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Originally Posted by barrett
They could have not paid schaub or foster. They could have never signed Joseph or Manning. They knew Mario was coming due and prioritized elsewhere, counting on Wade's system and Smith's draft picks to create outside pass rush. But any NFL team can keep any individual player if they want to badly enough. We obviously didn't, for better or worse.
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OK for the sake of argument I'll agree that the Texans could have crafted thru a series of hypothetical moves a scenario where they had a large enough cap credit that would have permitted them to resign Mario for the kind of money the market would ultimately paid him when he hit FA, however I think Smith would have made a much bigger mistake committing that much to retain Mario.
Now I can certainly fault Smith (but not as much as Kubiak) for the timing of Scaubs contract extention, and the same goes to a lesser degree for the second contract they gave Cushing, but I commend Smith for the discipline he demonstrated in managing the situation with Mario. And while I have mixed feelings about the Texans decision to release Barwin, he's having another just so-so season @ Philly in sack stats, though he is proving to be a valuable member to their defense in other ways.
12-03-2013, 07:29 AM
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