Houston Texans: Who's Tony Bergstrom?

I tell you what — after initial dust from the legal tampering period has settled, the Houston Texans have literally cleaned up!

I’ve got to tell you, I haven’t seen this team as aggressive as they have been in quite some time.

It makes me proud to know that they still give a damn about what the fans want.

I know they listen to what we have to say; but, all in all, they feel that they know what’s best for the team.

Having a decent quarterback has been a problem for quite a spell; and, let’s face it, there’s no way an NFL team can be successful if the quarterback play isn’t there.

The Texans seemed to ignore the problem over the years, building up the team in other positions.

Now that the core and support roles have been attached to the foundation, the problem of not having a skilled signal-caller continued to glare.

It was even more so when the Texans were severely routed by the Kansas City Chiefs during Week 1 and the embarrassing, bone-crunching 32-0 AFC Wild Card Game loss after an incredible 9-7 finish to the regular season.

But say no more — the Texans went out and got their man in Brock Osweiler, Lamar Miller and Jeff Allen.

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But there’s one more name missing.

Who am I talking about?

I’m talking about Tony Bergstrom.

Wait what?

Yes, it looks like we have new sheriff…er…uh…center in town!

The move was definitely necessitated as Ben Jones, our center for last season, decided to take the sack of cash being thrown at him and run.

And his case, he decided to make a bee-line for the Music City!

Yes, the Tennessee Titans were hurting for a center and they signed Jones to a four-year, $17.5 million deal with $7.5 million guaranteed earlier this week.

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I don’t blame him either — with the extremely huge windfall of cash that the NFL is getting as a result of their popularity setting new precedents, it’s good to know that they’re enabled to reward the people that make it happen, the players.

But we can always find reliable help at center…

In all reality, I liked Jones but didn’t necessarily love him on the offensive line.

I saw him as a guy who’s a hard-worker that is quite good in getting the job done.

And he certainly did do that…

Hell, I still wanted the Texans to retain Chris Myers for a little bit longer but his cap figure was just way too high last season when the Texans’ cap situation was a lot more tight as opposed to this year.

But I did love his jovial personality and as far as what he brought to the table and his ability to prove that he could eat anything at that said table.

We also got to know him a bit better on HBO’s critically-acclaimed series Hard Knocks as he was regular character that was typecast on the show.

But the beauty was that he wasn’t scripted, he let it loose and that’s a big reason why teams like the Titans noticed him.

But that’s what Hard Knocks does, it allows the rest of the world outside of H-Town to ingratiate themselves with our team to which I’m sure we’re an afterthought to media marketing behemoth in the Dallas Cowboys.

Good for Ben and I wish him the best.

Any way, we were able to land Bergstrom as he was fresh off his initial rookie deal with the Oakland Raiders.

The Texans were able to nab him for way less than Jones, Bergstrom signed for a two-year, $5.75 million deal with $1.5 million guaranteed.

Let me tell you, he’s definitely a Bill O’Brien-type player — he’s heavy-handed, athletic, industrious, can zone-block and is always willing to accept coaching to get better.

Those are all important attributes when one decides to come play for the Texans.

His weaknesses?

It has been said that he does have some power issues and his huge, 6’5″, 315-pound frame can be limiting out on the line but I certainly don’t think it’ll be a problem here.

It should work out just fine.

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But I’m sure he’s glad that he’ll have an opportunity to get out of the shadow cast by his counterpart in veteran Rodney Hudson and create a name for himself.

We’ll have to see.

Bergstrom, 29, appeared in all 16 games in 2015 with three starts.

Go Texans!

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Houston Texans: Who’s Tony Bergstrom?

By Brian K. Patterson | Mar 13, 2016

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