I disagree, there are enough assets to build the team with smart picks around a player of Watson’s caliber. Only time will tell.
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Last off-season was brutal. Everyone and their mother’s knew this season would end with Gase being fired, it really didn’t matter what we did.
This website never dies down, they die slowly, day after day, commencing with the first game of every new season. Here is to a 2021 resurrection.
You're drastically discounting the fact that the Texans have mismanaged their salary cap situation in the worst possible way. $30 million tied into linebackers. $35 million into the worst offensive line in the league. An additional $21 million in aging and declining skill position players in Cooks/Johnson. If we added Watson, we have a relatively clean slate with a full stock of draft picks after this year. The extra Jamal Adams capital makes that possible.
Why are folks here emphatically stating this team can not afford to loose draft picks for a PROVEN FQB without actually knowing what it will take to pull the deal? The Texans have their backs against the wall, because Deshaun controls the trade clause. So if he is willing to go to the Jets, then using both Adams picks could seal the deal. Who knows? So you are basically trading Adams for a proven dream QB. I don’t know the answer, but never say never, if JD sees value for this team, he might at least make a play for it. If it’s culture change what Watson is looking for, we are right up his alley.
We're a bad roster right now. We need the extra picks this year and next to rebuild the team. Trading a bunch of them for Watson just makes us a bad team with Deshaun Watson. We'd have to get very lucky with our normal picks to rebuild fast enough to take advantage of Watson. Then we'd also face the possibility that Watson gets hurt again, maybe losing his mobility in the process and just leaves us the same bad team we were before we acquired him. I get that solving the QB problem in one fell swoop seems really attractive but if we do it in a way that we can't solve the myriad other problems we have also then the addition is not so attractive. If for some reason the Watson addition fails in other ways - well that would be just so Same Old Jets wouldn't it? The Jets have brought in lots of high-priced free agents in the last decade and we're still the Same Old Jets. It's time to try something new - actually building a championship caliber team via the draft the way all the successful teams do.
Depends. Ideally it would a first in each of the next 3 years, that still gives you plenty of capital. They would have drafted a QB anyway. Might have to be 2 this year, but people need to stop getting hung up on the money. He would be a financial steal because the Texans already paid his signing bonus.
A bad team with tons of capital to improve the roster in terms of cap space and draft picks along with a top 5 quarterback. It's not like this so the 2010 Jets with back loaded contracts galore and no upcoming draft picks or cap space.
