Texans Give the Boot to 'Boys, McLane Boots Purpura, Garner

Great atmosphere at Reliant Stadium on Saturday even if it seemed like half the ways were rooting for the other guys. Like a week ago, the Texans got off early and really never let up. They're going to have the highest scoring preseason in their history by a wide margin. They actually lead the league in scoring. They have committed the 4th fewest penalties and have thrown no INTs. They have no turnovers at all, if not for Bradlee Van Pelt.

The first round of cuts were easy, next round not quite as easy, but I've got my final roster. What do you think?

QB(2) - Schaub, Rosenfels

RB(5) - Green, Dayne, Gado, Leach, Cook

WR(5) - Johnson, Walter, Jones, Mathis, Davis

TE(4) - Daniels, Putzier, Bruener, Dreesen

OL(8) - Winston, Weary,McKinney, Pitts, Salaam, Flanagan, Studdard, Black

DE(5) - Weaver, Williams, Babin, Cochran, Kalu

DT(4) - Okoye, Travis Johnson, Maddox, Zgonina

LB(7) - Ryans, Greenwood, Clark, Anderson, Barber, Orr, Diles

CB(5) - Robinson, Faggins, Fletcher, Bennett,Wynn

S(4) - Simmons, CC Brown, Hutchins, Harrison

Specialists(3) - Kris Brown, Turk, Pittman

I've got 1 spot left - who gets it? McCardell, Bethel Johnson, Jon Abbate, Scott Jackson, Brandon Frye??

----------------------------------------

Drayton finally pulled the trigger on major changes by firing GM Tim Purpura and manager Phil Garner. Not sure about timing - meaning what took so long. We all know Drayton meddles and it makes it hard, near impossible for the GM to do their job, but he didn't call Colorado and offer the best pitching prospect in the organization (not named Patton), along with a starting CF (Taveras) and a bullpen arm (Buchholz) for an injured mediocre starting pitcher (Jennings). To me that was Purpura's ultimate undoing. Not only was it a horrible, unwinnable deal on face value, but it seems obvious that he just simply didn't know Jennings was hurt and he should have.

Among the stories we discussed tonight -

- David Boston passed out in his idling vehicle. The police gave him some sobriety tests. Watch and enjoy!

- This will be hard to watch. To be kind Miss Teen South Carolina is having trouble ansering the question.

---------- WEX

FREE hit counter and Internet traffic statistics from freestats.com