To me, the issue is waiting until now to negotiate. He has been a good rotation player/borderline starter for close to 3 years. But he made next to nothing. If the Texans had approached him after last season with an offer of, say, 5-year, $20 mill., he would have been hard pressed to turn it down. Letting him even get to free agency was the mistake. People always overpay in free agency and this should have been anticipated.
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