text: This strategy seems much more rational. It’s obvious they had a good plan in place for the rebuilding of the team. They should stick with it. Junking the plan and trading for Watson feels like a NY Mets style move designed to grab headlines and “win the offseason”.
  Watson to the Dolphins is the only win situation for the Texans. Niners don’t have enough draft assets and their QB isn’t young enough to build around. The Jets have picks and have Darnold but you don’t really want to build around Darnold, meaning you have to draft a QB with one of the picks and Darnold means nothing.
  Whereas the Dolphins have picks and Tua Tagovailoa. Tua had a decent rookie showing coming off an injury and had to compete with a really decent Fitzmagic. Tua would be a great QB to build around for the Texans and they can use the picks they would get to invest in other areas.
  Texans: Tua, 2021 3rd overall pick, 2021 18th overall pick, 2022 1st round pick and 2022 3rd round pick.
  Texans end up with a QB to build around, 2 firsts this year, a first round pick next year and a third round pick next year.
  Then if your the Texans I’d trade down with the third overall pick, I’d target Kyle Pitts, Terrace Marshall Jr, Creed Humphrey and then help on the defence. That way you have Tua, he has some weapons and some protection and then you can work on defence with the later rounds and FA
  You leave out the possibility that a deal with the Jets wouldn’t necessarily have to include Darnold if the Texans don’t want him. There’s been talk that Darnold could be flipped separately to a team like Washington.And the Jets have plenty of picks to make the deal, with or without whatever they get for Darnold. Doesn’t mean they will, but you shouldn’t just dismiss them entirely.