GregR_2
Footballguy
Interesting discussion on Sports Radio 610 in Houston this morning about the Texans I thought I would pass on. Note that I'm doing this in the vein of Joe's "You'll know what I know" stance, so use your own judgement as to what might be motivational coach speak, what is true assessment of players, etc.
The local announcers were discussing the Texans, but much of it was discussing things that Kubiak had said as opposed to them just giving their own opinions. One area they discussed was that Kubiak has apparently been extremely critical of Carr lately. The comments were along the lines of "he didn't just look poor, he looked really poor" and "a guy who has been in the league for 4 years shouldn't be making these kind of mistakes". I didn't hear the Kubiak quotes myself so don't know how word-for-word those are, but Kubiak was supposed to be the source of the comments. The announcers were discussing how they had thought Kubiak would be a more soft-spoken coach, but he's really been laying it on a few of the players of late.
They also said that Kubiak has been hard on Kevin Walter's performance. One thing of particular interest to me was that they said the WR who has singled himself out so far with a great camp is Derrick Lewis. (I thought they were basing that off of what they've heard from the Texans staff, but it wasn't clear, it could be the announcer's opinion). I mention that is of interest to me because in the scrimmage drills I saw at training camp Lewis stood out to me as the most impressive WR other than AJ (Moulds didn't practice that day). He's apparently a former arena league player with very good speed. Not saying I'd go out and draft him just now, but he's a guy I'd keep an eye on in deep leagues and see if he can climb the depth chart.
The local announcers were discussing the Texans, but much of it was discussing things that Kubiak had said as opposed to them just giving their own opinions. One area they discussed was that Kubiak has apparently been extremely critical of Carr lately. The comments were along the lines of "he didn't just look poor, he looked really poor" and "a guy who has been in the league for 4 years shouldn't be making these kind of mistakes". I didn't hear the Kubiak quotes myself so don't know how word-for-word those are, but Kubiak was supposed to be the source of the comments. The announcers were discussing how they had thought Kubiak would be a more soft-spoken coach, but he's really been laying it on a few of the players of late.
They also said that Kubiak has been hard on Kevin Walter's performance. One thing of particular interest to me was that they said the WR who has singled himself out so far with a great camp is Derrick Lewis. (I thought they were basing that off of what they've heard from the Texans staff, but it wasn't clear, it could be the announcer's opinion). I mention that is of interest to me because in the scrimmage drills I saw at training camp Lewis stood out to me as the most impressive WR other than AJ (Moulds didn't practice that day). He's apparently a former arena league player with very good speed. Not saying I'd go out and draft him just now, but he's a guy I'd keep an eye on in deep leagues and see if he can climb the depth chart.
on both counts!!
thanks, Vinny, for the updates. Keep them coming.
