The Super Bowl playoffs are starting and the Texans have a chance to end the Chiefs' 10-game winning streak. #BullsOnParade #KCstillsucks
Without Hoyer's mistakes and that 100-yard touchdown kickoff by the Chiefs, the Texans should be winning this game. #PutWeedenOn
Needs: QB RB TE- OL? Might need a replacement for Brown. Defense LB's Mercilus is locked up. Cushing is serviceable. I really can't think of any glaring defensive issues if this production keeps up next year. Huh. But um, yeah. Watt's not getting to the thought of a ring in Houston unless they address the Offense. At least we got some brief excitement out of it.
Rick Smith got somebody's nudes and using them as ransom so McNair ain't firing him... Needs to go find a way to promote him and get him out that GM role
What does a man like Hoyer say to his teammates immediately after throwing 4 picks and fumbling another turnover in a massive home playoff loss?!? "Um, I am sorry guys...it looks like I will never play in the NFL again. Y'all others, have nice careers however."---Hoyer Our forum tag line still reigns supreme!
Well it's not as worst as the kicker from Minnesota and some of the defensive players from Cincinnati.
If the Texans don't seriously inquire about a competent QB, every year is gonna be the same story. We can't get by with just 'game managers' like Hoyer and Fitzpatrick. You need a gamer, somebody that can sling it, because you don't really have a running game. With an elite D and Hopkins, an above average QB would make all the difference. You're wasting all of that talent otherwise.
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It's complicated. As with the Dynamo, there are serviceable players someone else can use if they are ok with moderate results and solid production, and there are players one should pursue if they have actual aspirations. I think the negative assessment of Hoyer is spot on because he was exposed by KC and some other teams. However, quietly he amassed 19TD and 7Int not unlike the agonizing Fitzpatrick the year before. It was a throughput problem as much as a talent deal: he can get OK numbers it just takes too many drives to do it. To me, like Bruin and Barnes last season. They can put up OK numbers it will just take 30 games of devoted offense and endless shots to do it, and you won't win that way. Osweiler my concern would be, is he really a hidden gem potential starter or just another signing of a backup elevated beyond his station (Schaub, Hoyer, etc.)? This is the first year of significant PT and he was benched for the playoffs behind a rubber armed Manning who actually struggled. Beyond that, we spent way too much money for his services. He is not a proven starter, he's a half season guy who got benched again. But we just paid serious starter money. And this team needs an actual starter. Too many years of wasting skill position talent. We already burned Andre's career, the clock is now ticking on the Nuk. And that is a concern also relevant to the Dynamo, we shouldn't be giving mediocre players 3 year runs, by the time they pull the plug on Lopez or Ashe or whatever the guys with the actual talent are retired or demand a trade and that quality team is dismantled. Gotta be more ruthless. It's not about making numbers, it's about correctly composing a jigsaw puzzle around the talent we have. I'm concerned on defense in particular we are frittering away some decent offensive talent's tenure.
I don't think it's so much as lack of ruthlessness as it is the issue of contracts in most cases. If a team makes a mistake in acquiring a player, they usually have to pay for the mistake, and are not free from the financial consequences.
This is the passive, "just desserts" theory of it. If the CBA says, only players with x tenure cannot be released, those are the rules of the game. If a player lacking CBA tenure is sub-par, it is not our obligation to carry the contract to term, if we have another choice. If a player on a short term loan is sub-par, it is not our obligation to bring them back another year for a second chance (Miranda, Lopez). If a player frustrates and runs out their contract, we can let them go (Bruin, Sarkodie, etc.). If a player underwhelms and can be traded (Ashe) in a way that helps the team, have at it. There is rarely a situation where a player is simultaneously bad performance and high expense such that they cannot be moved. We now know even Davis with his sizeable deal can be dealt. Ashe, who people thought could not go, could in fact go to the rest team under the right stresses. Driver, who was headed out the door. Etc. etc. This is in fact about ruthlessness. If none of these Spaniards are that impressive, are all playing for six figures, and have no CBA guarantees, why are they treated any different than Koke? They occupy cap, they were expected to contribute, I think we can do better. Hit the market. The Texans just cut Arian Foster and will soon probably cut Hoyer. You're making the Keep Foster argument. I think when we were very good there was an argument to be made, among elite teams, that loyalty was a valuable distinction. But we were also known for willingly letting players like Jaqua go, and in the famous first season cut Cerritos midyear to bring in Dalglish. Ale made way for Ngwenya and then Kamara. We have actually been quite ruthless before when it helped the side fill a need in a competitive year. I think the Forever Orange bit suits the fanboys at the expense of actual history, which is we have sometimes ditched long term franchise players if we thought there was a better Plan B. At least in the title years......since then, yeah, we have ridden Ching into the ground, for all the good that did us.....years of underpowered offense on otherwise competitive teams coming up a goal or two short in the playoffs. To me, the defense to a man has not done enough to earn their keep. There are no reasons other than blind faith and naive loyalty to stay the course. This is a mediocre performance team on what everyone wants to say is a tight budget, we can't allow people to stage a sit-in and not earn their keep. Everyone has to be rowing in the same direction for budget teams to compete. If you are forever content letting certain disappointments play out the string, we are not going to be title competitive.
At least under the old CBA, only at x point in the MLS season -- roster freeze -- were we obligated for the season salary and effectively stuck. Until then, I understood it to be, you allocate what you actually paid. I also understood it as, if you had less than 3 years' tenure, you could be cut until a point in the season. Only tenured players had effective immunity. So at least under the old CBA, this is not Hoyer, I don't owe them a full contract "charge" against my cap even if I am allowed to release them. And this also neglects the more congenial approaches to shedding players, trades, mutually agreed terminations, let the deal or loan run out and change the locks, etc. Your Hoyer argument is really more complicated, anyway. NFL teams are responsible for guaranteed/earned money and pro-rated bonuses. If a player has earned all of their guaranteed money, you walk when they are released. If a player actually has a guaranteed contract or a pro-rated chunk of bonus, this is dead money on the cap. You are also allowed one deferral per season of a dead money cap hit. So it's in some ways like MLS. If Hoyer is guaranteed like Bruin, yes, it's cap money as a normal rule, though there is the deferral. But if not, here today, gone tomorrow. And half my point is the Spaniards have not been here a tenured term under the old CBA. Maybe the rules changed. Maybe they were guaranteed. But we may not be required to carry them, and if you think back to Koke or Akinbiyi, one virtue of foreign untenured players as opposed to CBA MLS vets has been expendability. To back off from that ruthlessness now would be self defeating. Get players in here who can play.
"(a) Guaranteed: A guaranteed SPA is most advantageous for the player. It cannot be terminated by the league if the player is hurt or based on the player’s performance. It can only be terminated by the league under extraordinary circumstances like gambling on games or testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. Approximately 10% of players in the league have guaranteed contracts. (b) Semi-guaranteed: The vast majority of senior roster players sign semi-guaranteed contracts. A semiguaranteed contract cannot be terminated while the player is unfit due to injury, and cannot be terminated between July 1 and Dec. 31 unless the player was unfit on July 1 due to injury and becomes fit before the end of the year. Between January 1 and July 1, a player with a semi-guaranteed contract can be terminated based on his performance. (c) Non-guaranteed: All Developmental players sign non-guaranteed contracts. These contracts can be terminated by the league at any time based on the player’s performance, or because of an injury." -CBA FAQ "Clubs may waive players based on performance at any time during the MLS season. A club may waive a Semi-Guaranteed Player at any time during the regular season until 48-hours prior to the Contract Guarantee Date. A club may waived a Guaranteed or Semi-Guaranteed Player after the Contract Guarantee Date only with League approval. Clubs may not waive a player between the Roster Freeze Date and MLS Cup. Semi-Guaranteed Players waived on or after the Contract Guarantee Date of any League year and Guaranteed Players waived anytime, and who clear waivers (i.e. not picked up by another club), will continue to have their Salary Budget Charge count against the Club Salary Budget. The club waiving the player will not receive a replacement player except through the Discovery Process." -MLS Roster Rules So as I understand it, the old tenure rule has been replaced by a rule differentiating waivers and cap hits between Guaranteed (stuck), Semi-guaranteed (stuck after July 1), and non-guaranteed (anytime). So if you have an underperforming semi-guaranteed why on earth just roll with it? Do the old Kinnear thing. You didn't cut it half a season, later. On to the next one.
FWIW Hoyer is only $4.5 m guaranteed for life of deal, some of which may be consumed already, and we have a one-time deferral available for him or Foster. Or maybe we sit on it a season.
The difference between Hoyer and BO, is Hoyer had a chance at a starting position at a couple of teams. BO was being groomed to be a starter, but wasn't ready when Denver brought in a instant hall of famer in Manning. The two aren't comparable. Hoyer had his chance and blew it. Hell he rode out in a blaze of glory throwing 5 int. and embarrassed the organization, while living up to his reputation of bombing in big games. BO on the other hand has waited out his time, learned from the QB's around him. Manning went out, he stepped in and held a offense together to get them through big games. He didn't do Brady numbers, but he won games.