Extend Clowney Trade JJ Watt. I know I’ll likely get attacked by fanboys but you can have two $100 million players on the same side of the ball. Gives you very little room to make roster moves. Along with the fact that he has had three injury plagued season with last two being cut real short. And I fully believe in getting rid of player a year or two early. Sign best tackle you can find on the market. Texans OL was just awful outside Martin (injury prone) and Mancz. They will also need a new G via free agency. Cut Cushing, Joseph and Jackson Find a shutdown CB and a safety via free agency.
The thing is that having Watson on a rookie deal allows for money to be spent elsewhere. I'm not sure, but shouldn't Watt's contract expire around the time Watson's contract expires? Therefore we can allow for Watt to be on the roster because there's no way the team cuts him with so much cap space. Cushing is likely cut so they puts the team at ~ 67 mil in cap room but I have a feeling they'll extend McKinney's contract with the cap savings. Joseph is a fa so you can't cut him, but I think he comes back on a 1 yr deal to be a veteran presence in the secondary.
1. Sign Pro Bowl OTs. 2. Sign Pro Bowl OGs. 3. Sign a Pro Bowl Safety and Cornerbacks. 4. Draft future Pro Bowlers 5. Fire Rick Smith.
You make a hugely important point. Watson has an inordinate influence on other players around the league. They think he is the next big thing, and so do I.
Too bad Mcnair is still the owner and our coach just got an extension for being a sorry coach...oh wait they brought back someone as the GM who'd been here before because loyalty is everything with this organization
You realize that Bill Obrien has only had one legit Qb in Watson and they were GREAT together. Bill is a good coach
He is not the GM and obviously Rick Smith and Bill weren't on the same page. You seen what he did with Watson, we had the number one offense.
You cant put that record in Watson's shoulders only, the defense lost vs Seattle, and O'Brien lost against NE, for running with Lamar Miller straight to the defensive line, then against KC, Watt and Mercilus got injured in the same drive in the 1st quarter. Also during that 5 game span, the texans were averaging 30+ pts per game, that was the great part of Deshaun Watson.
The post was about the coach not the QB. Watson was great. O'Brien? If a coach is directly responsible for wins and losses, then he was just meh for the first seven games with Deshaun.
ok sorry, didnt read all the thread, but I get your point now. yep, then my post about poor game management applies to bad, and just meh
Defense is great, offense is terrible: "BOB is terrible, just riding the defense's coat tails" Defense is terrible, offense is great: "BOB is still a terrible coach!" You ultra anti-BOB people will construe everything to go against BOB. He shouldn't have relied on the defense so much, but it's not directly his fault Vrabrel was a terrible defensive play caller.
He is the head coach. And is responsible for the whole team. Vrabel was on his staff. He put him there. Yes he finally got the offense going, im pleased about that. He just needs to put it all together. "At least the offense was great" is a cheap consolation prize if they ended up with an 8-8 record with a full Deshaun season. In comparison, Shanahan had a really good offense with Jimmy G AND they won all their games together.
