When you’re one of the hot young defensive minds in NFL coaching circles but you inherit a defensive roster pillaged by incompetence thanks to your head coach and general manager (who happen to be the same person), you fall into the category of: set up to fail. Anthony Weaver was very much set up to fail with the 2020 Houston Texans defense. The 2019 defense was weakened when O’Brien traded away Jadeveon Clowney iand failed to so much as offer a contract to outgoing free agent cornerback Kareem Jackson. When O’Brien let D.J. Reader walk in free agency, it only got worse.