FanHouse RexHadnot

Every Thursday, the FanHouse takes a look at the line play in one game for our weekly Between The Lines feature.

If you like upsets you had plenty to choose from this week. Between the Rams-Redskins, Cardinals-Cowboys and Browns-Giants, there were plenty of reminders of why suicide pools are so tough to win.

Among those upsets, the Browns-Giants may not have ranked as the biggest surprise, but it did bring up the question--where had this Browns team been during the first five weeks of the season?

In rewatching the Browns-Giants game, one thing was clear. If the Browns' offensive line plays like this the rest of the year and if Browns offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski keeps calling plays like he did on Monday night, they should be able to shut down the game's best pass rushes.

This hurts a little.

The Steelers brought Rex Hadnot into town last week with an eye on signing the guard/center to give the team some competition for a starting role at either center or guard. But he left without signing an offer, and there was talk that his asking price (said to be $5 million a year or so by some rumors) may make him too expensive.

Now he's signed with the Browns at the oh-so-reasonable two-years, $7 million. Yes, it may say something that a $3.5 million a year deal is reasonable, but in this market it is--and it's less than the total money of the deal the Steelers gave Sean Mahan last year. In looking at Hadnot last week in action, it was pretty apparent that he's nothing special, but he is a bigger and stronger lineman than Sean Mahan, and he would have given the Steelers some more flexibility on the line.

First I want to say thank you to the Houston Texans website staff for being blog-friendly and fixing their embeds so they don't autoplay. The above HoustonTexans.com video is of Texans secondary coach, Jon Hoke talking about the secondary players in this year's draft, and what the Texans are looking for when scouting free agents and potential draft picks. If you just want to read the interview, check out this link.

Reports say that the Texans are looking in free agency at Dallas CB Jacques Reeves and Dolphins Rex Hadnot as a center/guard. I don't believe taking Reeves would preclude getting a cornerback in the draft because the Texans need tons of secondary help.

As FanHouser Ryan Wilson told you last week, the Miami Dolphins kicked Keith Traylor off the team over a fight on the team plane. The fight led to an all-out argument with head coach Cam Cameron who then banished him from the team (he was on the roster for the last game of the season).

Now we know what the fight was all about: dominoes:

Last week's argument on the team plane that led to Keith Traylor's banishment began over a game of dominoes, with Vernon Carey and Rex Hadnot ribbing Traylor (and vice versa) before tempers flared. Carey and Hadnot sat down when Cameron asked them to, but Traylor initially refused. Some players were amused when they heard Traylor yelling and cursing in a meeting with Cameron the next day.

To steal a quote from Ryan: 'This seems like a fitting end to a one-win campaign." It was a game of dominoes that started this mess. Imagine if they were playing Hungry Hungry Hippos! It would've gotten out of hand!

Now, Traylor was probably done as a Dolphin anyways - Bill Parcells most likely would've purged him. But this looks bad for Cameron. Not only does he have to act like daddy on the team plane by telling the kids to sit down and shut up on a trip ... but the fact that the players were laughing about the whole thing doesn't say much for his credibility.

Cam. The Tuna needs to see you. And bring your playbook.