(04-16-2024, 05:31 AM)RicoTx Wrote:

(04-15-2024, 10:37 PM)StrayaJag Wrote: Pay the man

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Not to derail the trevor thread
But as a texans fan do u truly believe Stroud is the guy for you.

If he had a repeat season like last year, would u start the extensions talks ?

Seeing as they aren’t allowed until after his third season, I’d guess no.

Yes, I truly believe that Stroud is "the guy." Short of taking the 2nd worst team in the league (2022-23) to the Superbowl, there's not much more you could have asked him to do as a rookie.

Watching how quickly he developed throughout the season was nothing short of amazing.  Let alone playing his first 4 games with an Oline, that was so banged up they started four 2nd stringers in their first win , and a 3rd stringer the next week in the win over the playoff-bound Steelers, while he was still just getting his feet wet.  Each time he made a 'rookie' mistake, it seemed like the next game he had corrected it.

Here are the NFL records that he set/tied:

• Youngest starting quarterback to win a playoff game: 22 years 3 months 10 days
  
• Most passing attempts without an interception to start a career: 191 (2023)
  
• Most games with at least 350 passing yards by a rookie: 3 (tied) (2023)
  
• Most passing yards in a single game by a rookie: 470 (November 5, 2023, vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
  
• Most passing touchdowns in a single game by a rookie: 5 (tied) (November 5, 2023, vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
  

Learning on the job, with a banged up Oline, and limiting your interceptions to 5 for the year is truly ridiculous.  His accuracy and anticipation downfield is something the Texans have never had, and have never come close to in the teams history.  But beyond the records/stats, you could see that he elevated the entire team.

RicoTx is of course right, they can't extend his contract next year, but I would make a very large bet that Stroud will be an all-pro at some point in his career and (short of a devastating injury) he'll stay with Texans throughout his career.  Of course there will be the unavoidable ups and downs, but he has such a well-balanced game I predict there will be many more ups than downs.

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