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Patron Tequila is a no-good, lying bastard

Jun 29, 2007 2007 Draft, Demarcus Faggins sucks, Dunta Robinson, Like whoa, Rebuttals, Secondary issues are primary

It’s Friday and I’m hungover. Hungover like whoa. Even the thought of writing something long and (semi-) coherent makes my head hurt a little more. So you are getting some randomness right now, with a possibility of real posting should this coffee and McDonald’s turn out to be a panacea.

• Big Blue Shoe surrenders.¹ He also writes a pretty fair post about our revamped defense, though he seems to have misunderstood the gist of my Dunta Robinson breakdown. (Note: It’s not that I don’t think he’s as good as advertised; it’s that the numbers actually SHOW that he’s not as good as advertised.) Oh, well… baby steps.
• The NFL Supplemental Draft is next month. For those teams looking to pick up guys who were kicked off of teams, academically ineligible, and/or otherwise not going to play anymore NCAA pigskin, the Supplemental Draft is a godsend. Yahoo! Sports has a breakdown of some of the higher profile low profile players. The author of that piece seems to think we’ll be in the mix for Nebraska OL Chris Patrick. To which I say “blah.” I am somewhat interested, however, in UConn SS/OLB Donta Moore. Dude is tough, fast, and can tackle like a mofo (that’s a technical term). Which is a description that you generally don’t give to C.C. Brown.
• Thomas Hilton has a nice recap of pre-camp player news from around the web. There’s even some fantasy football talk. At some later point, I want to do a fantasy football breakdown of this team that goes further than the “Andre Johnson is good” chatter we usually get. I’ll give you a sneak peak, though, right now. If you are in a 50-team league that uses individual defensive players, you should try to snag Petey Faggins somewhere around pick 985.
  
• Finally, Pro Football Talk reports, in a very smug and condescending manner, that the Texans’ string of sell-outs might be coming to an end. Please note, though, that you have to scroll down past where he drops the soap for Sprint-Nextel.

• Though the Houston Texans like to boast about the fact that they’ve had 50 straight sellouts in five years of existence, there’s a chance that the number might not get much higher. Or any higher.

  Thanks to a head’s-up from a reader, it appears that the Texans are having trouble selling their season tickets. Currently, “less than 2,000” are available, which means that as many as 1,999 are left — despite the prior existence of a “priority wait list.”

  So the inference that can be drawn is that, after a chunk of last year’s season-ticket holders passed on renewing and after the folks on the waiting list got their chance to buy tickets, there are still about $1 million worth of unsold season seats.

  But should any of this be surprising to anyone? After three years of improvement, the Texans tanked in 2005, and then committed the football equivalent of passing on Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson by leaving Reggie Bush and Vince Young on the draft board in April 2006. [Author's Note: You can almost smell the exaggeration, it's so thick.] If either of those guys were playing in Houston, we suspect that every 2007 game would be already sold out.

  As it stands, it could be that the only 2007 games that will be fully sold out will be those in which Bush and Young will make their visits to town.

  Jerk.

¹ I can’t decide if I am amused or annoyed that he tried to sound magnanimous about the whole ordeal with the “he kicked my post’s metaphorical ass, but at least I didn’t call him names” bit. (I’m paraphrasing.) Like I said to him in the comments, I called his mom names. And that’s only if you find the scent of rotting French cheese to be offensive.