I have said this to other people, and will say it to you. We are not the laughing stock of the league. We heavily criticize our team, and the criticism is warranted. If you look at the league as a whole, there are other teams doing much worse things and in a much worse state than us. We are not the laughing stock of the league. We are doing a lot of questionable things, but so are other teams. I could name you several teams that are more of a disaster than us.
Of course there are teams worse off than the Texans. Teams would kill to get to the playoffs 4 out of 5 years. And there are bad deals made throughout the league, but no one does it with the consistency that OB does, as often as he does.
You can say you don’t mind having player X all you want, Duke Johnson for example, but giving up a 3rd for him was bat sh
it stupid.
The inability to ascertain value and constantly over- or undervalue talent will eventually cost you. Signing a backup CB to starter’s money. Never mind the elephant in the room things like JD and Nuk, the Duke, Murray, Mercilus, Nick Martin little things add up too.
As for the media, particularly national, I’ve never given 2 flying fucks what they think. But kind of strange that the antagonists, always taking the least popular side blow hards, are all on the same page with this OB BS. The Texans per se, might not be a laughing stock, but their FO certainly is.