Texans trade #57 for Brandin Cooks and '22 fourth

[bikerack]

Title says it all.

All of Cooks' guaranteed money has already been paid out by LA so he is essentially on an $8 million (base salary) prove it deal. Houston can cut him without penalty after the season or restructure to make the last 3 years more cap friendly.

Texans two WR trades this offseason:

GAVE
* DeAndre Hopkins
* 2nd-round pick (#57...their original pick)
* 4th-round pick

GOT
* David Johnson
* Brandin Cooks
* 2nd-round pick (#40)
* 2021 4th-round pick
* 2022 4th-round pick

[Keith]

Rams taking a $21.8M dead money cap hit in order for Brandin Cooks and his eleventy million concussions to NOT play for the Rams anymore.

[chuck]

Hey guys, let’s wait until this all plays out before we judge how terrible it is, huh?

[Keith]

This is chuck's safeword post. He must be mixed up in some serious Central American crimelord shit.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by Keith

This is chuck's safeword post. He must be mixed up in some serious Central American crimelord shit.

That would actually be entertaining. Instead I’m just sitting here inside like everyone else.

The truth is my total apathy rules the day. I don’t care what the team does and won’t care at least until this shitshow leaves town. Probably not even then. Unfortunately the owners have enough money to keep this afloat indefinitely, and Nexans are a famously self-flagellating sort, so I can’t see any changes on the horizon for any reason.

The city’s other two owners used considerable debt to make the purchases and are likely in some trouble. The despicable owner of the Rockets is going to have to do an organ grinder monkey dance in front of his bond holders to keep the team. Probably issue some more bonds, too. The other idiot, who knows, he’ll probably just bend over and take it in the ass from the league again.

Anyway, it looks like I chose an outSTANding offseason to quit caring about North American sports.

[Keith]

If Deshaun Watson can remain healthy all season, I'd still peg the Texans as favorites to win the division and lose in the divisional round of the playoffs. Rinse and repeat. O'Brien keeps on keepin on. Time is a flat circle.

[HPF Bob]

So, the WR corps as it now stands is Randall Cobb, Brandin Cooks (sounds to me like a bad C&W band), Oops Fuller V, Kenny Stills, Kiki Cutie, DeAndre Carter and Steven Mitchell.

Poor Deshaun. I would not be surprised by a holdout. Well, if he wants a trade out of town, D-Hop has written the book for him on how to do it.

[Blitzwood]

Not sure why we would trade a 2nd rounder we could have on a rookie contract for 4-5 years for essentially a one year rental.

Bob doing what bob does...

[HPF Bob]

It's because O'Brien doesn't like players who demand to renegotiate fat contracts when he can just trade for players with already bloated contracts.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

It's because O'Brien doesn't like players who demand to renegotiate fat contracts when he can just trade for players with already bloated contracts.

Good call. If you're already paying them way too much that just removes a lot of the headache.

[Arky]

Well, I do think the organization won some points back although I think everyone is still good and pissed off. I think the majority would still prefer to have Hopkins instead of what transpired.....

I believe I heard on the radio that Cooks is fast - like Will Fuller fast. That could be interesting - Cooks and Fuller on the field at the same time could be entertaining....

That's all I want as a fan - entertainment. Watching talented, well coached players doing their thing. Lord knows the Texans don't always deliver...

[HPF Bob]

Originally Posted by chuck

Good call. If you're already paying them way too much that just removes a lot of the headache.

True because Head Coach O'Brien has to deal with those headaches 6 months of the year while GM O'Brien only has to sign them once a year at most. So GM O'Brien is removing headaches for Head Coach O'Brien who objects to baby mamas hanging around practice or bellyaching to renegotiate contracts.

Plus, Head Coach O'Brien is secure in knowing that he'll never be fired by GM O'Brien so he can vote anyone off his island whenever he feels like it. Apparently, anyone who offers a second-rounder and a fourth-rounder for anyone on the Texans roster is golden.

[Blitzwood]

With such a deep and talented WR draft class, this trade boggles my mind. We could have gotten Cooks for a 4th or 5th rounder.
Now all the WR are speedsters, zero diversity in the WR Corp.

Not to mention concussion history of Cooks, and injury history of Fuller.

I still think we’ll draft a WR in the second or third, hoping for Tee Higgins.