Pendergast column "Texans Miss the Mark..."

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by barrett

We could draft Jerry Rice and it's still a bad deal. If I sell my car for $10 and then buy a Ferrari with that $10, it was still a bad deal to sell my car for $10, because I could have gotten much more and still bought the Ferrari for $10 after.

We could make a great pick and it doesn't change the fact that we could have made 3 or 4 great picks if we didn't value David Johnson %1000 higher than the rest of the NFL.

Thank you Barrett for explaining it to the OP and for anybody else who might be confused about why O'Briens stunning trade was so egregiously bad for the Texans.
It's still difficult for me to understand how somebody in the NFL over ten years as an offensive coach including several as a Bill Belichick disciple could make that trade ?