Ryan Fitzpatrick named Houston Texans' starting QB

[MidnightVoice]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap200...ns-starting-qb

Someone has to start under center for the Houston Texans. Why not Ryan Fitzpatrick?

Coach Bill O'Brien announced Tuesday that the veteran quarterback has won the team's No. 1 role.

"He's a guy that earned the job," said O'Brien following Houston's mandatory minicamp session.

Anointing Fitzpatrick ends speculation that he would be forced to compete with the likes of Case Keenum, T.J. Yates and rookie Tom Savage come July. The Texans have hinted that one of those passers might be released sooner than later.

And yoy think we have problems?

[BuffaloWingEater]

he will be very serviceable, flutter some throws, and some really bad int's at poor times.

[DynaPaul]

Poor Houston. Should have kept Schaub.

[Skooby]

Enjoy our trash.

[ghz in pittsburgh]

That's just odd. Fitz is the kind of QB usually looks bad at camp because arm strength etc. but looks good in games when his intelligence shows the difference adapting to changing environment.

[swiper]

I have a hard time ragging on Fitz. He gave it his all on every game. He just wasn't good enough. But I'd still rather be stuck with him than what we have now.

[Generalissimus Gibby]

They will have a very good september, a mediocre october, and will be out of the playoff hunt by early December.

[better days]

he will be very serviceable, flutter some throws, and some really bad int's at poor times.

Fitz should be just good enough for the Texans to be mediocre, giving them a mediocre draft position next year.

[Parzival]

He's a stop gap. Here, he was supposed to be the answer.

[stuckincincy]

They will have a very good september, a mediocre october, and will be out of the playoff hunt by early December.

May well be - they seem to be rebuilding:

http://espn.go.com/blog/houston-texa...losing-players

Drafting Clowney and G Xavier Su'o-Filo should help, as well as LB Brian Cushing and CJ Jon Joseph returning.

[TacklingDummy]

Great, there's a loss for the Bills.

Take it to the bank.

[pmoon6]

Enjoy our trash.

Calling a guy that worked his ass of to earn an NFL starting QB's job and spending quite a few years in the league "trash" is a bit much.

That's what people that can't do themselves resort to. They criticize because they have little other choice. Impotent wankers with small lives and even smaller talent and ability.

[trapezeus]

it's the model the bills wanted last year...and they would have employed with fitz if we didn't have a senile old man in buddy nix talking on the phone.

you let fitz play 4 games and see where you are. hopefully that gives the young ones more time to put it together.

we had to let fitz go, got kolb and he died on a bathmat (or something like that). So ej went in day 1. i can promise you, we'd all be a lot more excited if ej missed the first 5-6 games learning and came in the back end showing what he could do. perhaps some of the injuries are avoided.

that being said, fitz isn't going to help them win this year, and i think the team is fine with that.

[Night Train]

They are gutting and starting over like an expansion team. This is like Bill Polian getting a Vet in Frank Reich to QB Carolina in 1995 while looking for the next guy ( Kerry Collins, who took them to the NFC Championship game the very next year ).

They will run a lot and get some stability with a limited but smart QB. It's been done many times and O'Brien seems to be doing things right in year 1.

[Bill Cody]

championship

[Forward_Lateral]

Good for him, I hope he makes the Probowl. Just not vs the Bills

[pmoon6]

championship

With their running game and what I think will be a really good defense, that is a possibility.

[Bill Cody]

With their running game and what I think will be a really good defense, that is a possibility.

no

[pmoon6]

no

Are you really Jimmy The Greek reincarnated?

[better days]

it's the model the bills wanted last year...and they would have employed with fitz if we didn't have a senile old man in buddy nix talking on the phone.

you let fitz play 4 games and see where you are. hopefully that gives the young ones more time to put it together.

we had to let fitz go, got kolb and he died on a bathmat (or something like that). So ej went in day 1. i can promise you, we'd all be a lot more excited if ej missed the first 5-6 games learning and came in the back end showing what he could do. perhaps some of the injuries are avoided.

that being said, fitz isn't going to help them win this year, and i think the team is fine with that.

There was another GM on the other end of that call.

I don't see how Nix can be blamed for that prank.

Fitz was going to get cut anyway because his contract was much too expensive.