Duane Brown update

[chuck]

Originally Posted by barrett

And again, I say you'd complain just as loudly with the same complaints if we traded a 2nd round pick for a mostly used up guy on the back end of his career.

How loudly do you suppose I'd complain if the Texans, oh, I don't know, gave away a second round pick to get rid of a 70 million dollar albatross who put up historically terrible numbers and could not even make the team in Cleveland?

[chuck]

This basically says what I've been trying to say but with more stats and fewer gratuitous insults:

https://www.battleredblog.com/2017/1...de-an-analysis

[barrett]

Originally Posted by chuck

This basically says what I've been trying to say but with more stats and fewer gratuitous insults:

https://www.battleredblog.com/2017/1...de-an-analysis

Lots of stats to show Brown is better than not-Brown.

Anyone who was debating that is an idiot.

The better question to me is what helps you more in an effort to win a championship. 25 or less games of Duane Brown, or a 5th and 2nd round pick? Because we aren't winning any titles this year even with 5 Browns. Next year is a real possibility as good as Watson is (assuming Mercilous comes back). But next year will also have JJ Watt's shell taking up 1/5 of our cap. Of course the way we run things, we'll keep paying JJ until 2025 because the locals love him. We will at least pretend he comes back next year and will keep paying him until at least 2020.

[Arky]

Some have been making the case that keeping Brown around was not worth the headache.... YMMV

The schedule really lightens up a bit.

Sun, Nov 5 vs Indianapolis 1:00 PM CBS
Sun, Nov 12 @ Los Angeles 4:05 PM CBS
Sun, Nov 19 vs Arizona 1:00 PM FOX
Mon, Nov 27 @ Baltimore 8:30 PM ESPN/WatchESPN
Sun, Dec 3 @ Tennessee 1:00 PM CBS
Sun, Dec 10 vs San Francisco 1:00 PM FOX

Can't see the Texans being large dogs in any of these - LAR and Baltimore on the road being the likely candidates for the small underdog role....

[Warren]

CB Jeremy Lane failed his physical. Texans trade Brown and a 5th in 2018 and a third round pick from seattle in 2018 and a second in 2019.

https://twitter.com/mcclain_on_nfl/s...96643167940608

[Arky]

Originally Posted by Warren

https://twitter.com/mcclain_on_nfl/s...96643167940608

Wow.

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[barrett]

Originally Posted by Warren

https://twitter.com/mcclain_on_nfl/s...96643167940608

That's huge. I wouldn't have minded a warm body for our secondary, but it had no real value. A 3rd round pick does. And I love that he failed his physical because he got hurt against us 2 days ago.

[nunusguy]

So we send Brown & a 2018 5th round pick to the Seahawks but get a 2018 third round pick instead of a 5th rounder in lieu of Lanes addition to our roster.
Now we are expecting to have 3 third-rounders in 2018, and in addition we will be freeing up another substantial chunk of cap space by jettisoning Brown off to the Seahawks.
If all the Hoodie can get for Garoppolo is a second rounder then I'm not feeling bad at all about this.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by chuck

How loudly do you suppose I'd complain if the Texans, oh, I don't know, gave away a second round pick to get rid of a 70 million dollar albatross who put up historically terrible numbers and could not even make the team in Cleveland?

I don't think anyone alive (and certainly anyone on this board) has complained louder or longer about the Texans handling of the QB position. It was embarrassing when we signed Osweiller, and it was embarrassing we had to pay to get rid of him 12 months later.

That doesn't impact whether a 2nd and 5th is a good return for Duane Brown.