At this point it doesn't matter what we think of Watson's style. We will not get to see Watson in a Texans' uniform with this current coaching staff.
I understand that most fans of any sport tend to over rate players on their favorite team. For example, if a Spurs fan tell me Tim Duncan is greater than Hakeem, those are fighting words. However, whether it was vocal minority of "Watson Only Fans" or "the anyone but Watson" crew, he became a polarizing player on this forum.
Maybe the chirping from the vocal extremes forced us to take sides and we lost the perspective on a talented, young player. However, if we can all agree that O'Brien was not a good OC. He ran a unimaginative, complicated system that was hard on young QBs and WRs that led to inconsistent play and he struggled identifying personnel for his scheme. If we know all of these things to be true, why did we expect a 4th year QB to be perfect? No one said Watson was some generational talent. No one said he was a finished product. We can acknowledge like many young QBs, he still had holes in his game. Hell even Mahomes who landed in QB heaven has holes in his game.
It's just interesting to me that with the history of mediocre Texans QB play, we had a talented QB on the roster and instead of being excited and hoping for growth and improvement from the QB, we nit picked the hell out of his game and act like he could never meet the high standards of previous Texans QBs or veteran QBs with twice as much experience.
I understand that most fans of any sport tend to over rate players on their favorite team. For example, if a Spurs fan tell me Tim Duncan is greater than Hakeem, those are fighting words. However, whether it was vocal minority of "Watson Only Fans" or "the anyone but Watson" crew, he became a polarizing player on this forum.
Maybe the chirping from the vocal extremes forced us to take sides and we lost the perspective on a talented, young player. However, if we can all agree that O'Brien was not a good OC. He ran a unimaginative, complicated system that was hard on young QBs and WRs that led to inconsistent play and he struggled identifying personnel for his scheme. If we know all of these things to be true, why did we expect a 4th year QB to be perfect? No one said Watson was some generational talent. No one said he was a finished product. We can acknowledge like many young QBs, he still had holes in his game. Hell even Mahomes who landed in QB heaven has holes in his game.
It's just interesting to me that with the history of mediocre Texans QB play, we had a talented QB on the roster and instead of being excited and hoping for growth and improvement from the QB, we nit picked the hell out of his game and act like he could never meet the high standards of previous Texans QBs or veteran QBs with twice as much experience.