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O'Brien & His Coaching Staffs

We'll start evaluating tomorrow by talking the current members of the Houston Texans staff. We'll meet with everybody on that staff... personally, I'll meet with every one of those guys and go from there.
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"great teachers, demanding coaches that hold people accountable", as well as men who "know when to go home and see their family".
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Everybody wants to pin you down as 3-4 or 4-3, but we know that about 70% of the time you're in nickel or dime in this league.
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--OB
 
From the chron:

http://blog.chron.com/ultimatetexan...ensive-coordinator-position/?cmpid=sportshcat

New Texans coach Bill O’Brien is interested in hiring Romeo Crennel as his defensive coordinator.

Crennel, 66, didn’t coach this season. He was fired as Kansas City’s head coach after the 2012 season with two years left on his contract.

O’Brien said at his introductory news conference on Friday that he wasn’t ready to determine if he’ll play a 3-4 or a 4-3. He used a 4-3 at Penn State. Crennel is a 3-4 proponent.

The Texans switched from a 4-3 to a 3-4 in 2011 when Wade Phillips became the defensive coordinator. Phillips and the rest of the Texans’ assistants will be interviewed by O’Brien.

If O’Brien is able to lure Crennel back into the coaching fraternity, one of this former New England players thinks it would be a “great” move for the Texans...........
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Hervoyel said:
We could certainly do worse.
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New Texans coach Bill O’Brien is interested in hiring Romeo Crennel as his defensive coordinator.

Crennel, who’s nickname is “Rac,” coached Sports Radio 610 talk show host Ted Johnson on three Super Bowl-winning teams with the Patriots.

“He was our defensive line coach when we lost to Green Bay in the Super Bowl and my defensive coordinator when we won three rings,” Johnson said. “I’m a huge Rac fan. Rac would mean instant credibility. What a great hire that would be.

“Rac’s got so much NFL experience. He’s serious and intense, but he’s still got an easy way about him. He’s just a great coach, a player’s coach. I hope they get him.”
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Ian Rapoport ‏@RapSheet 8h
Still a bit early on Romeo Crennel and the Texans. There is some interest there, we'll see if Romeo wants to get back in. Still getting paid
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anyone know anything about the coach B'OB brought up in his 1 on 1 with drew dougherty saying hopefully he comes to houston with him
 
What I like about the older coordinator and the younger coach is stability. Romeo is 66, he's not looking for another head coaching job. Just like tom moore,lebeau,jimmy johnson(rip) and even capers,they're cool being oc and dc. I hope RAc is the dc. He would do wonder with watt and he also like the big guy in the midle.
 
aussie_texan said:
anyone know anything about the coach B'OB brought up in his 1 on 1 with drew dougherty saying hopefully he comes to houston with him
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Jim Bernhardt was OB's position coach at Brown and his special assistant at Penn State.

Meet Jim Bernhardt, Bill O'Brien's right-hand man, confidant
Consigliere is the word he used,” Bernhardt said, while sitting in his office glancing at his ever-changing to-do list. “My first loyalty and foremost is to Bill O’Brien. Someone might say that sounds like some type of hierarchy or something based on the university, but I do that with a very clear conscience because I know that he’s going to do the right thing.”
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“We’ve always had kind of an older brother, younger brother type of relationship,” Bernhardt recalled. “I facilitated – and if he wasn’t qualified he wouldn’t have gotten it -- I facilitated when he got his first big break at Georgia Tech as a graduate assistant with George O’Leary, who is an old friend. We have that relationship where it’s beyond just working together.”
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“The bottom line is this thing works because he knows I’m never going to lie to him,” Bernhardt said. “He may not like what I say, he may not agree with what I say, but he knows he’ll get an honest answer.”
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Pete Thamel ✔ @SIPeteThamel
Two NFL teams have inquired about hiring Louisville OC Shawn Watson as an OC or QB coach.
10:26 PM - 3 Jan 2014


Boy, wouldn't that be telling if we hired this guy.
 
Allstar said:
Pete Thamel ✔ @SIPeteThamel
Two NFL teams have inquired about hiring inquired about hiring Louisville OC Shawn Watson as an OC or QB coach.
10:26 PM - 3 Jan 2014


Boy, wouldn't that be telling if we hired this guy.
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Two things come to mind:

1. The Titans got Norm Chow to be their offensive coordinator. And when they came up to draft a QB... they chose VY over Matt Leinart. Which was a head-scratcher.

2. The Dolphins got Sherman as their OC from A&M. And then drafted Tannehill in the top-10.

So it would be interesting but it might not be a real indication of what we're going to do.
 
The Pencil Neck said:
Two things come to mind:

1. The Titans got Norm Chow to be their offensive coordinator. And when they came up to draft a QB... they chose VY over Matt Leinart. Which was a head-scratcher.

2. The Dolphins got Sherman as their OC from A&M. And then drafted Tannehill in the top-10.

So it would be interesting but it might not be a real indication of what we're going to do.
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True, but Watson and Bridgewater almost consider themselves family. Teddy calls him a basically a father IIRC. Also, I believe the story was that Bud ordered the VY pick when Fisher voted against it.
 
mussop said:
It's rumored ray Horton could go. Any interest in him?
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I think the only way Horton leaves Cleveland is to be a head coach somewhere. He only left the cardinals because he didn't get the hc job and Arians had his own guy to be dc. Not to mention Horton was pretty upset he didn't get the job.
 
Alex Marvez ‏@alexmarvez 6m
Source tells @FOXSports new #texans HC Bill O'Brien has fired all assistants from prior coaching staff & will name Romeo Crennel def coor
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BOB:" Good morning gentlemen"

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While Romeo holds the door open...
 
TexansFight said:
I just was informed that O'Brien fired everyone. Complete housecleaning! I am so in love with Bill O'Brien.
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I liked step one: fire entire existing staff

Step two concerns me: hire all his old Patriot buddies only? Or at least hire some new blood he is interested in.
 
DX-TEX said:
Step two concerns me: hire all his old Patriot buddies only? Or at least hire some new blood he is interested in.
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Hire guys you know through experience can/will do what you want how you want it done. If I get my first HC job, my assistants will all be my trusted friends/cronies... guys I've gone into battle with.

As I've said elsewhere, you hire a guy you trust and let him do his job, build his staff, run his team. If you don't trust him, why did you hire him?
 
Norg said:
Tell them to bring in a NEW GM has well :P

might has well make a clean sweep Clean all the past cancer away
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He doesn't seem to be a cancer to BOB. He has nothing but good things to say about Smith and McNair.
 
Good news as far as I'm concerned. Wish them both luck (far away from Houston). :breakdance:
 
Bill O'Brien ‏@NotCoachOBrien 3m
Wade Phillips was a difficult convo. Not hard to do, but he mumbled through the whole talk. Still many bullets left in the chamber. #Texans
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lol
 
TexansFight said:
I just was informed that O'Brien fired everyone. Complete housecleaning! I am so in love with Bill O'Brien.
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Conflicting (to some extent) information from McClain:

New Texans coach Bill O’Brien spent more than half a day meeting with assistants who worked under Gary Kubiak and ended up firing two coordinators and six positions coaches.

O’Brien, who has more meetings scheduled Monday morning with the rest of Kubiak’s assistants, is expected to keep assistant head coach/defensive line Bill Kollar.
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TheIronDuke said:
Dude, maybe you don't know near as much as you think you do?
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So I'm wrong once in a while. Why don't you drag up my posts where I said we weren't going to hire Cowher or Chucky as our HC? Or maybe where I said we wouldn't fire Kubiak before the end of the season?


I just didn't think it was going to happen (& technically, it hasn't). They both worked for the Patriots, but at different times. For all we know, they don't know each other.
 
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Alex Marvez ‏@alexmarvez
One more Godsey-O'Brien tie: O'Brien was Georgia Tech's offensive coordinator when Godsey played QB there

Like Brian Ferentz, Godsey was on same @Patriots coaching staff under O'Brien when he was OC there (CONT)

As for offensive coordinator, keep an eye on @Patriots TE coach George Godsey (CONT)

Brian Ferentz, son of Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz, was @Patriots assistant from 2009 to 2011. Started as offensive assistant, left as TE coach

I'm hearing @HoustonTexans already have strong candidate for new o-line coach that may be done deal: Brian Ferentz from University of Iowa
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Not exactly liking that we're going with the "Patriots Way" considering how much I hate Boston Sports, so let's hope whatever this guy does ends up replicating the winning and not their loathsome, insufferable doucheosity.
 
Playoffs said:
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Alex Marvez ‏@alexmarvez
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One more Godsey-O'Brien tie: O'Brien was Georgia Tech's offensive coordinator when Godsey played QB there

Like Brian Ferentz, Godsey was on same @Patriots coaching staff under O'Brien when he was OC there (CONT)

As for offensive coordinator, keep an eye on @Patriots TE coach George Godsey (CONT)

Brian Ferentz, son of Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz, was @Patriots assistant from 2009 to 2011. Started as offensive assistant, left as TE coach

I'm hearing @HoustonTexans already have strong candidate for new o-line coach that may be done deal: Brian Ferentz from University of Iowa



That would give the Texans a very inexperienced offensive coaching staff (NFL).
 
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