should be priority 1.