What he “liked” is the truth. I would rather a player on the team didn’t publicly say it (most the time) but the truth is a lot of the guys on the field know the organization is a dumpster fire and would rather not be involved with it all.
https://www.espn.com/blog/new-engla...ht-at-four-games-cam-newton-just-wants-points 8. Easterby's influence: Former Patriots character coach/player development Jack Easterby, now serving as Texans vice president of football operations, made national headlines last week when Houston fired highly-regarded vice president of communications Amy Palcic, the lone woman in the NFL to hold that level of position. Texans president Jamey Rootes told the Houston Chronicle in a statement that it was his decision, but the silence of Easterby -- who has been given wide-ranging authority to reshape the organization -- speaks louder to me. Why? Because behind the scenes in New England, Easterby often stressed to others the importance of integrity, accountability and faith.
I'm assuming this person was a winner as she isn't a cultural fit here. That type of winning personality just won't fly in this franchise. Cal puting the law down.
How did a self help preacher become an executive of a football team? Nepotism? Grifting? Of course Cal Mcnair and his shitty conservative ideology is going to place someone like Easterby in power. It's those old conservative boomers who are the most easily fooled by snake oil salesmen.
I don't know if it was in her contract or not but she was using her team sponsored twitter account to promote politics, mainly anti-Trump stuff. She's deleted a lot of the re-tweets but if you go through her likes you get the point. Seeing as how Bob was a conservative, I'm assuming Cal is probably a conservative so there's the cultural misfit.
What I would "like" is us cutting him. Him being on the roster is one example of the **** decisions. A player has to at least be 3rd on the depth chart to have a ****ing opinion, gtfo out of here with defending Kenny ****ing Still nonsense. Are you just trying to be contrarian? He's a ****ing clown. Get him off the team.
That is a massive and incorrect assumption. The Astros have a media relations team. The general counsel and upper management were responsible for the idiotic response denying it happened. You think media relations was allowed to take the lead in an issue involving the behavior of the assistant GM? Please...
Yes, I think the PR people would have taken the lead on a PR issue, rather than giving it to non-PR people who have no experience handling a PR crisis. It seems to be common sense to me given that it's entire purpose of the job. At least, that's how it would work in a well-run organization.
As a general rule if you work PR you should avoid airing political BS because it can be seen as toxic. That's something that is true no matter what your politics are. I'm curious if the white knights who are rushing to defend her would be so quick to do so if her politics were different? That's why smart PR people would avoid it altogether.
I think after 20yrs we all have an idea now what a “cultural fit” means for the McNair family. The entire city of Houston should be rejecting this franchise until the ownership changes hands.
Oh, boy... I'm trying to follow you here... but I don't believe Amy has a long list of external crisis communication experience you can point to. The praise for her was rooted in managing team/player availability within league and media circles, which a) is/was her primary job; b) isn't unimportant, so I'm not minimizing it - but isn't the same as putting out a complex and urgent burning fire like Brandon Taubman. Plus, are we just going to conveniently forget how many PR slip-ups the Texans have had, like McNair's sloppy and eventually retracted apology for his inmate comment? Sports teams are (generally) not equipped for full-blown media crises. Also, not to overly nitpick, but I'd argue the Astros' PR problems really began July 31, 2018.Their massive mishandling of the Osuna trade was the beginning of the end - it put them, their attitude and culture in the cross-hairs and it became a matter of time before they were exposed because people started to actively root for it.
There will be less than 10 NFL head coaching jobs; likely less than 5 GM jobs available. *Maybe* firing Amy - and the "culture fit" - gives a coach pause... and then they'll watch Deshaun Watson tape and quickly unpause.
