Losing a football team once seemed to have changed a lot people. The new franchise smell is gone, we shouldn't have to continue to settle for mediocrity or incompetence. And yet fans will still continue to sellout the stadium and the FO won't change.
Man it would've been interesting if Dabo Swinney got the job at Jacksonville instead of Urban Meyer. He could have had the option of drafting Lawrence or trading for Watson.
Oh he b****ed real hard after the NFC loss. Did you miss his press conference? There’s also a chance he may be out too!
Thats just how you guys with the battle red blinders on want to take it - looking to be offended by his desire to respect the people who he works for. What about his character is in question? Has he slapped around a woman? Has he gotten popped for PEDs or illicit substances? Has he publicly lambasted the team and players? You want a good little boy who will be quiet, agree to whatever the boss says, not give any input and just throw the ball. Life is more complicated than that.
The goal is not to get him to want to be here at this point. The goal is to not set a precedent that any recently signed player can seemingly jettison themselves... without any repercussions whatsoever. Sure, he has his money... but legacy can be immediately impacted with just one missed year. The Texans should not trade him for worthless value.... which will be tough due to his no-trade clause. Watson deserves to be angry, deserves to want to be elsewhere, the Texans own every bit of this with their incompetence... but all teams (not just the Texans) need to be careful with just blind acceptance of a demand such as this.
Well, he didn't have much desire to respect the people that stroked him a $27 million signing bonus check... now did he? He cashed that check, right? Oops. But when it comes to leading his team back to respectability? Nah, too tall of a task for Watson. No patience, no perseverance, no strength of character. Took the easy way out and bailed. Now the fans suffer.
I think what I have learned from the harden situation is that you don't drag this out. Let the new coach and gm talk to him and if they can't get him to change his mind then you trade him. I may be wrong in my thinking but when a players asks to be traded, they are rejecting the org AND the city. I am not going to beg someone to let me cheer them on. You don't want this, that is your right but then it's my right to not want you. If you don't want to be here then peace out homes. Let me know when the trade goes through so I can unfollow you.
Maybe, but you seem to be operating under the assumption that the team and player both have roughly the same amount of leverage in these situations. I'm not really sure they do. If you're the player and you're so determined not to play for a team that you're willing to sacrifice game checks, then you're willing to sacrifice your salary already to do so. If you're the team, you can sit the player and fine him, but every week you do so, you push the player further away from the franchise and you lose more value in a potential trade for that player. Eventually the player wins in these scenarios more often than the team does. And the more high profile the player in professional sports, the more leverage that player seems to have. Look, I'm still holding out hope that cooler heads will prevail here and we won't come to Watson sitting out games. There's still time this offseason for the two sides to reconcile their differences and fix this thing, regardless of what's being said in the media. But given what we just witnessed with the Rockets a few weeks ago and the history of how these situations typically pan out, that keeps feeling less and less likely. I just feel like Watson is getting let off the hook completely here despite being a bit of a prima donna. He's pissed because of how the GM and coach hiring panned out, which is fine, but he witnessed so much incompetence leading up to this offseason. He knew what he was getting into five months ago, and he clearly had no issues with it then...
Jets really ****ed themselves with not getting that #1 draft pick this year. They could easily have an all world qb already.
I would take Tilman as the owner of the Texans 10/10 times. He's better than almost any other NFL owner. Sadly, he owns an NBA team where there are some actual decently ran teams.
I think tilman is cheap not stupid. Cal just seems like a dumbass. I don’t know which is worse but they’re both bad.
Looks like they ****ed us too. Would’ve been the front runners by a long shot. Now it looks like Miami.
So your point is that as long as you are being payed by a company you are to sit idly by and accept poor management and incomptence when you could be working somewhere else for people who are more aligned with your vision of success. You think Watson was only going to make the money he made here? "Lead the team back to respectability" LOLLLLL --- WHEN!? In 10 years??
