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NFL insider notes: Texans should start fire sale, Bortles breaks bad and more from Week 3
The Texans face the Colts with their season on the line in Week 4, and more notes from Week 3 in the NFL
As I wrote in this space a week ago, the Texans look cooked. They don't have anything really going for them, they got pushed around by the reeling 0-2 Giants on Sunday, and I don't fancy their chance of beating the spunky Colts next week. By the time we get to October this could be a lost season, and if this organization is smart it will embrace it. Make like a tanking baseball team and start selling off short-term assets.
I'd start the fire sale with J.J. Watt (scouts I talk to still don't think he's right and wonder if he ever will be close to his old form again) and Whitney Mercilus, who has had a very slow start. They have the cap space to handle the hit from the deal and might as well try to pump that savings into every attempt to extend Jadeveon Clowney, which won't be easy. Watt will be 30 next year, and this team is going to need a youth movement.
In the meantime, with a broken offensive line, the decision to change the offense in the offseason looks like a mistake. Watson, coming off season-ending injury, continues to look pensive and downright lost at times, and there isn't any part of this offense the Texans can bank on right now.
"It looks like (Bill) O'Brien is forcing his offense on Watson instead of opening it up to his legs," said one long-time NFL evaluator. "He needs to back him up and operate from shotgun and not so much under center."
Something better change, because a loss next week at Indianapolis and it's light's out.
The Texans face the Colts with their season on the line in Week 4, and more notes from Week 3 in the NFL
As I wrote in this space a week ago, the Texans look cooked. They don't have anything really going for them, they got pushed around by the reeling 0-2 Giants on Sunday, and I don't fancy their chance of beating the spunky Colts next week. By the time we get to October this could be a lost season, and if this organization is smart it will embrace it. Make like a tanking baseball team and start selling off short-term assets.
I'd start the fire sale with J.J. Watt (scouts I talk to still don't think he's right and wonder if he ever will be close to his old form again) and Whitney Mercilus, who has had a very slow start. They have the cap space to handle the hit from the deal and might as well try to pump that savings into every attempt to extend Jadeveon Clowney, which won't be easy. Watt will be 30 next year, and this team is going to need a youth movement.
In the meantime, with a broken offensive line, the decision to change the offense in the offseason looks like a mistake. Watson, coming off season-ending injury, continues to look pensive and downright lost at times, and there isn't any part of this offense the Texans can bank on right now.
"It looks like (Bill) O'Brien is forcing his offense on Watson instead of opening it up to his legs," said one long-time NFL evaluator. "He needs to back him up and operate from shotgun and not so much under center."
Something better change, because a loss next week at Indianapolis and it's light's out.
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i don't understand how he got hurt besides his pride being hurt.
TheMadLionsFan
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Giants should holla at Eric Reid. Our Free Safety can't take proper angles at offensive players. If we could trade for Earl Thomas giants offense could be top 5. Send Seattle a 5th or 6th and go all in this year.
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James Harrison: Le’Veon Bell should sign with the Steelers and fake an injury
Posted by Michael David Smith on September 26, 2018, 6:29 AM EDT
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The best-case scenario for unsigned Steelers franchise running back Le'Veon Bell would be to hit unrestricted free agency next year without taking any further wear and tear on his body. The problem is, if Bell shows up to play at any point this season, he’s going to risk an injury. And if he never shows up to work, he doesn’t get the accrued season he needs to become a free agent.
Former Steelers outside linebacker James Harrison has the perfect solution to Bell’s predicament: Sign the franchise tag before the deadline to get an accrued season, show up to work with the Steelers, but fake an injury to prevent himself from playing in any games.
“I think the play for Le’Veon, if I’m Le’Veon, is I’m coming back — what is it, November 13? — and I’m gonna go in there, I’m gonna get my credit for the season I need to get, and I’m gonna do the best I can to get out of that season healthy. And, for me, I’d give you everything in practice, you would see — the cameras would see — that I am fine, I am healthy. But come Saturday, ‘Something ain’t right, I can’t play on Sunday.’ Because if I go out here and I mess something up I’m losing a lot of money,” Harrison said on FS1.
Harrison makes an interesting case: Injured players still get paid and still accrue a season toward free agency. But there are problems with the plan. For starters, the Steelers would surely suspect that Bell was faking it and would argue that they’re entitled to suspend him without pay, rather than having to pay him. They’d also likely argue that a player can’t accrue a season while he’s suspended for faking injuries, and that would go before an arbitrator who might not find in Bell’s favor.
There’s also the question of whether any team would give Bell a big contract in free agency this year if he shows himself to be the kind of player who fakes injuries to get out of playing. Holding out is one thing. Signing a contract and then immediately refusing to honor it is something else.
So Harrison’s idea probably wouldn’t work the way he thinks it would. Even though Bell may find it intriguing.
Posted by Michael David Smith on September 26, 2018, 6:29 AM EDT
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The best-case scenario for unsigned Steelers franchise running back Le'Veon Bell would be to hit unrestricted free agency next year without taking any further wear and tear on his body. The problem is, if Bell shows up to play at any point this season, he’s going to risk an injury. And if he never shows up to work, he doesn’t get the accrued season he needs to become a free agent.
Former Steelers outside linebacker James Harrison has the perfect solution to Bell’s predicament: Sign the franchise tag before the deadline to get an accrued season, show up to work with the Steelers, but fake an injury to prevent himself from playing in any games.
“I think the play for Le’Veon, if I’m Le’Veon, is I’m coming back — what is it, November 13? — and I’m gonna go in there, I’m gonna get my credit for the season I need to get, and I’m gonna do the best I can to get out of that season healthy. And, for me, I’d give you everything in practice, you would see — the cameras would see — that I am fine, I am healthy. But come Saturday, ‘Something ain’t right, I can’t play on Sunday.’ Because if I go out here and I mess something up I’m losing a lot of money,” Harrison said on FS1.
Harrison makes an interesting case: Injured players still get paid and still accrue a season toward free agency. But there are problems with the plan. For starters, the Steelers would surely suspect that Bell was faking it and would argue that they’re entitled to suspend him without pay, rather than having to pay him. They’d also likely argue that a player can’t accrue a season while he’s suspended for faking injuries, and that would go before an arbitrator who might not find in Bell’s favor.
There’s also the question of whether any team would give Bell a big contract in free agency this year if he shows himself to be the kind of player who fakes injuries to get out of playing. Holding out is one thing. Signing a contract and then immediately refusing to honor it is something else.
So Harrison’s idea probably wouldn’t work the way he thinks it would. Even though Bell may find it intriguing.
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https://bleacherreport.com/articles...omas-is-here-to-make-history-not-to-be-famous
Good read. Thomas was a top 3 WR last year and still didnt get any love
Good read. Thomas was a top 3 WR last year and still didnt get any love