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Word out of Denver is that Jake Plummer and Tatum Bell are going over with the Broncos first round pick for the Texans first round pick.
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Can the Texans for a second consecutive year bypass a popular skill-position player (Quinn in this case, Reggie Bush or Vince Young last year) to select a defensive lineman? Yeah, I think they can. Especially if Jake Plummer is headed to Houston like we think.
Word out of Denver is that Jake Plummer and Tatum Bell are going over with the Broncos first round pick for the Texans first round pick.
Cutler is the future in Denver. The move for Plummer makes sense as Kubiak was his O coordinator in Denver.
Plummer is an older version of Rex Grossman: someone who is going to cough up the game if you put it squarely in their hands.
Alan Branch is gonna be a 3-4 NT beast, hope my Boys can get him, very un-likely though..
Yah but at least Plummer can get you to go the game, as opposed to Carr ... lol
Jake has been a winner with Kubiak running his offense. I don't doubt that he'd be able to get the Texans going in the right direction. I just hope the Broncos are able to get something worth a damn out of the deal.
God Plummer sucks.
Only fitting that the Texans compound their mistakes.
Jake can only take your franchise so far, like the first round. While that would be an improvement for the Texans, they need to start planning long-term, and he ain't it.
Dammit, I hate Jake Plummer.
What would be long term about Jake? He's in his 30's and probably only has a few years left in him. Why not get a stopgap QB right now, and build other areas of your team. The Texans have a lot more problems than just QB.
TheTruth makes a valid point. Signing Plummer this year and possibly drafting one next season that can learn from his mistake prone ass might be able to help them. They can focus on O and D line this draft. Hopefully they can find a late round RB that can help them immediately. This is a very important draft for the Houston FO.
If that happens then that means Mike Bell will be the main RB.
Talked about 2 weeks ago in this forum
Carr to be traded?
I have heard much about Tatum leaving Denver in OSU forums. Not only is he not happy with the perceived lack of faith in him by shananiganhan, but DWil was his best friend and teammate and supposedly he just doesn't want to be in Denver after his passing.
I would LOVE to see Tatum in a Texans uni. He is a native Texan as well.
Tatum Bell is a soft runner that fumbles a lot and gets hurt just as often. He has the breakaway speed but it all depends on him not being touched by a defensive player. I don't like the move for the Texans. I do like it for Denver though.
Oh and Carr > Plummer. I promise.
Carr might not be done yet.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/column...ohn&id=2775871
INDIANAPOLIS -- David Carr hasn't avoided many sacks during his five NFL seasons, but so far he's avoided being sacked by the Houston Texans.
Although the Texans haven't given up on the idea of trading Carr, general manager Rick Smith and coach Gary Kubiak gave Carr an endorsement as the Texans' starting quarterback for 2007. But those endorsements were about as shaky as Carr's pass protection.
"David Carr is our quarterback, and frankly, I'm interested in David playing better and performing more consistent and improving our offense," Smith said. "There has been so much rumor and innuendo right after the season. There were some clubs who were curious if, in fact, he was available. So I did take a couple of calls."
Thomas B. Shea-US PRESSWIRE
David Carr threw just 11 TD passes last season.Since that time, though, the calls have quieted down. Smith said Carr could be had if the right trade came up, but the market for Carr hasn't developed.
It has been speculated that the Texans might be willing to take a third-round choice for Carr, a price that might be considered a bargain for a 27-year-old quarterback taken at the top of the draft just five years ago. But listening to Smith speak Thursday at the scouting combine, a third-rounder might not be enough.
"I think you improve your team a couple of different ways," Smith said. "You get players on your team to play better and perform better and coach them hard. Or you go out and acquire other players. If we can acquire something in a trade for David that would make sense for us to improve our football team, we will entertain that."
A third-round pick for a team that is coming off a 6-10 season and has a 24-56 record over its five-year history won't lead to any rapid turnarounds. The Texans are tired of losing and so is Carr. But Carr is content to stay in Houston if the Texans want him. He has three years remaining on his contract. Smith has talked to Carr's agent, Michael Sullivan, and Smith said Carr and Sullivan understand the situation in Houston.
The Texans want to win now and are looking to make moves that will make them more compe ive in the AFC South. Moving Carr isn't going to net a boatload of draft choices or players, and the Texans clearly need players. If no deal can be made, the team will be content to stay with Carr as its starting quarterback.
"That's our approach," Kubiak said. "We all have to get better. David has to get better. He's part of that. We all have to get a lot better, including this coach right here. And I have to continue working with David. He's the key to our franchise getting better."
One option that seems to be stalled at the moment is a trade for Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer. Plummer, who was close to Kubiak in Denver, has been replaced by Jay Cutler as Denver's starting quarterback. Though Kubiak and Broncos coach Mike Shanahan are close, a Plummer trade doesn't appear to be close to happening.
Smith, in fact, wouldn't talk about Plummer on Thursday because he is property of the Broncos.
"It hasn't quieted down with the media," Smith said of the Carr trade rumors. "I only talked to a couple clubs about him. I don't know if there is going to be any interest. The interest is generated more by the media than anything. David is our starting quarterback. We're excited about him playing in his offense."
Coach Pop, "We won't be making any trades."
Les Miles, "I'm not interested in the LSU job."
Nick Saban, "I'm not interested in the Alabama job."
Vince Young, "I plan on returning to UT."
And so on.
Damn you CaptMike. I don't want them to get rid of Carr because that means Plummer will be in and he is . Absolute .
What the are you a captain of anyway?
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