Thoughts on the Clowney trade in hindsight?

I really hated it after seeing Mack get traded for 2 firsts and Texans only got a third (the Hopkins-Diggs fiasco gives me the same feeling but magnified).

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But in hindsight, it looks like that might have been an alright trade for us. Given that he's been on the market for a month and is still a free agent, it seems that the league values him at his price as a negative asset. Right now Seattle won't even pay 13 mil/year for him. Seattle is probably gonna get a 3rd round compensatory pick for him when all is said and done, so in the end I don't think the Texans really lost value.

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The question then becomes if we could have sold Clowney for more, like a 2nd or 1st rounder, if we shipped him in the beginning of the summer. Might have been possible, but in hindsight it probably would have looked like a fleece (imagine the Texans fleecing another team instead of getting fleeced themselves)!