2024 Texans pick watch thread

[Cheesebeef]

I agree with all of this. If we drafted Anderson last year we would have ended up with two blue chip players (Anderson and whomever we draft this year, assuming we don’t trade down). I think monti’s hope was that we would end up with two in this draft plus other assets, but the Texans didn’t cooperate. So instead we likely end up with one blue chip player (again if we don’t trade down) and a bunch of other assets. I think the error was in passing on blue chippers when your team has almost none of those and they are difficult to come by.

Especially blue chippers at the biggest impact positions in the league.

 

[Yuma]

Especially blue chippers at the biggest impact positions in the league.

We could still get a really good OL with that pick, but yeah, it looked better at the beginning of the season when it looked like we had number one and two picks in the draft coming back! That would have been the biggest jackpot in NFL history!

 

[Gandhi]

If you can’t see how this comment (if accurate) cuts against monti, I don’t know what to tell you.

1-0 to you, good sir.

 

[kerouac9]

Will Anderson can still be the better choice if he's merely a five-time Pro Bowl player and not a perennial defensive player of the year candidate. A lot of folks try to knock down Will Anderson because he's "just" a blue-chip two-way player because he didn't get 13 sacks -- just 7 sacks, 10 TFLs, 22 QB hits, and 32 pressures.

 

[Chopper0080]

Will Anderson can still be the better choice if he's merely a five-time Pro Bowl player and not a perennial defensive player of the year candidate. A lot of folks try to knock down Will Anderson because he's "just" a blue-chip two-way player because he didn't get 13 sacks -- just 7 sacks, 10 TFLs, 22 QB hits, and 32 pressures.

Agreed. Not a knock on Paris Johnson.

 

[Chopper0080]

What I will say is there can be an argument made that the Cardinals should try to make a similar move this year to what the TExans did. Grab two top players at important positions that are also needs.

 

[slanidrac16]

Cards got a potential cornerstone offensive tackle and another first round pick. How anyone can criticize that is way beyond me.

Shortly after picking Paris Johnson it was widely reported that they would have taken him at #3, meaning that Ossenfort basically got the team a free first rounder this year.

This! MO went into last years draft looking to protect his biggest asset.
Through all the yackity yak this year about questioning Kyler, would we move off of him , trading him blah blah, it appears MO was pretty sure about Kyler.

 

[slanidrac16]

It’s really amazing just how crystal clear hindsight is.

 

[Chopper0080]

It’s really amazing just how crystal clear hindsight is.

So what was it during the draft when the same people didn't want to trade back and pass on Wil Anderson?

 

[oaken1]

So what was it during the draft when the same people didn't want to trade back and pass on Wil Anderson?

Right?? As I remember it most of us wanted Anderson... But we accepted the trade with the philosophy of protecting the QB.

Seems this year we want Harrison. But accept we may pick an LT to replace Hump

 

[slanidrac16]

So what was it during the draft when the same people didn't want to trade back and pass on Wil Anderson?

There isn’t, never has been nor will there ever be a draft where you can look back and think maybe we should/could have went in another direction.
Thus 20/20 hindsight.

 

[Cheesebeef]

It’s really amazing just how crystal clear hindsight is.

This is ridiculous to say to people who wanted to draft Anderson AT THE TIME of the draft.

 

[slanidrac16]

This is ridiculous to say to people who wanted to draft Anderson AT THE TIME of the draft.

Okay. They were right. Now what.

 

[Alan]

I’d think most teams would have made that same exact trade knowing the circumstances at the time. But I guess it’s fun to fight about it now.

 

[Alan]

Meanwhile, the best the Texans pick could be is a coin flip for #25?

A coin flip with a Wisconsin team… What could go wrong?

 

[iLLmatiC]

Meanwhile, the best the Texans pick could be is a coin flip for #25?

A coin flip with a Wisconsin team… What could go

An obscure suns reference. God, why must Arizona sports be so cursed?

 

[gimpy]

DeMeco Ryans thinks he is worth having on the roster and playing him behind Anderson Jr in a playoff game. Good enough to question letting him go with no snaps, no explanation. If he was 32, I wouldn't even mention him.

Sounds like another Murphy, Allen debate.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

So what was it during the draft when the same people didn't want to trade back and pass on Wil Anderson?

Right? I love the “hindsight” accusational takes. I think they’re the worst takes on the board.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Okay. They were right. Now what.

Now what? Well for starters it should factor into how you view your gm if a bunch of yahoos on a sports board were right in their criticism of your actions at the point in time of the action.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

I’d think most teams would have made that same exact trade knowing the circumstances at the time. But I guess it’s fun to fight about it now.

Possibly. But we will never know that. We do kinda know what posters would’ve done because that’s actually documented here.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Meanwhile, the best the Texans pick could be is a coin flip for #25?

A coin flip with a Wisconsin team… What could go wrong?

Yeesh

 

[Evil Ash]

The earliest the Houston pick can be now is 26, potentially falling to 27 with a win by tampa

There is no coin flip with gb as Houston had a better record (texans won 10, gb won 9)

 

[Cheesebeef]

The earliest the Houston pick can be now is 26, potentially falling to 27 with a win by tampa

There is no coin flip with gb as Houston had a better record (texans won 10, gb won 9)

Jesus.

 

[Evil Ash]

Jesus.

The really sad part is if the titans beat them when Stroud and a bunch of others were out, we'd pick 15. That incompetence cost us up to 12 spots

Stupid titans

 

[oaken1]

The really sad part is if the titans beat them when Stroud and a bunch of others were out, we'd pick 15. That incompetence cost us up to 12 spots

Stupid titans

That's probably why they fired the coach