Casey vs. Dreesen

[papabear]

Originally Posted by Big Texas

Me personally, if he can't beat out Dreesen for the starting job it was an overpriced pick.

For the Texans sake, I hope he is every bit as good as they have been hyping him up to be.

I don't know about that...I think Dreesen has been severely underappreciated by the Texans fans. I don't think he will ever go to any pro-bowls, but he's got good hands, seems to run good routes, and is WAY ahead of Casey in the blocking game right now.

Casey will likely make some big plays, but I would guess that Dreesen still sees the majority of the action...at least for the first few weeks.

Originally Posted by Barrett

The Texans never hyped him to be anything. He was a 5th round pick. The wasted pick was Hill.

I think it's way to early to say that Hill was a wasted pick.

I think Hill was brought in to fill the blocking TE role that Bruener had. Casey was just a case of a guy who the Texans had a decent grade on who lasted much longer than they were expecting. They obviously felt like Hill filled a bigger hole for them or they wouldn't have passed on Casey to take him. I would guess that Casey was the highest graded player on the board by far. I think the reason Casey has been active more is that he has been better on special teams...and Kubiak's realized that we were going to be a pass first team so the special team factor combined with the fact that it doesn't llok like we are going to be pounding the ball out of 3 TE sets often means Casey has seen more of the field.