Texans Trade For Tunsil, Stills

Not necessarily, OBrien has ****ed the teams future to the point that viable GMs will turn down the job.

He may feel that if the Texans bring in a strong GM, is fate is sealed. This keeps their options limited, and may allow him to retain some power if a weak candidate is hired

 

I'm just glad that it's their problem and not ours ...

 

They have a franchise changing QB. Any GM would take that job over one like Miami which has a ton of draft capital and no talent.

 

Yeah to suggest no GM would want the job is absurd. They may not have any worthy picks next year, and thats understandable but I dont think that would fall on his resume in his first year. You could argue that whoever their new GM is next year is in a much better position than Jon Robinson when he took over our front office few years ago...

 

Not having a GM is how you let Clowney leave for essentially NOTHING! Mainly because they waited so long to trade him (and had other suitors offering more) that once no one could sign him long term...they were gonna get nothing for him. Someone will say they got a 3rd for him, but that's gonna be where...towards the end of round 3? If Seattle can't re-sign him in the off-season, they most likely get a 3rd round comp pick back...so they get to have him kick butt in their D this year and potentially lose a few spots of 3rd round value in exchange.

I'd sign up for that!

But the utter incompetence in the handling of Clowney is unbelievable and will hurt them long term. You don't give away one of your 3 best players for nothing in their prime...it's insane. And the ONLY reason no one is talking about it...is because everyone is following the shiny object...hey we traded for a LT! Have no leverage, have no long term deal with him...and they thought Clowney was difficult?