Looking ahead... Watson is eligible for his massive extension this offseason in the neighborhood of 5 years, $175 million. Tunsil will also get an extension after making first team All-Pro. 5 years, $90 million. Merciless already signed his extension 4 years, $54 million. Fuller's will be in his 5th year option at $10 million. Free agent in 2021. That will basically use up all of the projected $60 million in cap space for 2020. Next up the Draft... No first round picks in 2020 and 2021, and no second round pick in 2021. All owed to Miami. Future development and potential of Tytus Howard and Max Scharping still unclear. Free Agency... After surrendering 41 straight points, most teams would just dismantle their secondary and start all over. Roby is a free agent and honestly shouldn't bothered. He's not shutdown CB material. Hargreaves is owed $9 million in 2020 and no dead cap. He should be released immediately. Gipson is owed $14 million with a $4 million dead cap, should also be released, saving $10 million. Conley is onto his 4th year of rookie contract so decision time next season. Johnson and Reid are affordable rookies contract with multiple years left so they stay. There is no path via draft or free agency to rebuild this atrocious secondary, therefore Texans will have to do with rag-tag group of young rookies and guys off the street for the foreseeable future. Objectively speaking, this team has no future. No draft picks. No cap room. No way to improve. Texans are simply going to be a mediocre team with Bill O'Brien still at the helm as coach and GM, and Watson doing his magic, which will be good enough to win 10 games a season, but nothing more because of all the glaring holes everywhere else.
Good summary. Additionally, sounds like there's no way to resign Reader so say goodbye to having a defense
I completely forgot about Reader. Sorry we can't afford him. He'll get offers of 5 years, $60 million elsewhere.
Youd have to hope JJ generously offers to restructure his contract but i am not sure that even helps t Your #s may be off? Watson and Tunsil extensions wouldnt hit until 2021? And if they cut Hargreaves, Fulton and Selemente (which they assuredly will do), then their cap room should go up to $80 mil.
Watson extension wouldn’t kick in until the 2022. The new CBA may change how QB’s are counted to the cap.
Oh yeah defense is about fall off a cliff in the coming years. Texans will have spent 6 straight first round picks on offense from 2016 to 2021. The picks prior to that -- Kevin Johnson and Jadaveon Clowney -- are no longer with the team. That's why you hire a longterm GM and let him run the team, not your head coach. BOB's entire tenure has been about prioritizing and building his offense first at the expense of everything else. Just look around the NFL for the difference. Another offensive guru Kyle Shanahan and his GM John Lynch both chose to build a Super Bowl defensive line first. They understood how much pressure it can take off a franchise QB when the defense can simply dominate the game. Jimmy G can afford to have pedestrian games and do enough to win. Watson does not have that luxury.
As other have said, with the extension, we'll have cap still. I'm alright we resigning Roby. We need pass rushers and this secondary would be just fine. We should have the cap space to front load some deals on Roby, Reader, and another good free agent. My targets would be pass rushers. That's the reason the secondary looks so bad. I'd go after Yannick Ngakoue. The line will be better. The secondary will improve of we improve the pass rush. Martin should only get better. We need another pass rusher, for the last time. And a new coaching staff.
Well, we do have draft picks. We just don’t have first rounders the next two years, and no second rounder next year. Yes, that hurts. But good players can sometimes be found in the mid or late rounds. Maybe we can hit on some of those picks. But, I hear what you are saying. It will be tough to find good players that can make an immediate impact.
Spent so much on offense, yet oline is still sht, offense is still sht. Goes to show how good of an Offense Guru BoB is.
So McClain is basically saying that ownership is too cheap to make a move critical to the franchise’s future.
1. Numbers were taken from spotrac.com and their projections including contracts and market values. 2. Cap hits on extensions will most definitely start in 2020. That's how teams structure contracts with signing bonus. For example, Watson's 4th year on rookie contract of $4.4 million salary will come with at least $30 million of added signing bonus to his cap hit. That's why the Texans have been saving all this cap the past 2 seasons because they need to smooth his cap hits over time. The Rams did the same thing with Goff by adding $25 million signing bonus to his 4th year salary. Eagles did the same with Wentz, adding $16 million to his 4th year. That's how this works. 3. The rumored CBA changes for QBs are not written yet and who knows what will come of it. Most likely Mahomes and Watson take their huge guaranteed paydays and signing bonuses up front before the possibility of work stoppage.
Jerome Solomon just put an article out for the Chron saying O'Brien should resign and leave town. It's about the most scathing local article I've ever seen from a local news source. Good for him!
Basically, even if BoB is fired tomorrow morning and we find a replacement coach immediately, they're probably not going to take us to where we want to go even in the next 2-3 years.
he has another tweet that basically says there’s no way he is fired. of course it’s McLain so more than likely he is fired based off that tweet lol.
