Vaya con dios, asqueroso grande
Jul 22, 2008 2006 Draft, 2008 Draft, 2008 Season, Barbaro is dead, Charles Spencer, Curious Coaching, Duane Brown as Eliza Doolittle, Roster, Tim Bulman
First, my Spanish sucks. Sorry if my translation is off.
Anyway, by now I’m sure you’ve heard that Charles “Big Nasty” Spencer was released today. I don’t think any of us expected him to be the LT of the future, especially after the arrival of Alex Gibbs and Duane Brown. Nor do I think anyone was shocked that a round of cuts came today considering that the team had to get down to 80 players by Friday and the easiest way to get there was to get rid of the guys least likely to make the team. (Which is also why DGDB&D fave Jon Abbate as well as DT Eric Powell and G Dan Stevenson were sent packing this afternoon.)
No, I guess the only surprise, to the extent that there is one, is that Spencer was listed among the guys least likely to make the team, ahead of (or behind, I guess) such notables as TE Ryan Krause and/or 5-10 WR Mark Simmons. Nothing against those guys, but you’d think that seeing what (if anything) Spencer had in the tank would be worth more than seeing what Mark Simmons brings to the table. (Editor’s guess: Not much.)
In other, slightly related news while we are talking about roster space, I am still baffled about our continued employment of Bryan Pittman when THREE other Texans (Dreessen, Bulman, and Zgonina) can do his job while simultaneously not being limited to ONLY doing his job. Dreessen would actually be the perfect dude to fill the dual role, as he is not asked to do much in the TE department on most days.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 5:55 pm
As a Wake grad, I’m sad to see Abbate go.
Since he nearly made the team last year until he got hurt, I wonder if his cut means the Texans might only go with one FB this year to make room for an extra RB?
Probably not. Just trying to make myself feel better about the loss of my Deacon Texan.
With the 80 man limit, Spencer’s 2nd game might have been his last. Sad.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I actually did look around for long snapper stats, and I couldn’t find any. Perhaps one of your fine readers can dig that up… but I think Pittman is one of the better ones in the NFL, with that San Diego/Matt Turk disaster being his only recent mistake.
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Don’t think I forgot about that play. Fucking Matt Turk. The least athletic man in the NFL. KICK THE FUCKING BALL OUT OF THE ENDZONE, DICK!!
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July 22nd, 2008 at 5:58 pm
@DiehardChris: I’ve heard the same thing, but I wonder if being the best longsnapper is more like being the smartest guy at OU or the ugliest chick at OU?
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July 22nd, 2008 at 7:03 pm
@DiehardChris: That play may well have been the worst thing these eyes have ever seen. And I am a Texans fan.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Is Jeff Zgonina the only man in the world with bigger calves than me?
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July 22nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
@bigwood25: Actually, yes.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Have you ever considered think listing the upcoming Houston season schedule over on the right side of the homepage?
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July 22nd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
@bigwood25: We are going to do a big site redesign at some point in the near(ish) future, so I will definitely have that on there. I’d like to have it auto-update with point spreads and shit.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Love the spreads bit. That’d be bad ass. I also yearn for a Top 5 Faves current/all-time post soon…that would actually be a pretty good discussion generator with this bunch.
I’m officially on the Chris Long bandwagon by the way. He’ll never be as good as your Super Mario, but I don’t think 8-10 sacks this year is out of the question.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Oh, and the ONLY “Big Nasty” ’round chere is Mr. Corliss Williamson, sir.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
@Tim: At least the Texans have never had a kicker that probably even pissed crooked, like Lin Elliot. I was at this game, and I’ve NEVER, EVAR, EVAR been more fucking pissed in my life!!! They even came out with a cartoon of him pissing and missing the toilet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_playoffs,_1995-96. I guess I hold a grudge, even 12 years later.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
@All: Sorry…that was the year Dallas won the Superbowl. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 8:56 pm
As former Missourians, there’s no way Matt or I could forget that Lin Elliot fiasco. Unbelievable.
Still, having choking ass Elvis Grbac replace a completely en fuego future-MVP Rich Gannon just before the playoffs a couple years later was far more disgusting to me. “Starters don’t lose their jobs to injury.” OR you move the old crippled bastards to second string and get your occassional Tom Brady* out of the mix.
*didn’t have the heart to say “Marc Bulger” here. I still love Kurt Warner. Thank you, Jesus.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
@bigwood25: OK..you have a point with Elvis “I had to have sucked someone’s cock to get this gig” Grbac, but I still harbor the bad feelings for Lin.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 9:07 pm
@Matt: Are you impressed? 2 actual football-related posts in a week!! Can you believe it? Just wait for Texans football to start…you’ll be running scared then!! Buahhhhhhhahhhahhahahaaaa!
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July 22nd, 2008 at 9:07 pm
@Foomey: @bigwood25: WE DO NOT SPEAK ILL OF THE GRBAC!!!!
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OK, fine, he sucked. But I fucking LOVED him in college.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 9:14 pm
He single-handedly made the Ravens a one-year dynasty. SO bad he just had to get the fuck out after that. Biggest choke job QB that ever played the game. Forgot your Michigan loyalty, you KNOW it’s true.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 9:21 pm
@bigwood25: He was a God. I’ll hear no different.
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Damn it.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 9:27 pm
@bigwood25: You have at least three cousins who could have been nicknamed “Big Nasty.”
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July 22nd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
@Matt: There, there, Matt…would you feel better burying your head in my bosom and crying it all out?
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July 22nd, 2008 at 9:45 pm
@Matt: @Matt: Indeed. That’s one Wildebeest/Yeti, one Leak Leg, and one “why does the video make me look so fat?” by my count. NASTY.
And they’re SECOND cousins, damn you.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
“@ Matt” TWICE. For effec(t). Ok, I’m just an idiot.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 10:36 pm
The silver lining to the sad releases today should simply be the word “DEPTH.” We finally have depth.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 7:07 am
Spencer’s days were numbered the day Gibbs was hired.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 8:06 am
@Charlie: Also a Wake grad, and said to see Abatte go. No more viewing parties with Texans in attendance.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 am
BARBARO is DEAD. RIP.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 8:45 am
@Matt: Aren’t good long snappers pretty valuable? I think on some teams they’re paid more than the kickers are.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 10:43 am
I think I remember something about Pittman having one of the longest streaks without a bad snap until that Stanley fiasco last year….I think that might have been his first…..or I’m just making shit up again. Either way I’ve wanted to see the Texans quit tying up a roster spot with him for years.
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Everyone says that Spencer was doomed as soon as Gibbs was hired, but remember when they drafted him they thought that he was better suited to the(usually more athletic) LT spot than Caveman.I know we are now running a true Zone system…and he could have put on some more weight, and I think there was some concern about Caveman’s short arms at LT….I just don’t think Gibbs made Spencer an automatic casualty.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
@Papabear: You mean “making shit up again” like us having Chad Stanley last year? Like that?
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July 23rd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
@beef: I think PB made a Freudian slip. He’s probably just dropping the name hoping for someone to bust out the Turd Eating Pederast nickname.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
@Shake: And who could really blame him? That was, IMO one of the best yet. We should prolly go ahead and rank them all now…