They could have traded for Jimmy G. Or just waited till the heavily QB loaded class of 2016. Agreed, no sense crying about it now... but it was seen as a desperation move then, and the results were even more desperate.
Name the reasons then. So far I've got A. because our offense has stinked even though for the most part its been roughly middle of the pack other than the Osweiler year. B. Because he hand-picks awful QB's - but we have a legit QB now that thrived in this offense so whats the problem? From this picture, I see an up-and-down tenure with a team that probably over-achieved, but has never had real championship aspirations until landing Watson. What am I missing that points to the obviousness that he is the obviously incompetent, worst coach in the division? I don't think he's amazing, I don't think we really know yet, but the ridiculous anti-BOB opinions have turned me into a defender I guess. Not everything is so black and white
Anyway, I have New Years things to do, so I'll leave the BOB fanboys to their excitement about their guy being awful enough to somehow be given a promotion by this train wreck of a franchise. Incompetence isn't often rewarded like that, so when it is, I guess you guys deserve to celebrate.
I love Kubiak and loved his tenure with the Texans... but the year the Broncos won the Super-Bowl their offense was worse than basically any of O'Brien's "incompetent" offenses. They basically needed only 150 pass yards a game to win behind that historic defense.
The Broncos managed to score more points in the season where they won the SB with Osweiler as their best QB than the Texans have since BOB's first season here. BOB seaon with Osweiler = 279 points Kubiak season with Osweiler =355 points One is legitimately a good offensive coach, one....well he has a butt chin and that's the only thing notable about him.
Or else we'll have to eat his contract when we likely have to fire him next year. After 4-12 you make him prove himself
Osweiler was also a good fit for Kubiak's play-action offense and O'Brien has proven he excels best when running a spread-offense with a dual-threat quarterback. O'Brien might not be an offensive mastermind that can make duds like look stars, but that doesn't mean he can't put a good offense around Deshaun Watson (something he's already proven he CAN do).
So what GM is gonna want to walk into this mess? Sure we have some good pieces, but overall the roster has huge holes and no top two picks. Cap room is nice but good free agents are expensive.
Whaa??? It’s a clean rebuild with the hardest position filled, cap space and a handful of draft picks. Who wouldn’t want that role?
I think the biggest problem is that you are going to a situation with a terrible head coach already locked in. Otherwise it's not that bad. The team has a potentially elite franchise QB, a star WR, a stellar defensive core. Honestly the Texans already have the hardest things to find and they have tons of cap room and will have a last place schedule. It would be easy to step in and look good as a GM.....except that the team will be limited by being stuck with an awful head coach that is worthless.
Keep Bill but make him change his assistants. Devlin should be gone. Not only did the line play terrible he vouched for Giacomini. Butler gotta go too. The secondary was caught in bad position so many times. Plus they put Joseph on opposing speed receivers. Butler gotta go too. Wonder if Vance is okay with going back to coaching DBs.
Rick should land on his feet. After all, according to at least one poster here, all he needs to do is "leak" that he's a good GM candidate, and someone will hire him right away.
Obrien isn’t a bad coach I will say he corrects his mistakes starting savage took him out in a half Kubiak prolly would have stayed with savage like he did schaub who wasn’t that good. Of course he needs to improve some things maybe after finally having a losing season he will oh and having a QB he likes and is good
I don't doubt it, giving an incompetent head coach an extension after a 4 win season would be the most Texans thing that could ever happen. I mean, sure it sucks, but that's just how it goes. I suppose it's good news for Hoyer, he'll probably be our backup QB next year if BOB gets more roster control.
