Watson on that team would be scary. If they could ever stay healthy.

Miami is the obvious fit. Give them Tua and #3 and they might be dumb enough to take it.

Hell I’d throw their original 1st in there too with no hesitation.

If you are a team with even moderate talent, you have to try to get this guy. Teams like SF, DEN, MIA and WFT have to be in on this (leaving out IND bc they are in the same division).

Honestly if Patrick Mahomes never existed and we were still with Alex, I’d absolutely be down with trading 2 first rd picks, a flurry of 3rd Rd picks and even throw a player in there. I’d offer all I could.

It sure beats the alternative of never finding a QB unless you’re at the very top of the draft. History proves this.

*not counting this year

K Murray
D Jones
D Haskins
D Lock
B Mayfield
S Darnold
J Allen
J Rosen
L Jackson
M Trubisky
P Mahomes
D Watson
J Goff
C Wentz
P Lynch
J Winston
M Marriotta
B Bortles
T Bridgewater
J Manziel
D Carr
Jimmy G
EJ Manuel
G Smith
A Luck
RGIII
R Tannehill
B Weeden
C Newton
J Locker
B Gabbert
C Ponder
A Dalton
S Bradford
T Tebow
M Stafford
M Sanchez
J Freeman

Stafford, Mahomes, Watson, Murray, Luck and Allen. 6 guys you can truly win a SB with available since 2009 and 4 of them were taken in the top 7 picks bc the Bears ****ed up royally in 2017.

Picks don’t matter as much as people say if you don’t have a QB. We’ve been there for decades.

So yeah I’d give up a shit load of high draft picks if I was a team that needed a QB.

Just reread my post. I should clarify it.

4 first round picks with 2 this year & 2 next year.

If not possible, then I’d get the choice of 2 first round picks in 2021 & 3 players of my choice off your active roster.

Nothing less than that.

They're not going to fire Easterby. He was ordained by God to lead the Texans to the promised land.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If Watson became available via trade, the Jets should call. You could trade 2nd pick this year (they still have 23rd pick), 1st in 2022 (They have 2) &amp; 1st in 2023. That’s 3 first round picks. They could pickup extra pick/picks if they traded Sam. (My gift to sports radio)</p>&mdash; Daniel Jeremiah (@MoveTheSticks) <a href="https://twitter.com/MoveTheSticks/status/1350879527556157440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I’d need more than that.

I’d want both their 1st rounders this year & both next year.

1 of them being so high does make that a good option.

Could easily see Easterby and Caserio making this trade knowing that Tua is both a Flores and Saban product. The tree is strong with this qb.

He really should try to go to the NFC. There are tons of young QBs in the AFC. The NFC is a retirement home.

If the Niners somehow get him. Good god.

The Washington Football Club should trade the farm for him.

this puts houston in the dumps for another 3 years

Sure you want that. But the fact is if the situation is irreconcilable and he has to go you take the best offer.

Patricia Mahomes in 2043 is already signed, sorry

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Texans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Texans</a> are set to do a virtual interview with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chiefs</a> OC Eric Bieniemy today, source said. Thanks to the NFL and KC allowing it, Houston doesn’t have to wait until after the playoffs.</p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1351202691557584896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

JFC, dumpster fire...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’m hearing there is a march planned on my behalf in Houston today. Although I am humbled I ask that whoever is organizing the march cancel for the sake of public safety. Covid is spreading at a high rate &amp; I don’t want any fans to unnecessarily expose themselves to infection.</p>&mdash; Deshaun Watson (@deshaunwatson) <a href="https://twitter.com/deshaunwatson/status/1351209917080854537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

LMAO He's humbled by it. Won't even say he disagrees with the reasons for it. He's checked out of Houston.

That's a game changer. They don't have to wallow in their own mess for another week before they can talk to EB. They have to fix this with Watson. ASAP. If they can hire his preferred coach they'll do it and pray (heh) that it makes him happy.

I bet EB is the Texans coach by the end of the week-if not before.

I don’t think Watson is upset with Caserio, it’s thats Easterby guy

He's mad about the whole situation. He was promised something and the ****tard owner went back on his word. I dont blame him for being pissed.

I think hiring the coach he wants is the only way to fix things.

The last thing I read said he doesn't care about Easterby or the HC now, he has a problem with Cal McNair and Cal McNair would have to fire himself to make Watson happy.

I read something similar. I still believe that IF they hire the guy he wanted all along as coach (EB) and IF that coach can convince him things are different, then he'll stick it out.

He's been there all this time and just got paid. If they shows him its a new day from the BOB era then I think Watson will give them another chance.

I dont know if he is a "brand" guy, but its a terrible look if they hire the coach he wants and he still forces a trade.

Except that the GM Easterby hired was the guy BOB tried to hire. Houston almost did too but were busted for tampering. Houston can fire Easterby easily but they're stuck with Caserio.

If Bienemy takes that job it's obvious he is a trash candidate.

Ridiculous assertion.

Bullshit. That organization is a disaster. No good candidate should even think about that job.

Deshaun Watson means you can turn that thing into a winner pretty quickly. The organization is a disaster, but you're starting with the most important piece: a Top 5 QB.

Have you not been paying attention to what's been going on there?

Here is the problem with the Texans. When Easterby came onboard, soon GM Brian Gaine was fired for an undisclosed HR issue. They had the tampering with Caserio after it. So, they go into a season without a GM, with O'Brien as the basically GM and Easterby assisting. That's where the problems really started. Easterby should not have been anywhere near the Football personnel side. He did things that fostered distrust and were CREEPY. When BoB got fired, things got worse because he was acting GM. Yes, Easterby basically got McNair to hire Caserio to protect his job (it was seriously in jeopardy). Caserio is respected and qualified. He was not the issue, the process was. Now it is up to Caserio to calm things down....push Easterby out of the spotlight and keep Cal McNair from talking...LOL.

Hiring Eric B. will help with Watson. Caserio and Eric B. can work on the football side to rebuild the trust in the team with the players and fanbase (who are ready to storm NRG like Trumpers and the Capital...LOL.

McNair does not like the spotlight, so getting out of it is easy. Easterby is also like a cockroach.....doesn't like the light. He would deal with administrative stuff of the football stuff. People want him gone, but until then, you keep him away from the on field stuff.

ESPN and FoxSports have both been running the story that Watson has probably played his last game in HOU all day now.

That laremy tunsil trade has turned out to be an absolute disaster. The rebuild is likely delayed a couple years because of that.

That and the Hopkins trade. It's amazing how much BOB ruined that team.

Houston has tested positive for Patriot castoffs. Unfortunately it's almost always fatal.

I don't think getting out of this is at all easy. Houston can get rid of Easterby but you can't easily get rid of Caserio this soon. And Caserio is associated with both Easterby and BOB. Not to mention he's a byproduct of the patriot way I'm guessing Watson resents by now.

I mean, I guess you could neuter Caserio the way Arthur blank did to Dimitroff. But that's it ideal. And I'm sure Watson sees through any pandering.

A head coaching job is a head coaching job. There's only 32 available and he sure isn't getting ours. If he talks Watson into staying ( the only way he gets the job) then he gets to work with the 2nd or 3rd best young QB in the league.

Who would you take over him besides #15 and maybe Josh Allen that's under 26? Not Herbert-he needs to prove it another yr (same can be said about Allen really) Not Kyler. Not Lamar. Not Baker. We don't know what the rookies will look like.

The Texans are capped out and w/o picks but if you got Watson to buy in, that's a great starting point. This is all based on the ****ery from the ownership and Easterby stops btw

I think we’re all operating under the assumption that if Bieniemy takes the job Watson will be happy and no longer asking for a trade.

As long as McNair is the owner the Texans are screwed. Tommy Boy won’t fire his boi Easterby.

I can’t recall a previous NFL team publicly confirming who they have interviewed for their HC vacancy... talk about unprofessional.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Houston Texans have completed interviews with Matt Eberflus, Leslie Frazier, David Culley and Eric Bieniemy for the position of Head Coach.</p>&mdash; Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) <a href="https://twitter.com/HoustonTexans/status/1351341182203342849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

WTF moment of the day from the Texans...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Houston Texans have continued discussions about the vacant Head Coach position with Jim Caldwell and Josh McCown.</p>&mdash; Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) <a href="https://twitter.com/HoustonTexans/status/1352727967785492487?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Absolutely wrong unless you're willing to sell every last ounce of integrity and dignity you have left for a HC job.

Hopefully EB has more self respect than that.

Josh McClown?? Wtf???

McCown is a current back-up on the Texans squad. My working theory is that he has given Watson some good advice here and there and so Watson told ownership to make him the coach.

Doesn't necessarily mean that they won't continue with EB. EB is busy.

McCown is actually under contract to the Texans next year. This has to be a first for an active NFL player to get a head coaching interview

Matt Eberflus is currently the front runner according to some reports.

I know this is just due to crappy tape quality (lol... the fact that it's even a tape) but it's a good illustration of how ****ing old Josh McCown is as a player.

And Brady is even ****ing older.

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I don't buy that considering McCown is Easterby’s golden boy. And Watson seems to despise Easterby. What might littlefinger have up his sleeve. I wonder if it's Easterby’s way of hiring his own stooge to keep himself in power and grow his power. But unlike other stooges he thinks he can sell this to Deshaun because they know each other. He's probably very wrong. But all he has to do is convince his puppet McNair.

I'd bet way more on this being Easterby’s power play than having anything to do with Watson, who can't possibly be stupid enough to suggest this.

Just connecting some dots. All this talk about spying on players and staff, massive mistrust... Seem eerily similar to the Pioli fiasco in kc. We didn't hear about this with Pioli Dimitroff in atl. We haven't heard this extreme level of toxic culture in the many patriot way experiments. Is it possible Easterby was the brainchild behind a lot of the kc cultural mess? Pretty interesting that the only 2 teams other than the Pats he's worked with burned to the ground in almost the same way.

Josh McCown over EB? ROFL

Don't you ever try to make excuses for that mother****er Scott Pioli, even by proxy. His soul is pig shit.

Oh yeah, he birthed and groomed this shitdick. It was Piolis idea to implement this stupid patriot way. I just wonder if in Easterby you have the most maniacal implementer of the patriot way possible.

That's like wondering if Himmler was actually more evil than Hitler

So Easterby is the Rudolf Hoss of the Patriots. Interesting.

How exactly is that stooge qualified to have that much power for an NFL team?

Divine ordination. ROFL

LMAOROFLLMAOROFLLMAO Deshaun Watson's #1 organization to play for right now according to the Miami Herald is..... THE NEW YORK JETS!!!!!

He'd rather go there to die than play out his career in Houston. LMAO

The Jets are a way more functional place than Houston. They have draft picks, a coach that DeShaun will surely like and they’ll have structure.

Their GM has done a decent job so far

They are probably going to have to give up many of those draft picks in any potential trade to get Watson.

And Saleh is a first time HC with a defensive background... seems like a big risk for Watson to jump into an unknown situation like that.

Wut. He just had a career year with Romeo Crennel most of the season, no DeAndre Hopkins and Will Fuller missing a month.

Yea the appeal of the Jets current situation is all of the draft picks. Their roster isn’t quite ready for a move like that.

Basically the Jets who have proven nothing over a patriot way guy in Flores.

I am not doubting Watson couldn't have individual success with the Jets, in terms of his stats, but if his long term plan is to win (which he obviously did NOT do in the 2020 Texans example you listed above), then the Jets are a very risky/unknown situation.

But he'd have a really solid OC in Lafleur. That system would be really interesting with a qb like Watson. And he's gotta like having a lot of foundational offense talent like mims, perine, Becton and an absurd amount of cap space for more weapons. Seems like a great situation.

As someone else said, I can't imagine a good reason for Watson to jump into another patriot way regime in Miami after what he just went through.

...That is, until Lafleur leaves to get his own job.

How's Deshaun gonna do if Saleh brings in an Old Man Muir? I mean, probably just fine, but he's not gonna throw a stink about the management issues and all that just to move to a team that gives him "just fine"

It took the Seahawks 8 seasons to give Russel Wilson a top 20 WR. And no, Tyler Lockett and Doug Baldwin aren't top 10 WRs. He's never had a top 5 TE. And rarely ever has he had a top 15 OL.

What if that's what the Jets are like?

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As @mortreport reported on ESPN’s Postseason NFL Countdown, the Texans' head coaching hire is not expected to change Deshaun Watson's thinking. He still is expected to want out of Houston, no matter who the head coach is, per sources.

That would be funny if Detroit/Houston did a straight up Watson/Stafford trade.

I think if he wins a Super Bowl and almost wins a second, it'd be fine, but that's just me.

This was my thoughts all along since the story broke.

As long as the McNairs and the Easterbys are in charge, it doesn’t matter who’s head coach and he wants out.

Wonder if Watt wants out too.

Wanna come get a ring, dude?

Jets seem like a good place to go. Enough cap space/new QB to encourage free agents to go there.

Do the Jets trade the #2 overall pick plus Darnold to acquire him? Maybe more picks? Still leaves them with some draft capitol to add some talent.

For the Texans they could trade the #2 and recoup some picks that can help them start to rebuild. Trade Watt as well. They'd get some cap relief this year. By next year they would have plenty of cap space and some more picks to build the team. It's rebuild time in Houston.