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Originally Posted by chuck
Who cares? Carolina was 7-9 in their first freaking season. Then they went to the conference championship game in their second. Jacksonville was 9-7 in their second year and went to the playoffs four times in their first five seasons. The Texans are a fking joke from the owner on down.
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I know I’m jumping in here late. Comparing the expansion teams of 1995 and 1999 to the Texans is almost comparing apples to oranges. In the ‘95 expansion draft, Carolina picked 35 players, and Jacksonville selected 31. In the ’99 expansion draft, the Browns picked up 37 players. in the 2002 expansion draft, the Texans had a choice of taking up to 30 unprotected players or a specified amount of salary cap. There was also some sort of an agreement with the Jags and Jets that they would not protect certain players if the Texans would select a specific player from their roster. From the Jags, the Texans infamously selected Tony Boselli so they could also get Seth Payne and Gary Walker, helping the defense that first year. Likewise, from the Jets, we got Aaron Glenn and Marcus Coleman after we took Ryan Young. 2 starting CBs and 2 starting D linemen to go with 2 O linemen that were worthless to the Texans. The total? 19 players, 2 of whom never played. The Texans had a decent defense in those first years, but with no Boselli or Young, their O-line was a joke. It’s no wonder Carr got sacked so much. The Texans did not pick up the depth in the expansion draft that the other teams did in their draft.
In the ’95 amateur draft, Carolina began with the following picks: 1-1, 1-32, 2-2 (they were stripped of the 2-31 and 6-36 picks because of the way they hired Dom Capers from Pittsburgh), 3-1, 3-34, 4-2, 4-34, 5-1, 5-37, 6-2, 7-1, and 7-41. Jacksonville began with 1-2, 1-31, 2-1, 2-32, 3-2, 3-33, 4-1, 4-36, 5-2, 5-36, 6-1, 6-37, 7-2, and 7-40. In the ’99 draft, the league cut back on the number of picks to Cleveland. They had 1-1, 2-1, 2-14, 3-1, 3-15, 4-1, 4-15, 5-1, 5-15, 6-1, 6-15, 7-1, 7-15, and 7-47. So, Carolina and Jacksonville each started with 14 picks, 2 per round. In 1995. Cleveland also had 14 picks, one in the 1st, 3 in the 7th, and 2 in the others. Houston was set up like Cleveland, except they picked 18th for the second picks in each round, while Cleveland had picked 14th in the 2nd round and 15th after that.
To sum this up, Carolina had 47 drafted players in their 1st camp from their draft. Jacksonville had 45. Cleveland had 51 players, since they selected so many in the expansion draft. Houston’s drafted players? In reality 17 + 14 in the draft makes 31. Houston began with a lot smaller core of talent than the other teams did. So, there were a great number of street free agents in those first few years. So, you really can't compare the expansion Texans to the others. It just won’t fly. Sorry for being long-winded.