They fired BOB in early October. They hired Caserio in early January. I think Caserio's late arrival probably screwed up the HC search a bit. Food for thought.
Like a minor league affiliate. We should promote stuff too bold to get promoted in New England like a hot dog with butter pecan ice cream. I don't know.
This team is such a ****ing joke. The entire organization is just an absolute non-stop 24 hour clown show.
Some idiot called Tim Kelly a franchise play caller! Not to defend that guy but Tim Kelly was the first one of these patriots rejects to even try to run uptempo and pick plays with Watson and the 2 games we saw with Mills.
This is assuming Culley was Caserio’s call. I don’t know if it was but don’t forget Cal started interviewing coaches before Caserio was even hired. Not to mention that he had mommy sitting in on the interviews. That search was a $hit show from the start.
I don't think it should really have affected it to the point of getting David Culley (edit: in the sense that if you were going with Culley, you were in no hurry so you could have delayed the search longer). Any OC/DC would still potentially take a HC job if offered in Feb or March. That said, the Texans job was an exception because it was so terrible. Here's what I said at the time, so in the moment I agreed it wasn't as much Caserio as it was the organizational dumpster fire:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/te...nt-ownership-David-Culley-firing-16773567.php After several days of “evaluation,” the powers that be with the Texans decided to fire head coach David Culley. Don’t ask me what they were doing through all these months of the season that they needed to take an embarrassing number of days after the season ended Sunday to determine if Culley should be let go. Culley’s tenure as Texans head coach should not have been one season. Zero was the number. A lovely guy and a pretty good coach according to many of the players who played for him over his three decades in the NFL, Culley wasn’t qualified to be an NFL head coach. So how did he get hired in the first place? This is what you get when you have an organization run by people who haven’t ever done what they’re doing, maybe don’t know what they’re doing, and possibly are incapable of doing well at what they are doing. The Three Stooges. Cal McNair, who didn’t exactly distinguish himself in the years he followed his father around the Texans’ facility holding a title with little or no responsibility, is learning all that is involved in being an owner. Based on his track record thus far, the edification is coming along veeeeerry sloooowly. Jack Easterby, who somehow weaseled his way into having say in Texans’ personnel decisions despite Bill Belichick saying Easterby’s “not a personnel person,” is learning on the job as executive vice president of football operations, where he is responsible for “the overall culture of the organization.” Easterby has proved to be a disastrous hire and the Texans’ the team culture has never been as pitiful as it has been since he showed up in town. General manager Nick Caserio eventually had some input and say in team decisions while with the Patriots. Of course, he has zero experience in input and say without Belichick having significantly more input and say. So, what happens when Caserio gets his first job as a general manager? He got to run a head coach search for the first time in his life, because every year he had worked in the NFL, Belichick was the head coach. Those three got together and came up with the idea to hire Culley, who had never been a head coach on any level and who had never even interviewed for a head-coaching position before. Wonder what they would come up with if they did a self-evaluation? If only they could fire themselves. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/te...y-firing-Texans-show-true-colors-16773508.php Pathetic. Absurd. Ridiculous. Whatever word or term you want to use, it works. David Culley shouldn't have been hired by the Texans. So, technically, Cal McNair's football team answered for its past mistake on Thursday by firing the inexperienced and overmatched Culley after just one year on the job. But the way that the Texans handled Culley? The fact that first-year general manager Nick Caserio stood inside the same facility as Culley on Monday, then allowed Culley to hold a season wrap-up press conference with the local media while openly discussing Year Two? As pathetic and weak as it gets. Caserio is now officially on the clock. He barely made it through a full year, then fired the first head coach that he hired to guide the Texans through a massive top-down rebuild. Will Jack Easterby also be fired? That would be the only way to make this look a little better, and Easterby was at the center of the stunning January 2021 Culley hire. Culley didn't even make it a full year on the job. On Monday, the Texans coldly paraded Culley before the media after a 4-13 season. He was still the Texans' HC, as far as he knew. Three days later, Houston's NFL team fired the coach that it used all season. This is the Texans Way. These are Cal McNair's Texans — a franchise that former owner and team founder Bob McNair wouldn't recognize.
Agreed. I think he’s Vrabel 2.0 Flores seems like a pretty good coach just had a shitty qb. He wanted Herbert the GM didn’t.
