I get what you're saying, but in our collective defense, we are strictly looking at him from a football perspective.
Nobody questions his business acumen. I have no doubt that Houston Texans, Inc. will continue to be a highly profitable entertainment business. There's that MBA from Rice working.
However, Daddy fired Gary before the season was over, too. Nothing new under the sun.
What Bob McNair did NOT do is hand the keys of the entire franchise over to Kubiak and basically abdicate his own responsibilities as an owner.
Firing O'Brien was just Cal cleaning up his own mess.
And now there's the Jack Easterby influence.
And Watson in the FO?? Bob would probably think that not only are the inmates running the asylum, but now they are hiring the warden and guards, too!
As far as pancakes, there is a reason why he's so football smart that he's never worked for an NFL team. It's much easier to write about it than actually do it. Heck, this entire forum is predicated on that basic concept.
I've heard enough of McClain over the years to know he's talking out of his butt about a quarter of the time. The rest is just basic stuff and history, which is fun, but not necessarily required to run a successful football franchise. His defensive attitude about some current things with the Texans is a clear bias that he wants to stay in their good graces, so he's certainly not going to rock the boat by being an actual, y'know, investigative reporter asking the tough questions. He's just one of Cal's little lapdogs now.