OT: Texans Release Ryan Mallett After Missing Team Flight
Not the best few weeks for Ryan.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/13984288/houston-texans-release-qb-ry…
October 27th, 2015 at 1:38 PM ^
a golden opportunity away...what a head case.
He was a little child here
October 27th, 2015 at 1:39 PM ^
October 27th, 2015 at 1:44 PM ^
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October 27th, 2015 at 4:30 PM ^
That'd be JJ Watt's job. But only with NFL Films/ESPN grabbing the B-Roll.
October 27th, 2015 at 1:40 PM ^
Sad to hear he hasn't changed much since he was a Freshman at Michigan. All the talent in the world is of no use if you can't (or won't) be reliable.
October 27th, 2015 at 1:42 PM ^
just don't get it. If you get benched, keep working to get back on the field. Acting like a baby is never going to get you what you want. Backup QB has got to be one of the best/easiest jobs in the NFL (3-4 million a year to not get hit, what a ridiculous concept). Mallet may have just ended a very lucrative career (with little risk for injury) because he just couldn't handle not being good enough to be the starter. SMH....
October 27th, 2015 at 1:43 PM ^
He woke up late on Hard Knocks too.
October 27th, 2015 at 1:43 PM ^
The cupboard was bare in 2008, I thought they were talking about the roster. My Bad.
October 27th, 2015 at 1:44 PM ^
October 27th, 2015 at 1:44 PM ^
I've always assumed it's a requirement for an NFL quarterback. Shows they are intelligent, confident, capable, etc. Things needed to be the leader of an NFL offense.
Having watched Hard Knocks, Mallet sounds like a fucking idiot every time he opens his mouth.
Hard to believe many teammates will be missing his presence in the locker room.
October 27th, 2015 at 1:45 PM ^
at all. When my senior year of football was over, I was crushed. It was hard for me to adjust a year later when practice was on and I was graduated. I played football since 6th grade and would've loved to play after high school. It's too bad when these athletes take take their sports for granted. After serving in the military for some years, I've come to a realization that some of them need "a good shot to the solar plexus" as Gunny Ermey says.
October 27th, 2015 at 1:45 PM ^
He made $1.7 million this year.
Fuck em.
October 27th, 2015 at 5:00 PM ^
and in a state that has no income tax.
October 27th, 2015 at 1:46 PM ^
From Texas, and they need a QB...not a bad landing spot
October 27th, 2015 at 1:56 PM ^
/adjusts tin foil hat.
Jerry is a Razorback, I'm sure he could find back channels to Ryan to instruct him to deliberately fuck up his shot in Houston so that he can come to Dallas with that load of talent and drag their bloated corpse to the top of the NFC East and into the playoffs.
October 27th, 2015 at 1:50 PM ^
Story of the Brady backups. Texans never had a foil to Andre Johnson when he was here. Now Deandre Hopkins is the star attraction but he doesn't play at the AJ level. Both Mallet and Hoyer have been let down by the receivers. At least Hoyer has some touch on the mid range passes, Mallet just kept the same velocity. Obviously that didn't work out. Hopefully the Hoyer Experiment will be more successful than the Mallet era.
October 27th, 2015 at 1:51 PM ^
It seemed like every one of them was perfect, no matter if it was 40, 50, or more yards in the air. Loved watching him throw.
October 27th, 2015 at 2:06 PM ^
What I remember most from Michigan was when he would start to scramble. He would hold the ball with his arm straight out to the side just begging for a defender to knock it out...and they did...a lot.
October 27th, 2015 at 1:52 PM ^
an alarm clock? I mean phones or ipads don't have alarms on them...
what a douche. Bad attitude on top of being unreliable.
October 27th, 2015 at 4:05 PM ^
Are you surprised?
He had to buy a coat when he got to Michigan in the winter.
Not the sharpest knife . . .
October 27th, 2015 at 5:14 PM ^
that explains a lot.
October 27th, 2015 at 1:53 PM ^
Guy never seems to get it right.
October 27th, 2015 at 1:55 PM ^
Another masterful trade by the Pats
October 27th, 2015 at 1:58 PM ^
I'm sure Petrino will try to find him some eligibility and take him back.
October 27th, 2015 at 2:07 PM ^
Maybe he could come back to Michigan and have Harbaugh straighten him out for a year.
October 27th, 2015 at 2:23 PM ^
for projects with attitudes.
October 27th, 2015 at 2:01 PM ^
I watched Ryan Mallett pouting on the sidelines after he took himself out of the game after getting dinged up a few weeks ago. Hoyer came in and led the Texans on a nice drive. Mallett never saw the field again, and pouted like a little kid on the sidelines. The TV cameras were eating it up. I think Phil Simms was the TV analyst who, I'm paraphrasing, said that Mallett should have really considered whether he was injured enough to come off the field.
Mallett will latch on with another desperate team, but he's a poison pill as far as I'm considered. I fully expect to see him in a Lions uniform within the next 6 months.
October 27th, 2015 at 2:03 PM ^
+1 Lions dig LOL
October 27th, 2015 at 2:12 PM ^
That was concussion protocol that kept him out for a play and Hoyer took the chance with both hands. Thankfully O'Brien didn't see the need to put him back in the game. Texans scores are very deceptive this season. They have scored a lot of points down two scores or more and no hope of winning. So judging the QBs by how many scoring drives they have led is inaccurate.
October 27th, 2015 at 2:54 PM ^
You might be right about concussion protocol on that play. I thought Mallett was readying himself to go back in the game, then was very pissed when Hoyer went on the field for the next series (this decision may have been concussion protocol). I don't remember the injury situation, although I do remember the analyst mentioning something about "be careful about taking yourself out of the game", knowing that a more-than-ready backup was chomping at the bit. The analyst was off-base if this injury was potentially a concussion.
Mallett still pouted on the sidelines, including some obvious muttered F-bombs. Maybe he was upset to be injured, thus the pouting. His attitude history, though, doesn't seem to back this scenario up.
The bigger question: why was I watching the Texans?! I'm not a Houston fan.
October 27th, 2015 at 3:11 PM ^
At least that's how I usually rationalize it to myself.
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October 27th, 2015 at 4:42 PM ^
Thanks. That was the answer. Thursday night football explains why I was watching.
October 27th, 2015 at 2:01 PM ^
Report this morning that O'Brien wanted to cut his ass on Saturday but the GM stopped it. My guess is that O"brien prolly threw down the guantlet on this one cause knowing his personality I could definitely see him tellng the Texans to shove it if they demanded he keep Mallet on the roster.
So maybe all these years we've had it wrong. Looks to me like Lloyd was doing Rich a solid when he pushed him to transfer.
October 27th, 2015 at 2:08 PM ^
Mallett and his family maintain he was open to staying at Michigan had Rodriguez been open to utilizing his skill set as a pro style passer.
October 27th, 2015 at 2:15 PM ^
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October 27th, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^
Mallet was always a transfer risk, and he believed (incorectly) that Rich Rod was going to try turn him into a spread/running QB or not use him at all.
Mallet wanted to go & Lloyd advised him that if you want to, now's the time.
October 27th, 2015 at 2:21 PM ^
October 27th, 2015 at 2:38 PM ^
WTF does that refer to? Anyways to answer your question here's what John U Bacon had to say about the transfers:
"For whatever reason, before Rodriguez had met any of those people, Carr had made up his mind to help his players transfer.
Until Coach Carr speaks, I can’t say why he called the transfer meeting. (As stated before, I made repeated requests to interview him at his convenience. While he declined to respond, I have since confirmed there is no question he received my requests and made a firm decision not to reply.) But I can say that he definitely did call the transfer meeting, that it was a premeditated decision—based on Draper’s call to compliance to have the forms and personnel ready to process the anticipated flood of requests—and it occurred before Rodriguez met any of his assistants or players."
As quoted from 3 and out.
October 27th, 2015 at 4:48 PM ^
He was referencing The_Mad_Hatters' "shot" at RichRod. TMH's comment suggested that RichRod never would have given Mallett a shot or made no effort to do so. He objected to this as an improper characterization, which plenty here agree with. But others don't.
Go down that rabbit hole if you like...........
October 27th, 2015 at 4:59 PM ^
October 27th, 2015 at 5:05 PM ^
I thought you and I were of similar minds on this topic and didnt remember ever really disagreeing with you before so I was surprised at your comment (when I incorrectly thought it was directed at me).
October 27th, 2015 at 3:31 PM ^
And that's exactly how Bo Callahan's career would have gone. I bet that none of Mallet's teammates were at his birthday party either.
October 27th, 2015 at 7:25 PM ^
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October 27th, 2015 at 2:06 PM ^
Per CBS Houston, you can find this sign outside a clock shop in the Houston area now...
October 27th, 2015 at 5:34 PM ^
Funniest thing I've seen all day.
October 27th, 2015 at 2:06 PM ^
I was the OP, and I'm just clarifying: Are posts about Ryan Mallett, Sam McGuffie, Blake Countess, etc., OT?
October 27th, 2015 at 2:10 PM ^
The answer to that would be - "technically, no". However briefly, Mallett was a Wolverine and he was in on some of the nicer moments in the 2007 season, as I recall. Any former Wolverine is not OT basically, even if they did not finish their college career at Michigan.
October 27th, 2015 at 7:24 PM ^
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October 27th, 2015 at 2:10 PM ^
players. But not this time. Mallet and his immature, prima donna personality deserves everything he gets. If you have a problem with the coach or team, you talk with them and work it out like a man - not pouting and acting like a baby. It doesn't matter if some other team picks him up or not. He doesn't have the maturity or leadership to lead an NFL team.
October 27th, 2015 at 8:28 PM ^
He did not stay.... therefore he is NOT a champion! His next stop will probably be a QB coach at a high school somewhere.