If it wasn't for Texans joining the league that season..

[Gazi]

..would we have picked David Carr with the 1st pick? Be careful what you wish for.

[Sandy Claws]

..would we have picked David Carr with the 1st pick? Be careful what you wish for.

That would suck. Now we would Carr no longer on the roster rather than Peppers no longer on our roster.

[Cyberjag]

I'm fairly sure Fox and Hurney would have taken Peppers anyway. DEs with his skill set are rare enough, he was local, and Fox is a defense-first kind of guy.

[The_Cannon]

Yea I think that Julius would have been our choice if he was on the board no matter where we picked.

[scpanther22]

Who knows how David Carr would have played with a better Oline

But I still think Peppers would have been the pick.

[The_Cannon]

Its very true that Carr might have been a much better, more confident QB if he had success/good coaching/good O-Line play early on.

[Lumps]

better question, had we not got a penalty on the kickoff in the superbowl to set up new england on the 40 to end it with their scoring drive would we have won?

[smash_n_dash]

we would have

[Mother Grabber]

and just think, a couple of years ago we had them both!

oh yeah, we still sucked.

[Snake]

Carr prob would have panned out with a better team. Dude just took some crazy hits in Texas. I really felt sorry for the guy cause he was a QB punching bag there for years.

[Mother Grabber]

He would have blossomed into the next Dan Marino under the expert tutelage of Jake Delhomme.

[Chimera]

better question, had we not got a penalty on the kickoff in the superbowl to set up new england on the 40 to end it with their scoring drive would we have won?

The NFL would not have let us beat the Patriots. See the Seahawks-Steelers SuperBowl for an example.

[Chimera]

He would have blossomed into the next Dan Marino under the expert tutelage of Jake Delhomme.

...except if he were our #1 pick in 2002, why would we have picked up Delhomme in 2003? He would have been under the expert tutelage of Rodney Peete and Chris Weinke.

[Gazi]

He would have blossomed into the next Dan Marino under the expert tutelage of Jake Delhomme.

You mean Peete?