NFL insider notes The Texans and five teams with the worst offseason plans through free agencys first wave

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    It's going to be difficult for any NFL team to strip the mantle of 2020 offseason losers from the . Rarely have I seen a trade as universally panned by the scouting community, the analytics community, the player community, and the coaching community Emmanuel Mudiay Jersey the way the trade was.That is a difficult task to pull off in and of itself, and when one considers it also include the Texans taking on one of the worst contracts in football in the proce s in (don't get me wrong; it was a home run for the player and the agent, just not for the front office that agreed to it), and it sets the bar pretty low. Throw in the contract (just compare it to what got for instance, and the lo s of DJ Reader, and the fact they still have to pay and and, probably, , and this is a recipe for disaster. But hey, at least they still have leftover from when they paid half of Jadaveon Clowney's contract to trade him to the last year except, well, Mingo is a pure journeyman and on the market again.Still, they have a full complement of draft picks to fill the gaps except, well, they drastically overpaid for Tunsil in the trade last year, too, so they are in win-now-or-bust mode. Yikes. Coach/GM/football czar Bill O'Brien is becoming a figure of great derision in Houston these days it seems -- be careful what you wish for in those power grabs and it just might be that, even le s than a week into the official start of the League Year, the Texans are going to run away and hide with this crown.But we'll at least keep the drama going, my friend. Let's not anoint them just yet. Still a little too early for that. And there is some competition. They are not alone in their series of head-scratching moves in the opening days of this 2020 transaction season. Perhaps someone will catch them. There are certainly a handful of other teams who give me great pause as to what exactly they are trying to accomplish. Here are some other franchises that would probably be getting even more flak if not for Houston's extreme exploits.JacksonvilleThis was always going to be an Bojan Bogdanovic Jersey ugly offseason for them. But just when you think they are going to just bite the bullet and tank and sell off what is left of their talent for whatever they can get, they turn around and give a linebacker a five-year, $55M deal. Huh? This is not a team that needs to spend money just to get to the mandatory 89-percent of the cap threshold, no, in fact, no team has spent -- or wasted -- more money on payroll the last five years than the .So if they wanted to cut back some and prepare for the future, so be it. So go ahead and trade last week, while the huge contracts were flying around for pa s rushers, and take what you can get. Why drag this out when teams have le s to spend for a player who did exactly what did, if need be, to get out of there. Why not trade for an offensive lineman or do whatever you can and start playing youngsters? If is gone and AJ Bouye is gone, why do this half-a sed, again? What are you waiting for? Get in now before the free-agency wave crashes. This team has no chance to be competitive -- which has been the case pretty much every year the last 10 years save for one.Chicago?!? Nick Foles?!? You managed to find the one veteran with a playoff pedigree who actually might not be able to push . You need a viable QB2 who should be able to play 12 games or more once your starter shows what he is again and you sign a QB who has a good six weeks in him, at best, every year. And you take on a brutal contract in the proce s? Porque? gonna Bear. had a nice season, but GM Ryan Pace paid him like he was 27 years old not on the wrong side of 30. I have yet to talk to a personnel man who believes the Bears bra s will have a chance of saving their jobs with this Frankenstein roster they have created. I mean, $9M a year for ? He played against you twice a year in Green Bay. Was anyone in the Bears front office watching? Losing Kwiatkowski will hurt a defense that Joe Ingles Jersey was already slipping from its 2019 form -- reminds me of losing from a year before -- and the offensive line has to be addre sed still. Good luck. The downward spiral in Chicago will continue and, much like in Houston, when the next regime takes over it will be saddled with problems that could take years to undo.Los Angeles ()Like Jacksonville, you could see this one coming from months back. And that Jalen Ramsey trade was only going to exacerbate the problems. Even a great young coach like Sean McVay is going to have a hard time making this work. I'm not big on or -- but someone will have to replace them and the lack of edge rushers around is a problem. Gone also are , Nickell Bradley-Coleman and . Gulp.On offense, no one was ever gonna take 's contract off their hands, and dumping him was the only recourse, but still, that was the second-best player on that team as recently as two years ago and they got nothing for him. is not what he once was, and making a $20M commitment to him may come back to bite them -- then again they lack the picks to needed to draft a left tackle early. 's contract will be an albatro s for years to come, they are saddled with a bad deal and lack maneuverability on the roster in a bad way. Call me crazy, but I don't see and being difference makers there. That division is getting better and deeper. I think the Rams are in Jordan Clarkson Jersey deep trouble.DallasThe defense was awful before the offseason began, and they seem intent on making it even worse in 2020! How about that? Two of their biggest contributors from a year ago -- pa s rusher Robert Quinn and corner -- are gone. is back, despite his age and years of injury woes. They'd better hope makes a far more significant impact than he did in Carolina last year, or this thing might really crumble. Keeping is nice, but wait until is making $38M a year. It's going to limit the ability to do a few other things, and Jerry Jones has been paltry spending on payroll the last four years, anyway. They'd better have one helluva of a draft, and it had better lean decidedly to the defensive side of the ball. Their ability to stop anyone remains very much in question, and even all of the yards they rolled up a year ago were not enough to make them anything close to a Andrei Kirilenko Jersey contending team.DetroitRelying on former New England players -- by executives and coaches who used to work for the -- has not worked out that well, at all, over the years. And with Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia very much trying to keep their jobs in 2020, they went back to that well. The moves seem desperate to their peers. And I believe they face an uphill climb. Yes, they can draft a corner to replace -- but they need to make good with the third and fifth-round picks they got for that shutdown corner from Philly -- and that's not an easy task with a mid and late-round draft pick. They have reshuffled their offensive line yet again, and need it to really stick this time.

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