Texans acquire Laremy Tunsil

They still have Tua as QB. They will be using those 1st on a QB soon enough.

 

Is that good? Not familiar with any of these guys except for Tyreek.

 

In fairness no one could have forecasted the eventual returns Miami would get from that Tunsil trade. That being said, **** BOB, always and forever.

 

I thought the trade was a necessity, but only b/c the oline got fked by BoB in the first place.

 

All that capital and the Dolphins' O-Line is still ****. It is not just about the picks, it is what you do with them. The Texans O-Line will be better than Dolphins' Line this season.

 

BoB getting laughed at and mocked by other GMs after making a deal with him. How embarrassing.

None of this would have happened if we had just paid Duane Brown.

 

If Tunsil is the LT for the next 8 years it might not be as bad as it gets made out to be.

 

The Tunsil trade came at a time when we thought we were a couple of pieces away from contending. We had a huge lead on Kansas City in Arrowhead in the playoffs, before blowing it in classic Houston Oilers fashion. We had won the AFC South 4 out of the last 5 years. The fan base was irate that Watson wasn't getting the O-line protection that he needed. Dwayne Brown threw a childish tantrum and wouldn't play for the Texans anymore and all of a sudden we had a catastrophe on the o-line. We were desperate for relief, which is why we made the Tunsil trade. We thought we were in our championship window. What we didn't know at the time was that our quarterback was out brandishing his peepee to young masseuses across the region and about to destroy all of our progress.

 

The Tunsil trade was only wrong because BOB was never going to take us anywhere as a coach, and certainly nowhere as a GM. Giving a crappy coach and complete n00b of a GM the credit card to go on a spending spree like that was the real sin.

Everybody got stars in their eyes after that 9 game win streak in 2018, when in reality we were average at best. Getting manhandled by a middling Colts team in the playoffs (making it 2 home losses to them in the final 5 weeks of the year) should have told the tale.

Even after trading for Tunsil the next year we performed basically 100% the same. Beat up on a bunch of weak teams, barely stumbled by a slightly above average team in the wildcard round, and got wrecked by a good team in the divisional round.

Your post kinda makes the timeline fuzzy. Here's some clarity for onlookers:

Fall 2017: Duane Brown traded to Seattle
Fall 2019: Texans trade for Laremy Tunsil
January 2020: Texans blow giant lead to KC

 

The worst part of the Tunsil trade was not agreeing to terms on a contract extension before pulling the trigger. You just don't trade multiple first round picks for a guy in the last year of his contract without terms in place. Left the Texans with zero leverage in negotiations and they had to pay him whatever he wanted after giving up that much for him. Bad management 101.

 

It will still be a bad deal.

Tunsil is overrated.

 

What doesn't get mentioned is Trent Williams was also available. Texans could have had him at fraction of the cost

 

And, of course, they could have just kept Duane Brown.

 

The stupid move that brought it all down.

 

Not to mention trading DeAndre Hopkins for David damn Johnson. That happened before this massage bs was bought up on Watson.