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When it comes to the Houston Texans, Clay Travis and Doug Gottlieb are missing the bigger picture

Houston Texans owner Bob McNair came under a great deal of heat after it was discovered he said, with regard to the NFL players protests, "We can't have inmates running the prison." This resulted in Pro Bowl receiver DeAndre Hopkins missing practice and most of the Texans' team kneeling in protest before their contest with the Seahawks in Seattle on Sunday. College basketball analyst Doug Gottlieb and sportswriter Clay Travis criticized the Texans players for this move, as the former said, "DeAndre Hopkins obviously - I'm just gonna be blunt - he's not smart enough to understand the nuance of what he's (Bob McNair) saying." and the latter ironically wrote, "Houston Texans Protest Proves Team Is Full Of Idiots." Both media personalities resorted to the fact that "you can't have inmates running the asylum" is a fairly common idiom which is used to declare that it's wrong to conclude employees are better able to run...