Don't care. Won't care. Along with being incompetent, he is an a-hole. Let him be the smartest person in some other room.
Honestly watching that game last night and a lot of games this season it feels like O'Brien is trying to get fired
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/t...brien-for-texans-losing-to-raiders-in-mexico/ Twitter blames refs, Bill O'Brien for Texans somehow losing to Raiders OK. Let's talk about the tail end of that Texans-Raiders game. The Raiders tied the game 20-20 with a 75-yard touchdown pass from Derek Carr to Jamize Olawale with just south of 11 minutes left to play. I'd say, "And that's where things started to get weird," but the truth is things had already gotten pretty weird earlier in the game, what with all the missed calls and whatnot. Brock Osweiler and Lamar Miller started marching the Texans down the field. A 5-yard run, a 14-yard pass, a 4-yard run, a 9-yard pass, a 5-yard run, a 3-yard run, and all of a sudden it was third-and-2 on the Oakland 19-yard line. Lamar Miller ran up the middle and appeared to get a first down but the officials spotted him short of the line. Everyone on Twitter wanted Bill O'Brien to challenge the spot. But O'Brien did not challenge the spot. Instead he ran up the middle on fourth down, this time with Akeem Hunt. He also appeared to get the first down, but the refs again marked him short. O'Brien challenged the spot of the ball this time. Chris Burke ✔@ChrisBurke_SI The Texans challenged the wrong play. That overhead shot's not going to be enough to overturn it. 10:30 PM - 21 Nov 2016 Matthew Berry ✔@MatthewBerryTMR NOW you challenge? The Raiders easily marched the ball down the field on the ensuing drive, which culminated in a 35-yard touchdown for Amari Cooper. The Texans still had another chance to tie the game. Osweiler picked up a first down with passes to C.J. Fiedorowicz and then DeAndre Hopkins. Then Lamar Miller ran for 5 yards on first down. Osweiler was sacked on second down. And then he completed a 4-yard pass on third down. (This ball was spotted about a yard behind where the receiver went down.) On fourth-and-5 from the 44-yard line, trailing 27-20 with 3:02 remaining, O'Brien ... punted? Yeah, it was weird. Gregg Rosenthal ✔@greggrosenthal That punt said a lot about O’Brien’s faith in Brock. 10:44 PM - 21 Nov 2016 Follow Scott Kacsmar ✔@FO_ScottKacsmar You just bypassed a go ahead FG, but decide to punt there with one timeout left? What a joke. 10:43 PM - 21 Nov 2016 Follow Matt Harmon ✔@MattHarmon_BYB One could call that punt a curious decision. 10:42 PM - 21 Nov 2016 The Raiders subsequently picked up two first downs, ran out the clock and won the game. The Texans did not appear to get a particularly fair shake from the refs throughout, having come out on the unlucky side of several calls, almost all of them on the same near sideline.
I don't get BOB's decision to keep running plays at the end of the Jags game last week; is it BOB or our sideline process that's so convoluted?
You realize it's legal to burn a time out in order to see more replays in the booth then challenge, when the game is on the line. Of course you do.
What disappoints me the most is BOB needed to go full Van Gundy post-game and eat whatever fine they dealt to him. He had to do it to protect his guys and put the league on notice. Instead he says "I don't want to get fined, I'm a third year coach." Shame on him for not challenging the 3rd down run (although it probably would've stood considering the screw job was in full play), and being overall weird. Who declines a defensive holding when the play didn't result in a first down? Smh....
Yeah, I think I'm done. This is very Charlie Strong-ish. As much as I like the guy, things on the field have reached a tipping point. Vote changed.
Can we get Romeo to take over coaching duties in tight game situations..... consecutive games where head coach does not know what he's doing.
I mean..... does the OC, the DC, or anybody up in the booth not watch the game and i dunno, maybe get the urge to advise BOB what he should do.
3rd and 16....with a min left...The Raiders conceivably could run out 40 seconds from the clock after the ball is snapped. Leaving us with about 20 seconds...Not accepting that penalty and forcing the Raiders to punt or try going for it is a better football play. It just was bizzare having Mckinney cover a RB. Think the biggest gripe everyone has with OB is that 3rd down non challenge. Lesser gripe, punting the football with 1 time out and 3 minutes left on the clock on a 4th down play. (For this play, I could understand his reasoning to use the last timeout and the 2 min warning to stop clock...so not a big deal for me).
Frreal. He likes to be short wit the media, and portrays himself as a dick.... why not act like one and curse up a storm. Instead he's indirectly throwing an excuse out there for his miscues, saying he's a 3rd year coach.....wtf.
I think he was referring to the defensive holding when the Texans had the ball much earlier in the game. O'Brien chose to accept 2nd and 2 rather than 1st and ten with the 2nd and 2 being 3 yards better. In other words, O'Brien chose 3 yards over a down. Considering the Texans averaged 4.75+ yards per play last night, it was a statistically bad decision.
In the end it didn't matter, Miller got the first on the next play, but it was yet another boneheaded move by BOB.
