BILL OBRIENS NOT LOOKING FOR TOO MUCHJUST ANOTHER TOM BRADY. Just kidding. Hes not. But what the new Texans coach wants in whoever is under center for him in 2014 (it wont be Matt Schaub, if the rest of the organization has anything to do with it) is someone who, like Brady, has a passion for football that equals OBriens. Id be getting texts, calls from Tom on Wednesday night about the third-down package, OBrien told me. Thursday night Id be hearing from him 9 oclock, 10 oclock about red-zone plays. Obviously, hes talented, but Tom never stopped thinking about football. When you coach Tom Brady, youre not coaching with him; youre a partner in the offense with him. Thats the ideal for a quarterbacksomeone who cares about it as much as you do. OBrien found that in Matt McGloin at Penn State in his first year there, and its why he went to the mat with NFL teams, stridently insisting to them last spring they should give McGloin a shot in training camp. The Raiders did, and McGloin ended up playing seven games for Oakland, outperforming Terrelle Pryor. The big question for OBrien: Is Teddy Bridgewater that guy with the No. 1 pick? Is Blake Bortles (288 passing yards, three touchdowns, 74 percent completions in a Sept. 14 Central Florida win at Penn State) the guy after a trade down? Or Johnny Manziel, or Tajh Boyd, or Derek Carr? OBrien will find out soon enough. I just got in the building, he said. There are so many scenarios. We draft a quarterback there, we trade the pick to someone wholl give us a lot for it, or we take another position. Lots of time to figure that out. The draft is four months from tomorrow. OBrien will be sick of the over-analysis by then.
