Not sure I agree this is destined to be a super long 76ers/Astros type rebuild like many are saying. Just look at the Jags this year or even the Bengals/Chargers recently. The key variable is hitting on your franchise QB in the draft (and other high draft picks, but QB obviously being the most important by far). The Texans have so much cap space they should have no trouble supplanting the 4 1st round picks over the next few years with veteran talent on shorter-term deals. Probably the best time for teams like this to contend and go all-in is when your young studs (particularly QB) are still on rookie deals and you have tons of cap space you may as well spend in the interim until you have to resign all of those draft picks. Basically, if we can hit on these draft picks in 2023 there is no reason not to spend big into 2024.
Wait, last offseason (or maybe the one before) I thought it was Texans OC Pep Hamilton? Isn’t that why everyone went gaga over Pep? (That Chargers staff: Steichen was OC; Pep was QB coach)
The Texans were a good DC way from that team being very good in year 2 - and they absolutely would've been in the postseason as early as 2009.
Perhaps... but still impressive enough to go from 2-14 to 8-8 in 2 years with as already mentioned, a team that was down to the studs minus a few holdovers (Andre Johnson being a big one). This isn't baseball. Successful NFL rebuilds happen in 2-3 years (or enough evidence to say its going right). Need an actual coach, good drafts and cap space. If by year 3 the team isn't on the cusp, you've failed and better start figuring out if any of your leadership is actually good at what they do.
Except most expansion franchises start with FRPs and loads of cap space. This dumpster fire organization took itself down to the seventh level of cap hell, and lack of draft capital and talent. It’s really unprecedented.
I don't see much difference between this and the last two. Maybe more twitter leaks which aren't really indicative of anything. They cast a wide net... then it all of a sudden gets narrowed to people you've never heard of, people that don't have any coaching experience, or people that are already on the staff and desperate enough to take the job (Pep Hamilton!!). Them leaking stuff is actually even less confidence inspiring. If they were confident that they'd land a prime target, they probably wouldn't need to announce it. Or they're just trying to deflect attention from all the embarrassment and bad press they deservedly deserve.
Let's be honest, if we come out of this draft with a quarterback that is sniffing the top 15 in the league in 3 years, then Watson requesting a trade might be the best thing that ever happened to this franchise.
The day that Pep Hamilton is hired as our head coach is the day that I quit being a fan officially. If that happens, omg the stadium might get burnt down. Not by me, of course. By the rioters.
