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Texans: Do You Trust The Front Office To Find A Quarterback?

By Yoni Pollak

Aug 21, 2014; Englewood, CO, USA; Denver Broncos coach John Fox (second from left) talks with Houston Texans general manager Rick Smith (left), chief operating officer D. Cal McNair (second from right) and owner Bob McNair (right) during scrimmage against the Denver Broncos at the Broncos Headquarters. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Aug 21, 2014; Englewood, CO, USA; Denver Broncos coach John Fox (second from left) talks with Houston Texans general manager Rick Smith (left), chief operating officer D. Cal McNair (second from right) and owner Bob McNair (right) during scrimmage against the Denver Broncos at the Broncos Headquarters. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Houston Texans need a quarterback this offseason.

The Houston Texans also needed a quarterback last offseason. And the offseason prior to that.

Ryan Fitzpatrick was exactly what we all expected. Brian Hoyer was also exactly as advertised. Both were average to below-average quarterbacks capable of beating the Titans and Jaguars of the league, but not able to go out there and win you an important game.

After back-to-back 9-7 seasons with the two (and Case Keenum, T.J. Yates, Ryan Mallett, Tom Savage, Brandon Weeden and B.J. Daniels), the Texans are exactly where they have been since the end of the Matt Schaub era: without a starting quarterback for the future.

The good news is that owner Bob McNair said earlier this week that they need to find a good and young quarterback in the draft this year. That’s all fine and dandy. But…he also said this:

A group process and they’ll need a consensus?!? Does that mean this front office somehow came to a consensus on bringing in both Ryan Fitzpatrick and Brian Hoyer back-to-back offseasons?!? I mean, damn.

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This front office has neglected the single most important position in ALL of sports for the last several years. I can’t blame them for Matt Schaub falling off the face of the earth, but they had a chance to rectify their situation.

The 2014 draft had quarterbacks. Not selecting Blake Bortles or Johnny Manziel at #1 was fine. Taking Jadeveon Clowney, though maybe not currently the best defensive player from the draft, was still the right pick at the time and may one day prove it. However, two quarterbacks which both would have made our team better this year AND given the team a vision for the future, Derek Carr and Teddy Bridgewater, both should have been considered.

Bridgewater was taken a pick before the Texans’ #33 pick, but the Texans knew teams would be trading up in that spot to take him so they could have easily sent another pick Seattle’s way to help secure Bridgewater. Or…the Texans could have simply selected Carr at #33 and moved on with their day. But that damn last name scared them away. Bummer.

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Good quarterbacks don’t grow on trees. It’s amazing that there are over 300 million people in the United States and we can’t find 32 good quarterbacks. Still, our front office has had their chances to at least give the franchise a vision or a project at quarterback and they haven’t taken it.

So when McNair says that it will be a group process and the front office needs to come to a consensus first, yes, I’m scared. I’m scared for the Texans’ future. I don’t know if I could trust the core decision-makers. They haven’t given us a reason to do so yet.

I’m waiting.

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