OT: Texans to hire Pats' Director of Player Personnel as new GM
Anybody wanna take bets on Josh McDaniels as their new head coach?
https://theathletic.com/news/nick-caserio-texans-general-manager-patriots/hd73WblxoQfm
January 5th, 2021 at 9:56 PM ^
They can have him. Yuck.
January 6th, 2021 at 12:30 AM ^
No shit, sans Tom Brady, Belichick & McDaniels don't have anything close to a shiny record.
January 6th, 2021 at 5:15 AM ^
What are you talking about, it's the "Patriot Way". Its a guaranteed formula.
January 5th, 2021 at 10:04 PM ^
When will these teams learn?
January 5th, 2021 at 10:16 PM ^
They never will. Matt Patricia, come on down!
January 5th, 2021 at 10:07 PM ^
Splashy hire to make it sound important.
January 5th, 2021 at 10:07 PM ^
When was the last time someone got hired away from the Pats to run a team and it actually turned into a success?
Everyone tries to copy them and it never works. You don’t have Belichek and you don’t have Brady. Without those two, the Pats aren’t remotely close to what they’ve been the last 20 years.
January 5th, 2021 at 10:24 PM ^
Titans GM and HC are all Pats lackies.
Im so happy the Texans hired this guy. His headshot will always be peak meme material.
January 5th, 2021 at 11:06 PM ^
Vrabel played in NE, but never coached there. He went from OSU to Houston to Tennessee.
January 5th, 2021 at 10:28 PM ^
Technically Tampa hired Tom Brady and he is leading the team from the field not the front office.
January 5th, 2021 at 11:27 PM ^
Flores for the dolphins, judge for the Giants (did well for what they had and no Barkley), Nick Saban, kliff kingsbury got his start in NE
January 6th, 2021 at 12:12 AM ^
Dimitroff from the Falcons had success coming from NE organization.
January 5th, 2021 at 10:15 PM ^
I like the idea of Joe Brady with Watson at his disposal if I'm a Texans fan. He would be the best Houston coach since Bum Phillips.
January 6th, 2021 at 1:19 AM ^
I think the LA Chargers job is the best job in this cycle.
+ Franchise QB? Check.
+ Lots of talent on both sides of the ball? Check
+ Good cap space for free agents? Check
+ Good draft picks? Check
Also, LA Chargers were cursed in 1 possession games for the last 2 seasons.
They were very competitive in many games but kept flipping tails in close games. The right, winning coach can change that in a hurry.
I certainly see the allure of the Texans job (re: namely a proven franchise QB in Deshaun Watson) but Texans have some major holes because of the decisions Bill O'Brien made when he became GM in addition to HC.
If the Chargers fix the OL, they're going to contend for Super Bowls despite playing in a very competitive division headlined by the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes.
January 6th, 2021 at 8:40 AM ^
Yup. Would not want to be coach of the Texans/Falcons. They are both in bad shape and may take 3-4 years to turn around.
January 5th, 2021 at 10:18 PM ^
EDIT: What bacon1431 said above ^^
January 5th, 2021 at 10:18 PM ^
If Bill Obrien and Romeo Crennel can't do it, may as well try McDaniels. After that they can hire Eric Mangini and Charlie Weis
January 5th, 2021 at 10:26 PM ^
Matty Patricia for DC.
January 5th, 2021 at 10:36 PM ^
Another branch from the gilded tree of the Patriots organization. History be damned!
January 5th, 2021 at 10:50 PM ^
You'd think by this point that teams would realize that the Pats' success really is due to the coach and Brady, and assuming anyone else is independently worth putting in control is a gamble.
January 5th, 2021 at 11:03 PM ^
And in case you were wondering how bad that job is...
January 5th, 2021 at 11:06 PM ^
Has anyone, outside of Matt Millen, so thoroughly driven a team into the ground like Bill O'Brien?
January 5th, 2021 at 11:07 PM ^
Bob Quinn.
January 5th, 2021 at 11:53 PM ^
The Ford Family, for 63 straight years and counting!
January 6th, 2021 at 12:09 AM ^
Here is one other factor in all of that....
HOU - QB - Deshaun Watson - 25 yrs old
DET - QB Matt Stafford - 32 yrs old
ATL - QB Matt Ryan 35 yrs old
SD- Justin Herbert 22 yrs old
NYJ - nobody Pick #2
JAX - nobody Pick #1
But when you look at the cap space those numbers are not 100% correct because a team can carry over unused cap space from year to year and the Texans had about 8 million left over from this year. That and several contracts that have ZERO Cap hit if the player is released, all of whom could be restructured and clear around 30 million. I know that the Falcons are the only one wh will have to make serious cap decisions. Right now the big question is can the Jets and Falcons find a GM who can make great picks and a coach who can develop a young QB.
January 5th, 2021 at 11:19 PM ^
Jack Easterby strikes again!
January 5th, 2021 at 11:22 PM ^
Link for those unfamiliar: https://www.si.com/nfl/2020/12/10/ex-chaplain-jack-easterby-houston-texans-chaos-after-power-struggle-daily-cover
The usual names led the star-studded guest list for the Super Bowl LIII ring ceremony held at Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s Boston-area mansion in June 2019. Bill Belichick. Tom Brady. Gronk. And there were also two people no one could have predicted would make for a controversial headline soon enough: Jack Easterby and Nick Caserio.
Easterby was returning to New England two months after he was hired by the Texans, joining his colleagues turned rivals on the sprawling backyard lawn set up for the outdoor reception hosted by Kraft. Sometime after the cocktail hour started and before drivers took guests home, Easterby was seen huddled with Caserio, New England’s top personnel executive, long enough to draw attention. Fewer than 24 hours later, back in Houston, Gaine was abruptly fired; the Texans then requested an interview with Caserio. (Gaine declined to comment to SI.). A few days following the dismissal, news broke that the Patriots were filing tampering charges against the Texans for the improper pursuit of Caserio.
January 5th, 2021 at 11:32 PM ^
Man I'm not a Texans fan but as a football fan it's so sad to see Deshaun Watson's talent being wasted. Hopefully they can figure it out
January 6th, 2021 at 9:03 AM ^
The Texans are a mess from an organizational standpoint right now. Bill O'Brien set the franchise back by trading away all their draft picks, they fired one of the best PR people in the NFL, and Jack Easterby is basically given free reign to do whatever he wants.
January 6th, 2021 at 9:47 AM ^
The Patriot Way works because the entire organization was on board starting with the Owner. It works in Pittsburgh for the same reason. That is why some organizations things work very well for a long time.
That said, New England isn't the best talent evaluators esp from a draft standpoint. And the head coach has a way of doing things that works because ownership is on board. If Houston isn't ready to invest a few years into a new coach and get every last person on board it won't work. IE Harbaugh with the 49ers when the GM kept going a different direction with Harbaugh and had ownership going a different direction. Took a perennial Division Champ and SuperBowl caliber team and tanked it.