3 Round Mock draft

[Roy P]

Originally Posted by dalemurphy

It seems like you are working off a lot of assumptions... For instance, the assumption that Unger can't beat out CMyers in the near future. Or, the assumption that our three interior olmen will all not miss time this year. Or, Chester Pitts will be re-signed before next season.

Even assuming all of that, I just don't think you can draft for immediate impact. Just take good players, particularly at positions where your depth is bad and then let competition, injuries, etc... work itself out.

Since nobody here works for the Texans, we have to work with assumptions. You don't have to agree with the premise and if you don't, you'll obviously come up with different conclusions.

It appears that you are assuming that Unger will beat out Myers and our interior OL will miss time. That's your perogative.

[Blitzwood]

Roy,

Don't you think we should spread our first 5 picks a little more than using 3 on DB's, especially since we still haven't seen what Barber and Molden are capable of doing?

I like the players, but don't know if they'll be riding the bench like the previous players mentioned were last year. Kubiak has some strange commitments to play players that is mindbogglingly, IMO.

[Roy P]

Originally Posted by Blitzwood

Roy,

Don't you think we should spread our first 5 picks a little more than using 3 on DB's, especially since we still haven't seen what Barber and Molden are capable of doing?

I've seen enough of Barber to know that he can be upgraded. If I had a chance to draft Troy Polamalu, I'm not going to pass on him because I have Barber and Harrison on my roster.

As long as I'm uncertain about Dunta Robinson, I don't mind adding a CB via the draft.

Now, my point of emphasis is to take the BPA during the draft. If they happen to be DBs, then so be it.

[Blitzwood]

Originally Posted by Roy P

I've seen enough of Barber to know that he can be upgraded. If I had a chance to draft Troy Polamalu, I'm not going to pass on him because I have Barber and Harrison on my roster.

We'd probably never know we had a T.Polamalu because he'd be rinding the bench while some overpaid journeyman got the minutes.

That's the point.

[Roy P]

Well, If I were the GM and the coach kept T. P. on the bench while a lesser talent got all the playing time, I might start looking for a new coach.

I've talked about this before, but I am not sure how the relationship between Smith is vs. how it should be. I understand the two needing to work together to develop an identity and a philosophy. However, I buy into the Head Coach working for the GM model. Maybe it's my prior military service, but that's just the way I see it. My observations of Smith is that he takes a lot of input from Kubiak. I would imagine if Kubiak fails to make progress this season, then both would have to be shown the door. Smith would not be able to say, I wanted Kubiak to play better player than player X but he just wouldn't listen, so I passed on drafting/signing player Y.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by Blitzwood

We'd probably never know we had a T.Polamalu because he'd be rinding the bench while some overpaid journeyman got the minutes.

That's the point.

And where do you think this is happening? You aren't attempting to describe the situation at safety I hope.

[Blitzwood]

All I'm saying is if we draft for example William Moore and Chip Vaughn in the 2nd and 3rd respectively, whose to say they're gonna get the nod over Wilson, Ferguson, Barber, Harrison, Molden, Bennett, Reeves, Williams, and Pittman. How many DB's do we really need to draft this year with so many guys already fighting for minutes.

[Nconroe]

I guess the thought is if you have 23rd ranked defense a few positions ought to be upgradeable from guys you had the year before, although tough for a rookie to beat out a good veteran for playing time. And you need 82 guys at start of camp, and about 30 don't make it. New coaches and a year more experience will help as well.