Who would have thought that while we were watching Hard Knocks during the NFL Training camps back in July, that head coach Bill O’Brien would have his team knocking at the division door in a division that had Andrew Luck and the perennial division champion Indianapolis Colts.
We watched as quarterbacks Brian Hoyer and Ryan Mallett competed for the starting job with neither giving the Texans’ staff enough confidence where they could really say they had their man.
Neither had the skills to be a franchise quarterback, but Hoyer provided the game manager skills that gave management a warm fuzzy, while Mallett had the big arm but was lacking the maturity to be the real leader this team needed.