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Jerome Mathis


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With Moulds gone, does this guy have any value at all as a WR?

Right now, I'm reading where Kevin Walter is benefitting with EMoulds gone. Not JMathis. Coach Kubiak has compared Kevin Walter to Ed McCaffrey, but just needed the opportunity. He now has the opportunity. I wouldn't count Jerome Mathis out yet, but I do recall Coach Kube indicating he wasn't too enamored with JMathis yet. I don't think JMathis is in the doghouse. I think he's in the backseat for now, with KWalter riding shotgun.

 

The "unofficial" depth chart has:

 

1st string WR : Andre Johnson, Kevin Walter

2nd string WR : Jerome Mathis, David Anderson

3rd string WR : Jacoby Jones, Charlie Adams

4th string WR : Andre Davis, Harry Williams

 

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More information on Jerome Mathis, from the Houston Texans website...

 

This article seems to focus more on Andre Davis, Kevin Walter, and a bit on rookie Jacoby Jones.

 

Receivers Battle for Position

 

When the Texans released veteran Eric Moulds in the offseason, a whole new perspective opened up for the team’s group of wide receivers.

 

Pro Bowler Andre Johnson is set on one side. But a sea of receivers suddenly has a new outlook for the other starting job.

 

That was obvious to Andre’ Davis when he was deciding where to go as a free agent. Davis and returning backup Kevin Walter are the leading candidates for that job, but players like Jerome Mathis and Charlie Adams, not to mention rookie Jacoby Jones and David Anderson, all feel they have a shot at the job.

 

“This has just opened up competition and brings the best out in everyone,” Davis said. “A lot of teams have two superstars starting so a lot of guys go into camp realizing that they’re fighting for the No. 3 or 4 spot. Now there’s a lot of guys fighting for the No. 2 position so I think it’s going to make a real exciting spring and summer.”

 

The job opening especially appealed to Davis, the former Browns, Patriots and Bills player who came to Houston as a free agent this year. Davis, who co-holds the NFL record along with nine other players for the longest catch in league history with a 99-yard touchdown pass in 2004, thought a long time about where he wanted to play.

 

“I was just trying to research the teams and see what would be the best opportunity,” Davis said. “Here I saw that Eric Moulds had left and any time you see that a starter has left you know there’s an open position.”

 

But Davis knows it won’t be easy to win that spot. Among other challenges, Davis feels he has to basically forget everything he has learned in his five years in the NFL.

 

“You know guys who have been here have an upper hand on me,” Davis said. “They’ve been in the system. They know what the coaches expect. So I’m coming in kind of at a disadvantage, even though I’ve been in the league five years.

 

“Any time you go to a different team it’s always like you’re a rookie all over again. I still have to get to the point where I know what the coaches are looking for and make sure I do it exactly to their specifications and not base it off how I’ve done it elsewhere.

 

“I’ve got to reboot my whole memory and erase everything I’ve learned before to make sure I can fit into this offense and not try to act like I know everything based on other teams I’ve been on. I guess that’s the toughest part for me, erasing the experience that I have. Not all together because that’s what helps you in this league. But just trying to erase the things I’ve come to know before and really learn what the coaches are looking for so I can do what I need to do for this team.”

 

 

“This has just opened up competition and brings the best out in everyone.”Walter, who played in all 16 games for the Texans, starting one last year, doesn’t want to forget anything he learned. He impressed the coaching staff enough then that now coach Gary Kubiak wishes he had played Walter more last season.

“I think you’re looking at a player right there who has earned the right to play,” Kubiak said. “I’ve said this before, I went back and watched our film and it felt like if I had given Kevin Walter more chances to make plays we would have won a few more games.

 

“That’s what he is. He’s an overachiever, so to speak, a tremendous worker, a lot like Jason (Simmons) when I talked about the things I said about him. His teammates can count on him. He’s going to win out because of his work ethic in the long haul and that’s what we want around here.”

 

Walter is flattered by Kubiak’s praise but is taking nothing for granted.

 

“You’ve got to go out each day and get better,” Walter said. “Hopefully I can prove to coach and to everybody out here that I deserve to be the No. 2 guy and make plays and that’s what I’m trying to do.

 

“It makes me happy that he feels confidence in me doing that. But I still have to go out and prove myself and make plays and get the respect from everybody.”

 

Walter caught 17 passes for 160 yards last year and hopes many more are coming his way. He doesn’t mind taking tips from Johnson, who caught an NFL best 103 passes for 1,144 yards last year.

 

“Dre is phenomenal,” Walter said. “He’s one of the best receivers in the league. I learn from Andre and all the receivers. I take different techniques that he uses and try to apply them to me. I learned a lot.

 

“I’ve been fortunate in my career to learn from some good guys like Andre and Eric Moulds. Andre’s a class act on and off the field and he works extremely hard and I’m just working trying to be like him.”

 

Jones was a third-round pick by the Texans in the recent draft and he’s just trying to get accustomed to the NFL now.

 

“It’s been going 100 miles per hour for me so far,” Jones said. “In five days, I’ve learned 100 plays. It’s challenging. It makes you get in your playbook and study.

 

“I told my mom I wish I had used my school books the way I’ve used this playbook. I’d probably have been a 5.0 student.

 

“It’s something new for me being a rookie. Everything is new. This is what I expected. The only thing I’ve been surprised by is the linemen are fast too. The defensive linemen can really run.

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This article speaks more about Jerome Mathis, and it isn't so "rosy".

 

Healed Veterans Speak at Wednesday's OTAs

 

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Mathis on the mend: It’s been nice to see Jerome Mathis out at OTA’s the past few days. Mathis was hampered with a foot injury for most of the 2006 season and played in just a handful of games.

 

His foot is healed but Mathis says he still has some obstacles to conquer before he’s back to 100 percent.

 

“It will be a matter of time before I get back to full strength,” Mathis said. “My foot is fine. I’m just working on a couple of hamstrings now, I’ll say I’m 90, 95 percent.”

 

Though an OTA in May is not necessarily crucial to team success, Gary Kubiak thinks that the next few weeks are pretty important to Mathis.

 

“It’s critical because we’re at a point at his career where he had a great rookie season, but last year he dressed for two games for us I think and he struggled physically,” Kubiak said.

 

“He has been out here everyday, he’s practiced everyday, he had some issues with tightness today, but our football team is very competitive right now and the good thing is that our football team is going to be tough to make and I think Jerome sees that going on and it’s important that he’s out here.”

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The "unofficial" depth chart has:

 

1st string WR : Andre Johnson, Kevin Walter

2nd string WR : Jerome Mathis, David Anderson

3rd string WR : Jacoby Jones, Charlie Adams

4th string WR : Andre Davis, Harry Williams

 

:D

 

 

Methinks that Andre Johnson is looking at quite a down year. What a horrible cast of complementary receivers.

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Methinks that Andre Johnson is looking at quite a down year. What a horrible cast of complementary receivers.

 

Honestly and truthfully, EMoulds didn't do much last year to do any better. I watched him carefully last year, and he was slow. In fact, he hasn't been picked up this year, yet.

 

I know this is crap in comparison to a true NFL WR corp, but I don't see it as any different than last.

 

Andre Johnson, 2006 = 103 (tops), 1147, 5 (yuck)

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