Fuller is a perfect storm. You can’t franchise that guy, but if you don’t you’re almost certainly going to lose him. So now Deshaun has even less to work with here than he did before. That’s not ideal!
Doesn’t matter Brian. Drafted the B-E-S-T players for the T-E-A-M Brian. https://www.nfl.com/news/2020-nfl-rookie-report-card-ranking-each-team-s-class-1-to-32 Rank: 31 Houston Texans Class grade: D- Round 2 (40) Ross Blacklock, DT, 15 games/1 start Round 3 (90) Jonathan Greenard, DE, 13 games/1 start Round 4 (126) Charlie Heck, OT, 3 games/1 start (141) John Reid, CB, 13 games/1 start Round 5 (171) Isaiah Coulter, WR, 1 game Unfortunately, at this point, the best thing to come out of Bill O'Brien's one and only draft as Texans general manager is his Zoom room explosion, which reportedly spawned from the Lions backing out of a trade. The virtual draft produced a cornucopia of viral moments, but in hindsight, nothing captured the state of a franchise better than O'Brien blowing up and storming off. In a disastrous, dysfunctional year for Texans football, the rookie class contributed next to nothing. Granted, the group was significantly downsized by O'Brien's curious wheeling and dealing -- related story: BOB was relieved of his general manager and head coach duties just four weeks into the 2020 season -- but the five newbies combined to play just 847 snaps in 2020. Unsurprisingly, that was the lowest total for a rookie class in 2020, per Pro Football Focus, and about a third of the NFL-wide average of 2,555 snaps. The Texans' first four picks started one game apiece, while Blacklock and Greenard were the only rookies to eclipse 150 total snaps. What exactly did Blacklock and Greenard contribute? A grand total of five QB hits, one sack and one ejection (courtesy of a Blacklock punch in Week 2). Not ideal. And further devaluation of the Texans' defensive front, which has gone from a massive strength to a crippling weakness in just a few years' time.
Rebuild. You guys keep using that word. But there won't be a rebuild until the culture of distrust, using the 2013 chiefs term for it, is completely eradicated. Don't let personal dislike for "the player"(#4) block what should be common sense. This is not normal for a franchise to operate in holy manifest destiny while doing the exact opposite of 'culture'. And all players and agents talk, more and more like the nba every day.
Cal's not going anywhere, so the only thing they can do is bring in new players and build trust from there. As long as Watson is in Houston the team will be fractured because of what you're talking about. In fact it probably already has been fractured since 51-7. Clean house and move on, not getting rid of JE in the housecleaning is a mistake IMHO, but no amount of whining in the world is going to change this. BTW, I wonder if most of the whining is coming from the media, fan base that just hates all things Patriots? I dont have a problem with the Foxboro model that some obviously do and want to give Caserio a chance to implement his vision of the team before I pass judgement.
BOBs ineptitude as a GM needs to be memorialized somehow. The trades, running off star players, overpaying trash like Murray and terrible drafts...just a complete and total ****up all the way around. And people wonder why Watson wants to leave when the two idiots who oversaw all of it are still in charge?
I know. You can't get these guys to see this. They actually think trading Deshaun is going to lead to this glorious future. It could if you had smart football people doing smart football things. But the Texans don't. They are going to bungle this trade and everyone can see it coming. Teams a frothing waiting to screw them over AGAIN. This time for a franchise QB to boot. And it's compounded by the preacher/stand up comic they have running the show who keeps hiring his cronies for his culture. Caserio is being paid a handsome ransom to take the fall if things get worse (and good for him). But the Texans keep trying this Patriots South routine and Patriots North wasn't all that without TB12 last year. It's just sad.
Blessed be the fruit? He should have had more opportunities with how bad the 10 milly running back was in some of those games
Deshaun also liked the official announcement. Probably nothing major. But I wonder if Deshaun to jax for the #1 pick + more could be growing some legs.
