[Discuss Thrower]

Watt had more value playing the way he did on a rookie contract in Houston than he does now then he does now for the Texans. Unfortunately for the Texans, the Kubiak regime's collapse didn't happen "soon" enough and there's no way McClain couldn't justify shopping their biggest star for draft picks.

Now you look at the present and the Texans are a middling team that just parked a Brinks' truck in JJ Watt's driveway. Great player, but -as I've pointed out- that just because you've got a guy who's capable of leading the league in sacks year after year it doesn't mean you'll win when it matters in January. His contract is a big portion of their cap when the team is deficient at the position that matters the most: quarterback.

Houston went 9-7 last season and was in technically in contention for a playoff spot -albeit they'd need help- and they improved in almost every facet from their 2-14 finish the season prior.

However, those nine wins came against Washington, Oakland, Buffalo, Tennessee, Cleveland, Tennessee again, Jacksonville, Baltimore and then Jacksonville. JJ Watt and the defense beat RG3, David Carr, EJ Manuel, Zach Mettenberger, Brian Hoyer, Mettenberger, Blake Bortles, Flacco and Bortles again.

Their defense couldn't beat the teams quarterbacked by Eli Manning, Tony Romo, Andrew Luck (twice), Ben Roethlisberger, Mark Sanchez and Andy Dalton.

Five wins against rookie quarterbacks... And they couldn't beat high-level quarterbacks and lost to CP whipping boys Andy Dalton and Mark Sanchez. And this was with their franchise player JJ Watt playing an MVP caliber season.