Monday’s news that Textons was firing head coach / general manager Bill O’Brien after a 0-5 start was a spectacular one and that’s not surprising. I doubt O’Brien’s decision-making, as he took over staff power in 2019, is either a lack of long-term vision or a failure to understand how the rest of the league appreciates players if the move is rigged. I can understand why the Texans will evaluate that move and plan to find a compromise to replace O’Brien as the team’s general manager in the coming years.
Firing a coach right now, however, doesn’t make perfect sense. The Texans are 0-2 and flying in the AFC South, but they have played the league’s toughest schedule, including games against the Chiefs, Ravens and Steelers before the Vikings lost on Sunday. Losing to the previous Winless Vikings is obviously not something great, but O’Brien has won four division titles in the previous five seasons with his organization. The four losses against seemingly excellent competition should not be enough to make the organizational ship run faster in the opposite direction and start a new direction. It makes you wonder how much attention was actually paid to ownership before this slow start.
Let’s split O’Brien’s decision on two different roles, as I look at each of them differently:
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How much could have really changed between now and the end of August Gust? Sure, O’Brien’s decision to trade David Johnson and wide receiver Dandre Hopkins for second-round picks doesn’t look great, but it felt bad in March when ownership signed the idea of trading their star player. . Other trade acquisitions, such as Duke Johnson and Cornbach Garen Conley, have been injured. Low-ceilinged free-agents such as Wideout Randall Cobb and safety Eric Murray did not do well – Textons was interested in free agent Earl Thomas to replace Murray in early Murray, before Justin Reid played a stronger safety, O’Brien’s players spoke against him in the report. – But those were the decisions that seemed terrible at the time.
O’Brien paid on barriers to lock small core pieces such as quarterback Deshen Watson, aggressively Laremi Tuncil and linebacker Zack Cunningham. To assign contracts that were more generous than the market price, But it’s not even a fire crime. In any case, the level of oversight from the ownership of the Texans is astonishing. It was time to rein in O’Brien, but it was a while ago. His 2019 move suggests he is overreacting when it comes to deals and contract negotiations. It was a proprietary mistake for Devi to get another se fission from the employees ’decisions.
Okay, so, the league-high $ 249.3 million is being spent on players this season by the Texans starting 0-4, as that bug shouldn’t be corrected as soon as possible and O’Brien out of the GM chair? For one, they can’t go out and get an immediate replacement. Preliminary reports suggest that Houston will hand over the items to former Patriots pastor Jack Esterby, who was brought to Houston by O’Brien in 2019 and became vice president of football operations law of operations in 2020. Pretty bad every step O’Brien has been doing for the last while. It’s been two years since Easterby in the picture, so the idea that Easterby will somehow solve the problem in this organization after O’Brien’s departure seems strange.
In addition, while the Texans have Watson and many other promising young players, this will be one of the least lucrative jobs in the league. The Texans did not have their first or second round of elections in 2018 after trading for Watson and dumping Brock Osweiler’s contract. They sent out 2020 first and second-round selections as part of the business of Tunsil and broader Brandin Cooks, and when they returned to the Hopkins deal, they did not have their first or second round selections in 2021.
Any general manager who takes this job feels the pinch of a missing pick and won’t get another crack on the pick pick until 2022. The owner has paid only a ton of money for the contract, which means text people are unlikely to be aggressive in free agency in two or three years. Plus, while some general managers may be interested if they have time to reinstate the roster and resume draft capital, Houston has been massively irregular with its timeline. Since owner Kell McNair took control after his father’s death in 2018, he has fired general manager Brian Gain after winning the division title in his single year on the job, reshaping the organization to O Brian’s liking, then starting 0-4. The former former coach of Penn State. Why would any promising executive with options elsewhere want to play this role?
In fact, while Texans on Bryan was pushing a bottle of draft picks to get Tunisil ahead of Hopkins, they should have made sure to see the O’Brien experiment by the end of 2021. That would be the right time to re-evaluate things, and if the Textons at that time had their coach / GM. Going forward, they can hire someone with a full stock closet of draft picks and offer a chance to exit under some s. ‘Brian’s questionable contracts.
Firing O Brian now admits that Texans was wrong to give him that kind of power, but he does nothing to fix the problems. The more realistic way was to block the use of proprietary veto power, especially by the undisclosed O’Brien, who said he needed to win with a roster built in months. He probably wouldn’t have moved on – and it’s possible that O’Brien wasn’t ready to work as a coach if he didn’t have full authority as general manager – but the team made this bed for themselves over the last two. Years. 0-4 should not be the start that made them realize their mistake.
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Let’s add an offensive placard to his list of duties after reports that O’Brien took over this weekend, whereas, solutions for any plan would bill him more and hopefully fix the problem, which would look sick. -Decided that O’Brien only gave plaque all gender duties to Tim Kelly in February.
Leave Brian the general manager aside, and think hard about the coaching side of things. Can you really justify this move? O’Brien took charge of the 2-14 team with Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback and posted five winning seasons in six years at the hearing. The only season he lost was when Watts tore his ACL in 2017. O’Brien had more than six plus years at the helm of the Texans ૨–48, but he won four division titles in five years.
I wasn’t optimistic about his chances of success in 2020, and O’Brien couldn’t push towards the AFC title game, but with how many coaches were fired after he started 0-4 against a brutally difficult schedule. Resume Sort? It seems impossible that O’Brien was fired while both the Lions ‘Matt Patricia and the Jets’ Dam Gas still have their jobs.
It would be one thing to have O’Brien fired after a Texans season and have a high profile replacement for a job like Lincoln Relay or Left Swinney. It would have been more defensive to run it after the disappointing campaign, if I think it would have been a little harder after years of relative success. Without a general manager, Easterby also seems to play a meaningful role in the hiring process.
Instead, the Texans are encouraging 73-year-old Romeo Colonel to take over as the team’s interim coach. After the chiefs burned his defense in the divisional round, the above-mentioned Colonel Texans will not reshape. He is 28-55 years old as the head coach in his career. The worst thing that can happen now is that they can improve against a simple schedule and persuade McNair to keep Cranell as their full-time coach.
That was exactly what happened in 2011, when the Chiefs ended their strained relationship with Todd Haley after a 5-8 start and promoted the Colonel to the role. He finished 2-1, the Chiefs upset the undefeated Packers team in his debut. Kansas City offered the colonel a full-time job, which … immediately went 2-14 and lost its job a year later. In the long run, he did brilliant work for Kansas City, which then retained Andy Reed after the Eagles’ future Hall of Fame coach, but in a small sample the Cranel’s fortunes put the Chiefs franchise back a year.
The Texans will be better for the rest of the season, but I doubt that will be the easiest product to schedule for the most part. There are still problems on this team. The trade left them with a little depth of depth. Many of the original players (also David Johnson, Will Fuller, JJ Watt and Watson) are worried about major injury from season to season. The secondary is a disaster and the Texans have no clear way to fix it. The contracts and deals made by On Brian General Manager limit the flexibility to reshape the roster of any new coach.
Again, it’s hard to believe that O’Brien reshaped the roster this spring, saw what the first month of his season would look like, and fired his football czar after he started 0-4. Sunday’s game might have gone in a different direction if Fuller had come down with a one-handed catch in the end zone in the fourth quarter, which would have given the Texans a chance to tie the game with a two-pointer. If Fuller came down with that catch and came back to win the game of Texans football, would ownership reclaim O’Brien? Could his plans have suddenly become more meaningful in the last 18 months? Did the Vikings hurt McNair by focusing on what was wrong with his football team?
Before the season, I compared O’Brien to Chip Kelly. Like O’Brien, the Eagles coach credited his success in college to his NFL head-coaching role, then used his success as a coach to win power struggles and handle staff duties. Kelly then made a series of bizarre decisions in free agency and through trade, and when his team failed to live up to expectations, the Eagles fired Kelly.
Kelly got at least one season enough to prove that her choices were as stupid as they seem. O’Brien has played a year and four games, but he made it to the playoffs with both roles in his first season before the ugly start of 2020. Both seem to be subject to Peter’s theory, the people of the company will think that the level where they can prove that they are excessive. O’Brien will get another job as a coach, but after a widely running move for almost two years, it’s hard to imagine another team handing him staff responsibilities.
In the end, there was no one left to use O’Brien as an excuse, no power to give up and no promotion to achieve. The only person in the organization more powerful than O’Brien, McNair, who decided to sever ties with O’Brien and his plans for the team after a month of bad football. I can understand why McNair made his decision, but it seems impossible to separate Onbryan from the decision McNair gave him. McNair can fix the ship and turn things around if the Texans hire O’Brien right for O’Brien’s old position in O’Farrell, but the job doesn’t seem particularly lucrative either. McNair has also proved he hasn’t been on his job for the past two years, but you can’t fire the owner because O’Brien missed Monday.
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