Exe Gesis
Kylo was here
- Sep 6, 2005
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I must've given them the kiss of death after my comment yesterday
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And just like that ... it was over.
The chants must have been hard for the fifth-round rookie quarterback to ignore. The Reliant Stadium crowd was chanting “T.J., T.J.” early in his first career start.
Yates had come a long way since February, when he was only an afterthought at the NFL Scouting Combine. He was a “combine arm.”
“They invite you, but it’s pretty much the last three guys” Yates told Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports after Sunday’s win. “You go on the first day and stay all the way to the last day to throw to the defensive guys and stuff. It was kind of annoying because you’re there for eight days straight.
“I was ready to get out of there, especially on the last day. I probably threw like 150 deep balls to [defensive backs] during their drills. Just a hired arm.”
Fast forward to Sunday. Yates completed less than half his passes, but he averaged 7.5 yards-per-attempt, threw for a touchdown, and didn’t have any turnovers.
The Texans will probably be better off with Yates than Matt Leinart in the long run. Yates was willing to go down the field. Gary Kubiak showed confidence in his rookie during a team meeting Saturday.
“Hey, if you guys think we’re gonna dumb things down for T.J. and only give him a certain amount [of our offensive package], you guys are wrong,” Kubiak told his team, according to tackle Eric Winston.
Kubiak was unaware of Yates’ combine duties.
“He was a slappy? Ha, kind of like I was,” Kubiak said.
From slappy to starter on a 9-3 team. Yates is a fascinating story, and we get the sense he will be anything but an afterthought this January.
Time flies in the NFL: The Houston Texans’ very first game, a Sunday night win over the Cowboys, feels like a fresh memory to me. And yet the Texans sent out a reminder today that they’re celebrating their 10th anniversary this year.
The Texans’ announcement noted that the players will wear a patch on their jerseys with a 10th anniversary logo, and they’ll commemorate memorable events from their first year in the NFL, starting with a celebration today of the Texans’ expansion draft, which took place on February 18, 2002.
In the expansion draft, the Texans selected 19 players from 14 other NFL teams, and today Aaron Glenn, a Pro Bowl cornerback who joined the Texans via the expansion draft, will be at Reliant Stadium to kick off the Texans’ 10th anniversary season. (There probably won’t be much mention of the fact that aside from Glenn, the Texans had more misses than hits in the expansion draft: The top two choices in that draft were tackles Tony Boselli and Ryan Young, who played zero and nine games, respectively, in a Texans uniform.)
Whatever else they do to celebrate in 2012, the Texans have already started the year off by doing what the Texans’ loyal fans waited 10 years for them to do: Reach the playoffs.
http://www.windsorstar.com/sports/Atkinson+keeps+dream+alive/8331023/story.html"Houston (Texans) and a couple of other teams are interested when my knee is better," Atkinson said. "I understand it's a business and they're not going to sign and pay me for something I can't do.
"Houston seems like the place I might be going. They keep calling to see how I'm doing and following my progression."
"You were so right GG early in the season saying Schaub was pathetic and the Texans needed to move on from him. You indeed are a man ahead of your time."
Was watching the Colts/Houston game a couple of weeks back and one of the commentators compared Keenum's look and QB style to Romo, i hope we stick with Keenum and see what he can do next year. Looks to have the enthusiasm and confidence to be given a shot at it.