Just signed an extension with Baylor. Not sure about the buyout. Not sure he's interested in the NFL. Baylor opens a new stadium next season. We'll see. Briles' real strength is recruiting...his in-roads among Texas high school football coaches.
Maybe the TIA did more damage than we expected...for him to have benched Keenum...This team and season has been like the Twilight zone... Kubiak doesnt deserve a job...and time for the team to trade Andre to a better team and coaching system... Im pleading for Bob McNair to trade AJohnson to the Patriots
I'm pleading for McNair to hold management and coaching accountable and build a real NFL operation. If that involves trading AJ, then so be it. I'd prefer AJ retire a Texan, however.
I'll never understand why the fans of a team would want to trade away a great player and a team icon so they can go win somewhere else. It will bring me no joy to see Johnson win a title with another team. If you could get a 1st round pick or something then maybe you consider it under the guise of rebuilding, but considering you'd get a low draft pick, you'd basically be trading him just to help him win elsewhere. Sorry.
Been a Kubiak supporter for a while. Schaub has looked bad this season and last and got a long leash. Keenum has looked better and got a short leash. I like a coach that doesn't make knee jerk changes. Pulling Keenum was a knee jerk move that shows Kubiak is adverse to any change. You have to adapt. I hope Rick Smith corrects this problem quickly.
kubes never benched matt it was the injury that made the decision for him. then keenum gets the shortest leash ever with no running game and a defense that has been struggling. fack you kubes, GTFO!!!
it absolutely can. keep kubiak around and see not only AJ but guys like Watt and Cushing and Foster openly hint at requeting a trade. you fire kubiak today to make sure the pro-bowl caliber players you still have on this team are not completely alienated into leaving.
It should happen today. It won't, though. It won't be until after the season. It's entirely possible that they take weeks...months even...to make a decision once the season has ended. If you consider the pace at which this franchise decides to make big decisions, I would put better odds at Kubiak and crew not getting fired until after the draft.
After the Schaub decision, and Marciano still having a job, who knows if it is even possible for Kubiak to do something to get himself fired at this point. After all other owners have told McNair that Kubiak is the right guy (never mind that those owners are your competition).
allowing this staff to remain on board to conduct the draft would literally be the most Texans move this franchise could make. so absoutely assinine that i have no doubt this is what bob will elect to do.
Amen to that. The dude thinks it is 2 years ago. He runs this team like its a power running football team that can impose its will on the other team which is obviously not true.
I agree with you that Kubiak really believes that Shaub gives the Texans to win. However Kubiak goes beyond being loyal, beyond being stubborn, he is a fool. I do not doubt that Kubiak thought that he would send Shaub back in at some point, that Shaub would play the part of hero and then Kubiak could reinsert Shaub as the starter from here on out and give a big "I told you so" to everyone. The Texans would fight hard the rest of the year and Kubiak and Shaub get another shot next year. Instead it blew up in Kubiak's face. He pulls Case (which shocked everyone), inserts Shaub (causing a real controversy), the Texans lose anyway and AJ and Shaub have words.... then in typical Kubiak fashion he doesn't name Case the starter next weekend. It is getting to the point where Kubiak is a cancer on this team. He is a good man, but he needs to move on and be an OC for the Jaguars or maybe go coach at the collegiate level.
He has balls. I don't know what the difference would be in between Briles or Sumlin. I'll take the offensive guru/mastermind. Anyway, I've heard the buyout is 20M so a moot point.
Briles offensive system is not really that special. What makes him "special" is his ability to recruit offensive players so well in large part because of his background as a high school coach. He has great connections in Texas at the high school level in Dallas and in a number of the small towns through out Texas. As an NFL head coach his connections would be irrelevant.
