Murfdogg21

Davis Mills would’ve been the QB1 in this draft so it says more about how crappy these QBs are. Salud to Detroit, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and Carolina!

IdiotSavant Frank Reynolds for GM!

Both corners will be gone before #13. If they have decided Stingley is better than Sauce (not saying I agree with that assessment), taking him at 3 might be the correct move. Nobody in the #5-8 range wants to trade up to #3. If Caserio is smart, he has mocked out 50 different scenarios of picks 4-12 based on what they do at 3. If they don’t trade up from 13, then the likely best players available will be DE Jermaine Johnson, DT Jordan Davis, the third WR (hopefully Williams or Olave and not London), S Kyle Hamilton, or the northern Iowa OT. Which of those guys would pair best with either OT Ickey or CB Stingley?

364 days ago, Vegas odds had Spencer Rattler as the favorite to go #1 overall tonight (and they thought it would be Houston).

The other 31 teams say “please take Willis at #2!” yeah the 5th year option on a first round pick adds value to the last couple picks #28-32 if teams picking at 33-40 want to jump up at the cost of something like a 3rd rounder. Since it seems like a buyers’ market on moving up, I am hoping the Texans can go from #13 to #6-8 without giving up a second rounder.

If she is trying to argue “there is a reason” to drink each other’s blood that scientific or physiological, someone should tell her what happens to leukocytes and erythrocytes in stomach acid.

This is normally right except this year there is a fall off in talent in the late teens. Your scenario (to get a 2023 first) would mean they traded back from #13 to the late 20’s. This is not good value in the 2022 draft. The second round picks should be good players with not drop off from late first rounders. If Houston could drop back four or five spots from either #3 or #13 and pick up that team’s second rounder, they should jump on that.

Keep in mind for next year (2023), we don’t own Brooklyn’s pick. It is a pick swap if theirs is better, but if Kyrie plays all year and Simmons contributes at all (LOL) I doubt we will be swapping. The Rockets do own Milwaukee’s pick, but you’d expect that to be very late first round and probably not valuable enough to package and move into the top couple picks.

Consensus is no more than 18 players with first round grades. It may cost teams in the 20s more to trade up than usual considering the drop off.

Or posed differently, you expect this nucleus of Green/Sengun/Christopher/KPJ plus either Chet or Jabari (hopefully) to suck shit next year even when they are trying, but magically become a contender the next season or before their rookie contracts are up?

What game changing franchise corner stone are you going to draft in 2023 somewhere between #5-15 after you want the first and second year players to fake tank and learn nothing about winning habits and culture? Green, Sengun, and Christopher will be halfway through their rookie contract and never get a whiff of 0.500 ball.

The buzz is that both corners (Sauce and Stingley) and 2 or 3 of the top 3 OTs will be gone before #13, maybe by #10. NYG or NYJ would take Sauce, and SEA or NYJ would take Stingley. NYG and probably CAR want an OT. Everyone thinks WFT will take a WR at #11. Houston will probably have their choice of the best OT or CB on their board at #3, but who knows who the BPA will be at #13. Theres also a lot of smoke that Houston likes Stingley (last played well as a freshman in 2019) over Sauce (no completions of >20 yards and no TDs allowed in his four year career) and would take Stingley at #3. I’m Sauce all day in this debate, so hopefully it’s a smokescreen and not Caserio being cute and thinking he’s smarter than everyone else. If at #3 they go OT or Trayvon Walker if he falls, there’s a good chance they could trade up to #8 and still get Stingley, or stay at #13 and get the second WR off the board. If they would take Stingley or Evan Neal at #3, they should try to trade back a couple spots because neither of those guys are number one at their position for most teams.

I was all about trading Wood and Gordon (still am about Wood), but I see what some mean about trying to instill work ethic and winning traits in the youngins which is something Gordon can do. Some fans (on this thread) have advocated tanking next year as well, but I don’t know if it’s great for the Rockets or Green/Sengun/Christopher/top5 2022 pick long term to be losing 5 games a week and never learning things like getting a lead, sitting on a lead, grinding people down, finishing out games. If you expect them to suck for half their rookie contract and then just flip a switch and win playoff series(es), that’s a tall order. My vote would be to get a new coach and start trying to win now, hoping to catch some luck with future Brooklyn picks and one Milwaukee pick down the road, and having the cap room after Wall/Wood/Gordon are gone to sign an all star level FA.

I assumed he had some kind of auto immune or neurological disease (MS or Parkinson’s possibly) and he feared the inflammatory spike after a Covid vax might cause more long term harm than good.

Mike Florio had a rant in favor of abolishing the NFL Draft due to federal labor laws and allowing free agency straight out of college/NIL “playing school”. In theory and in line with capitalism, it would work but practically it would bankrupt teams when players bust (which is around 25% of first rounders, 40% of second, and higher thereafter), and IMO it will start an NBA situations that favors hip cities like NY, LA, Miami, ATL and teams in Midwest cities would have to grossly overpay to get equivalent talent. The draft evens it out quite a bit.

Is there still time to fire Click and bring back Luhnow? The Sox brought back Cora, Yankees about to get wacked in this Manfred letter. It should be all good now.

I didn’t say I was sweating, just bitching that my professional manager seems to perform worse than the surly stonk gods. But rolling in that new Bronco would’ve been nice.

My accounts are proof the professionals know as much as the amateurs. We made a good chunk selling a house in Austin and buying in Houston in 2021. Inflation signs say don’t hold cash. Peak real estate prices say don’t buy real estate. Market seems fakely high but TINA right? Merrill Lynch boys had a great plan to only put in 10-15% of our money a month to protect against a sudden market downturn but catch some gains before the inevitable correction. Also lots of bullshit about hedging with some investments that perform opposite the market, and buying aggressive on the undervalued downturned shit. FML we are down 8.5% from our original cash deposit in spite of some of the money only being invested the last month or two. Anyone want to interest me Pampered Chef or speakers out of a van to invest in? I would’ve been better off buying some bonds and a new Bronco.

I bought houses in Travis county in 2011 and 2018, and both times I did an informal protest in 2012 and 2019 and checked the reason as incorrect market value and used my closing documents as evidence. I didn’t know to do this when I went in for the informal in 2012, but the TCAD agent told me they honor purchase price as the accurate value for 18 months. I have no idea if TCAD still has this policy after the exponential appreciation from 2020-present.

Agree, my point was more that if the Rockets think Ivey has the most star potential, or if they pick 3 and Chet and Smith are off the board, they shouldn’t avoid Ivey or another guard because of position and take a “good role player” PF or C.

This seems like a bad draft if you want to trade down from top 5. There isn’t much consensus beyond Hutchison being in the top 2, Walker being a boom or blah talent that could go anywhere between #1 and #10, Sauce Gardner being the #1 CB and a top 5 pick, and Kyle Hamilton being every analyst’s wet dream prospect but he could slide into the teens because he ran slow and safety usually isn’t a game changer unless your name is Ed Reed, Troy Palumalo, or Earl Thomas. People say the Panthers or Falcons will take a QB or that NO might trade up for one, but NFL GMs aren’t THAT blind are they? I wouldn’t be surprised if Ridder or Corral ended up as the best QB, why burn a lot of draft capital on Malik Willis (primed to be a huge bust) or tiny hands Pickett? From the Texans fan perspective, the radio guys are warning people to be prepared for a WTF pick at #3 like Jermaine Johnson or Charles Cross and the Caserio claiming that player was at the top of their board, they weren’t able to trade down a couple spots, and Houston feared the player wouldn’t be available at 13 so they went ahead and took them at 3. I’m so convinced they are retarded I would be happy with bland predictable (and perhaps small reach) picks like Evan Neal or Sauce at 3 and best available of Johnson, Stingley, Hamilton, Cross, or WR Garrett Wilson at 13. Hutchison won’t be there at 3, and IMO Travon Walker is too much of a gamble at 3 for a team so devoid of talent.

In a 3 point shooting league, are the Rockets sitting on so many great guards that they shouldn’t draft another one regardless of talent? We have Green and Christopher. Hopefully they sell on KPJ before his stock value craters. We have Sengun and KMJ as good bigs. I could go either way on Tate and some people like Bruno. Wood, Wall, and Gordon will all be gone soon. If an elite guard or wing is the best player on their board when they pick, they should grab them and figure out minutes and lineups between them, Green, and Christopher. It’s not like the Rockets are one good PF or C away from being a dynasty.

Portland once thought as you do. They had Clyde Drexler, so they passed on this Jordan guy because they already had their guard and Bowie was a big man. Portland may have found a way to make them co-exist, but who needs the best talent available in a league dominated by teams who have the most all stars?

I wonder what the hitter said as he rounded second. The umpire pointed at him and started walking towards him just before the pitcher throws down his glove and takes off.