Len Pasquarelli:
"One game into this "consultant" gig with the Houston Texans, and Dan Reeves has done a pretty nice job, huh? It's like Reeves, who has the itch to coach again, was tailor-made for the position, right? Amazing, isn't it, the wisdom that Reeves apparently bestowed on the Texans in such a very short time.
Then again, if you are a Texans fan who was hoping to see Southern Cal tailback and playmaker nonpareil Reggie Bush in a Houston uniform, you might not be too thrilled with Sunday's 30-19 victory over Arizona, which lost quarterback Kurt Warner for the rest of the year with a knee injury. The victory sets up the season finale against San Francisco as a real "Bush Bowl," which it had not been before Sunday's events. You see, head-to-head results don't enter into the tiebreaker when it comes to draft position. So if the Texans were 1-14 entering the finale, and San Francisco was 2-13, and the Texans won to finish the year at 2-14, it wouldn't have mattered in the draft-slot tiebreaker. Ties in the draft are broken by strength of schedule, with the team that has the weakest aggregate opponents' record getting the top spot.
At this point, Houston's opponents have a .544 winning mark, and San Francisco's are at .587. It would have been difficult for the Texans to catch the 49ers in terms of winning percentage of opponents, so if both teams finished 2-14, Houston almost certainly would have gotten the top choice, and most likely Bush."
Alex22, Davis has struggled this year, Jonathan Wells is a free agent and Bush would give them something ridiculously special. A game breaker in the backfield who would get 25 touches at TB, WR, KR, etc and who could, along with Andre Johnson, help lift this team out of the mire.
Plus with a hugely strong group of LT's in this years draft, going deep into R3 with quality, why miss out on the next Barry Sanders, when you can get a very fine left tackle at the top of R2?