I'm a big Texans fan- probably know more about them than most of their own players do. So this is going to be fun
I have a different view on Schaub than most. I think he's ok, but im not sure if he can lead a team to a Super Bowl. I actually liked what I saw from TJ Yates a lot last year. In his first NFL action to have him stepping in without any snaps with any of the players on the field and leading them down a 2 minute drive for 50+ yards with no timeouts and getting a FG is exceptional. I think that Schaub getting injured again would be the best thing that could happen to this team. You could tell if you read between the lines how excited the main players and coaches were about him last year- of course it was a bit of an awkward position for Schaub and they definitely weren't going to throw him under the bus so they said all the right things to lend their support. The truth of the matter is that hes had several seasons with one of the best offensive minds of our time (3 Super Bowls in the 90s with him running the offense for the Broncos remember) so of course hes going to put up amazing numbers. Kubiak even got something out of Griese and Plummer in limited exposure to them.
TJ Yates deep ball:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wV-u6Vnr7o
Matt Schaub deep ball at 1:16, 1:35, 3:00, 3:18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSzkqchFbhM
Yates also has the quickest release ever recorded since Dan Marino.
Given an entire off-season working with the staff as well as running the first team through OTAs while Schaub was heeling should benefit him immensely. Btw- hes also already won a playoff game and also would have won one on the road in Baltimore had it not been for Jacoby Jones muffing the put and giving Baltimore 7 free points in such a close game. He was playing from behind and forced to pass when he made each of his mistakes.
If you had Foster and Tate behind that offensive line running the bootleg system he employs you could be a pretty successful QB as well.
Johnson and Walter need to stay healthy come playoff time. They have a lot of talent behind them but you don't want guys playing in their first year having to make big contributions in the playoffs. Daniels is having his first full off-season in years and he and Casey will be a bigger part of the offense this year. BTW this is where Bellicheck got his ideas to use TEs more.
Defensively, they're set. They added a guy who should have been a first round pick prior to injury on the line and have some young guys that could make a pretty big impact if they got the opportunity to at LB and CB (Braman, Harris, Carmichael). They added a physical specimen to their 3-man OLB rush package in the first round, signed a cheaper version of Demeco Ryans to run the defense while Cushing can go back to playing instinctively and will have a DPOY type season. Jonathan Joseph was a Pro-Bowl corner last year and both Manning and Quinn have Pro-Bowl potential at the safety spots.