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Texans' $37 Million Gamble on Brock Osweiler Not as Risky as It First Seems
Three hundred and five pass attempts are an awfully small number of pass attempts on which to base a quarterback investment of $18 million per year, with $37 million guaranteed.
Drew Brees throws more passes before Halloween in a typical season than Brock Osweiler has thrown in four years. You can watch every single regular-season NFL pass Osweiler has ever thrown?with a notebook out and free use of the rewind button?in less time than it takes to watch about four episodes of The Walking Dead.
It's terrifying to entrust the future of a franchise to a quarterback with 305 attempts. It's somehow much more terrifying than handing the keys to a rookie with zero attempts. Potential has a habit of rotting on the bench, even when it's stuck behind a legend.
One can be a Brock Osweiler skeptic because of those 305 attempts, particularly the final 22: the ones that got him benched in the 2015 season finale. More about those last 22 attempts in a moment.
But the Texans are not putting their faith in just those 305 attempts. Their investment?as reported by Mark Berman of Fox 26?is in all the things Osweiler did when he wasn't on the field throwing footballs.
Osweiler spent four years in meeting rooms and on practice fields with Peyton Manning while working for an organization run by John Elway. Few quarterbacks on Earth can boast a more impressive internship. Few had better mentors for how to prepare, how to watch film and how to be a professional.
Osweiler participated in two Super Bowls, one as a young player on a mostly young team that lost badly, one as a veteran contributor on a more experienced team that upset everyone in its path. He learned how a team handles the change of atmosphere when it reaches deep into the playoffs. He stood before the media during media day and fielded semi-tough questions about replacing, and being replaced by, a fading superstar. Osweiler is ready to handle the little rigors of life as a starting quarterback that other newcomers must learn on the fly.
Granted, the Texans have turned to the backups to Hall of Fame quarterbacks in the past. Brian Hoyer and Ryan Mallett received some of the same learning experiences from Tom Brady that Osweiler got from Manning. But there are two key differences:
Mallett didn't really take advantage of his Brady tutelage. And not even a Brady blood transfusion could grant Hoyer the talent to be anything but a reliable, high-effort backup.
Bill O'Brien can teach a young quarterback Brady-Patriots secrets; that's one of his primary selling points. Now, instead of doubling down with one of his old pupils, he can mesh his wisdom with Osweiler's Manning-Broncos experience to create from Osweiler a Super Brady Manning Hybrid, but with a stronger arm than either of them!
Three hundred and five pass attempts are an awfully small number of pass attempts on which to base a quarterback investment of $18 million per year, with $37 million guaranteed.
Drew Brees throws more passes before Halloween in a typical season than Brock Osweiler has thrown in four years. You can watch every single regular-season NFL pass Osweiler has ever thrown?with a notebook out and free use of the rewind button?in less time than it takes to watch about four episodes of The Walking Dead.
It's terrifying to entrust the future of a franchise to a quarterback with 305 attempts. It's somehow much more terrifying than handing the keys to a rookie with zero attempts. Potential has a habit of rotting on the bench, even when it's stuck behind a legend.
One can be a Brock Osweiler skeptic because of those 305 attempts, particularly the final 22: the ones that got him benched in the 2015 season finale. More about those last 22 attempts in a moment.
But the Texans are not putting their faith in just those 305 attempts. Their investment?as reported by Mark Berman of Fox 26?is in all the things Osweiler did when he wasn't on the field throwing footballs.
Osweiler spent four years in meeting rooms and on practice fields with Peyton Manning while working for an organization run by John Elway. Few quarterbacks on Earth can boast a more impressive internship. Few had better mentors for how to prepare, how to watch film and how to be a professional.
Osweiler participated in two Super Bowls, one as a young player on a mostly young team that lost badly, one as a veteran contributor on a more experienced team that upset everyone in its path. He learned how a team handles the change of atmosphere when it reaches deep into the playoffs. He stood before the media during media day and fielded semi-tough questions about replacing, and being replaced by, a fading superstar. Osweiler is ready to handle the little rigors of life as a starting quarterback that other newcomers must learn on the fly.
Granted, the Texans have turned to the backups to Hall of Fame quarterbacks in the past. Brian Hoyer and Ryan Mallett received some of the same learning experiences from Tom Brady that Osweiler got from Manning. But there are two key differences:
Mallett didn't really take advantage of his Brady tutelage. And not even a Brady blood transfusion could grant Hoyer the talent to be anything but a reliable, high-effort backup.
Bill O'Brien can teach a young quarterback Brady-Patriots secrets; that's one of his primary selling points. Now, instead of doubling down with one of his old pupils, he can mesh his wisdom with Osweiler's Manning-Broncos experience to create from Osweiler a Super Brady Manning Hybrid, but with a stronger arm than either of them!
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