The Texans rebuilding path involved 3 straight years of 4 (or fewer) win seasons with two place holder coaches.
This board would not survive that type of rebuild. People nearly lost their minds tanking this year, imagine the reaction if Monty went into 2024 with a blatant tank job roster again? He could easily do it by trading away Kyler and just rolling with Tune. The meltdown would be nuclear.
It may have worked for the Texans, but that is a painful way to rebuild and risky too. Imagine if Tepper hadn't meddled with the Panthers pick (Panthers GM wanted Stroud) and the Texans were stuck with Bryce right now? That's how you become Cleaveland.
Rebuild. Like it or not you stay the course. That’s why I kind of laugh when I see suggestions of signing guys like Higgins or Jones. It ain’t gonna happen.
Yes we will sign some free agents. We still need some solid if not spectacular pieces to this team. We need to let rookies and 2nd year players blossom and mature. Whether it was injuries or by designed we played more rookies for more minutes than any other team in the league. That’s good.
I want to see 3 or 4 guys signed this year like White and Froholdt. I want to see another good draft. We are not in any position to start putting frosting on the cake just yet.
I want to see the glaring holes filled.
We need dt’s. Whether it’s a solid free agent and a guy like Newton, Sweat or Murphy I’ll be okay with it.
We need wr’s. I’ll assume it will be one of the big 3 in the draft. That’s not enough. There are plenty of solid free agents we could add. If it isn’t Brown ( but I think it will be) I’d like to see a bigger wr that is willing to block.
We need an OT and a guard. Another area to fill one of those with free agency and draft the other.
CB? We might see a free agent signing here.
I think the other building blocks will be through the draft. Like it or not, and there are some here that will hate it, we will add the pieces but probably not with big name, big splash free agents.