You have to understand that the Hopkins trade had nothing at all to do with talent or money.
It was done because he was a "bad influence" and that decision was made by Janice who capitulated to the demands of an individual who isn't even part of the team.
Obviously more people know about this than I previously thought as someone here hinted at it and I asked them privately and confirmed my suspicions
It really makes me wonder why the media hasn't broken the story. The media continues to run with the "its OB's fault" narrative .... rather than outing Mother Goose and the front office for their bush league way of doing business.
Egos, man. That's what a lot this comes down to. The over-inflated egos of very wealthy people. And it's this kind of meddling that makes it extremely difficult to have any kind of long-term confidence that they could ever stop tripping over their own feet to field a championship caliber team.
And when you look at the careers of the successful head coaches in NFL history, it is rare that any of them tolerate the proactive meddling of owners. Jimmy Johnson built a championship team and won two SBs, and quit in the middle of it because of owner ego. Then you look at guys like Belichick, Walsh, Landry, Noll, etc., and they all won multiple championships with owners that hired them and then got the **** out of their ways.
Schaub really did take a beating around here .... It wasn't until after he was gone and we suffered thru some really bad QB's that we realized how good he really was - He was unfortunate that he had to face two of the best ever so many times.
Schaub's misfortune was bad timing. He had some great weapons, but the defense was consistently bad. And once they hired Wade and brought the defense around, Schaub was broken.
I always appreciated him (until he became a pick 6 machine, of course), simply because we had lived through five years of HWSNBN and his poser BS. That was a fun offense to watch with Andre Johnson, Arian Foster, and Owen Daniels. Also had the best offensive line this franchise has ever had, too.