So throwing away the draft capital made sense in the long run? Tunsil came in and didn't look nothing like the prized OT the team paid for.....why? Devlin was still on the scene and coaching down the rest of the talent. The prized offensive scheme also dumbed down Tunsil's potential whiile keeping the rest of the OL talent stuck in neutral or going in reverse. Has the arrival of Tunsil made the OL better? No....unfortunately, this OL had their best game when Tunsil was on the sideline. You might gather that I'm down on Tunsil.....actually I'm not. I'm down on what it paid to get him here and the OL didn't get better but appears to have regressed once again. Devlin won't go anywhere until seasons end....should've exited right along with OB which shows exactly why this FO and ownership is flat out incompetent.
Yes, if I'm in possession of the draft capital for the 2021 draft......pretty sure a LT could be been picked since it would've been a priority pick. Texans talent evaluators have been suspect at best or does it all fall on the GM's for being so bad. I still want the draft capital. Also, what's the difference in this teams 2020 record if Tunsil isn't here?
First they had their best game because Pats couldn't pressure a QB to save their life right now. Tunsil has allowed 1 sack this season and that was against a guy that is almost Watt like in his ability to get to a QB.
If you expected the Oline to magically get better just because one player was added then you have unrealistic expectations. No one player, not Brown, not Williams and not Tunsil can make an entire line good. Its just like a combat squad, you can't do the other guy's job you can only do your job and yeah Tunsil has done a damn fine job.
Also i am so sick of people having nothing to make their argumnet except hindsight. You're argument is that it would be better to have that draft capital for the new GM to use well thats a, frankly, stupid argument. When the trade was made no one had a clue, including the Texans, that it would be a new guy that would have been using those picks.
Also you are, as Tex said, assuming that those picks would be used to not only draft a LT but draft a good one. That is a lot of assuming and no history to back it up. LT was a priority when they drafted Howard, it should have been a priority right after or before drafting Watson. Multiple drafts and multiple GMs and no LT so what makes you think it would be a priority now? Particularly if the new HC wants better receivers or RBs so his scheme works better.
None of this of course answers the question of where this mythical LT was going to come from. Tunsil was absolutely worth the price, his price was right on the mark for what we paid and he has been the kind of LT that we paid for. People just don't like the trade because OB made it so they cant look at it objectively.