Predicting Bill O'Brien's Next 3 Disastrous Moves That Will Destroy the Texans

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is one of only two coaches in the NFL with the acting powers of a general manager. While Bill won six championships in his dual role, Houston Texans head coach Bill O'Brien has traded away several star players, including Jadeveon Clowney and DeAndre Hopkins, for paltry draft pick returns. If O'Brien continues to sabotage the Texans with these outrageous moves, including these three potential franchise-changing ones, Houston will have no choice but to fire him.

3. Not Retaining Laremy Tunsil

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O'Brien should actually be commended for getting Tunsil in the first place. While he did massively overpay for him, he picked up one of the best young tackles in the game to fix Houston's leaky offensive line. However, Tunsil is a free agent at the end of this season, and he could be just as frustrated with the constant change as quarterback Deshaun Watson is, prompting him to leave. If he does, the Texans will have traded two high draft picks for two seasons of production.

2. Trading Deshaun Watson

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As impossible as this sounds given how Watson is a franchise quarterback in every sense of the word, his cryptic tweets show that he might be getting just a tad fed up with O'Brien's desire to keep trading away his stars for mid-round draft picks. Watson would not come cheap, and it might force the city of Houston to start rioting, but if anyone is crazy enough to do it, it's a guy who trades DeAndre Hopkins for a second-round pick and a washed running back with a bad contract.

1. Replacing Watson With An Overpaid Free Agent

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O'Brien is a guy who insisted the Texas pay Brock Osweiler $72 million over four years to be their next franchise quarterback despite never having met with him face to face. If he gets rid of Watson or Watson himself justifiably pitches a fit and forces his own way out, you can bet O'Brien will look to free agency for his next quarterback. Andy Dalton, Jacoby Brissett and Mitch Trubisky will all be free agents in 2021, and you can bet O'Brien would consider overpaying for any one of them instead of drafting Watson's successor.