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Wow I’m done. This dysfunctional stuff will not end. I knew this joker wanted full control over every freaking thing. Great job Cal.
"They led us to a 10-win season, another division title and into the divisional round." ~ Cal McNair
So predictable!!. . .
Yep, nothing like having the ol smoke blown up your ass!
"They led us to a 10-win season, another division title and into the divisional round." ~ Cal McNair
So predictable!!. . .
this is an astounding level of ego. there are coaches we know run things, but none of them need that title. this guy does. https://t.co/vGR29ONTat
— bomani (@bomani_jones) January 28, 2020
In no way does the GM title assigned to O'Brien preclude Caserio coming here............another complementary title will easily be created if need be.More on the #Texans: The promotion of Bill O’Brien to GM further solidifies that Nick Caserio won’t be in Houston… Plus, Romeo Crennel stays on staff in a key role on defense, source says.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) January 28, 2020
Why would he want to come here for a lesser role? Unless...In no way does the GM title assigned to O'Brien preclude Caserio coming here............another complementary title will easily be created if need be.
I'm getting back to my pre-Texans NFL routine and following other teams more closely. I'm a fan of Andy Reid and Mahommes and a fan of San Francisco since The Catch, so I'm completely confused on who to pull for in the Super Bowl.Man, those cowboys are looking better and better.
I cant stand OB.
I got two man crushes right now. Mahomes and Burrow.I'm getting back to my pre-Texans NFL routine and following other teams more closely. I'm a fan of Andy Reid and Mahommes and a fan of San Francisco since The Catch, so I'm completely confused on who to pull for in the Super Bowl.
Feel yeah good buddy. I live in Austin area. Chose red zone channel over season ticketsSo I've made the conscious decision that next year, I will stay in the parking lot, tailgating, with a generator to power a TV in which I will watch the game. No need to buy any drinks or food. Just hang out and enjoy the environment. Maybe I'll go in if I want to. Maybe I'll go in for a quarter and come out. I don't know! It's a new world of adventure for me. All I know is that I better get comfy because this thing is going to go on for at least 2 more years. I'm over in the Platinum lot. Come say hi.
I hope that more of us season ticket holders start doing the same thing. It's going to be a PR nightmare if everyone stays in the lot, but doesn't go into the stadium. As we have discussed, getting rid of your season tickets does no good, BUT if you have 50k people in the lot and 10k in the stadium, that's going to say a lot. A guy can dream...right? I'm going to go lay down.
Tell your friend to get with me. I want to sell 2 tickets in 114. Bill Obrien is officially the GM now.Yep. Waiting list is over 30,000 the last time I heard about it. I have a friend that's been on it for 7+ years.
Good points, man. I kinda' look at this forum as an 'emotional support group' for guys crazy enough to love this game and this team.
Most fans are apathetic about the Texans right now. It's the off-season, time to move on to other forms of entertainment.
We are the nuts crazy enough to care and talk about this stuff 365 days of the year. We probably have some kind of collective mild psychosis.
Yep.
I think for a lot of Houston football fans, it's the accumulated frustration of 5+ decades of futility. This city has never even hosted a conference championship game, much less had a team that won it.
Yeah, it could definitely be worse. I don't know how Cleveland fans do it year in and year out.
But, it could also be better. Which, I guess, is why we seem to be glutton for punishment every new football season. Charlie Brown hoping to finally kick that football.
What we can't lose sight of is that it's just spectator entertainment. We should appreciate each others company and passion, even when disagreeing. Y'all are the only ones that I can chat about football in the spring, and I like having a place to go to. Y'all are the only ones that can truly comprehend that fan frustration about this particular brand of spectator entertainment.
This is not as far fetched as you might think. You can make a lot of noise through social media. There are thousands of people who think the same thing.So I've made the conscious decision that next year, I will stay in the parking lot, tailgating, with a generator to power a TV in which I will watch the game. No need to buy any drinks or food. Just hang out and enjoy the environment. Maybe I'll go in if I want to. Maybe I'll go in for a quarter and come out. I don't know! It's a new world of adventure for me. All I know is that I better get comfy because this thing is going to go on for at least 2 more years. I'm over in the Platinum lot. Come say hi.
I hope that more of us season ticket holders start doing the same thing. It's going to be a PR nightmare if everyone stays in the lot, but doesn't go into the stadium. As we have discussed, getting rid of your season tickets does no good, BUT if you have 50k people in the lot and 10k in the stadium, that's going to say a lot. A guy can dream...right? I'm going to go lay down.
OB just threw draft picks at other teams. Hopefully Tunsil can get his head out of his gas mask and quit committing so many dang penalties. Stills has been a welcome addition. Not sure what to make of Hyde. With Devlin coaching the OL, it's hard to judge the offense.Neither has BOB.
Hopefully he's willing to pay Suh this year around the 13 mil he got last yr. Great/Good players get paid.
Wow I’m done. This dysfunctional stuff will not end. I knew this joker wanted full control over every freaking thing. Great job Cal.
I’ll always support the Texans because Texas is my original home and birthplace (the Cowboys don’t count). However I admittedly support them from a distance now, especially after moving to Florida and that distance grew a bit further with this announcement.
I just don’t care for the man and now it’s Team O’Brien. On the bright side this isn’t the Oilers because I would still have that emotional attachment. The Texans just aren’t my problem anymore. I follow enough dysfunction as it is over here in Tampa Bay.
OB just threw draft picks at other teams. Hopefully Tunsil can get his head out of his gas mask and quit committing so many dang penalties. Stills has been a welcome addition. Not sure what to make of Hyde. With Devlin coaching the OL, it's hard to judge the offense.
Just means then if/when he is fired, this ensures that it will be a full house cleaning.
About time, what took so long?
Cleaning up the scouting side of the mess RS left.
Or better yet, start blaming them both (with more of the blame going to management/ownership). O'Brien is who he is. It's well documented. We know he isn't going anywhere and he is just being himself. He only has the power in the organization because of the ownership and management allows him to. The real problem is that as fans, we never hold the organization accountable. Bob and Janice and now Cal are the people who can change our head coach and GM, not O'Brien.
I know this is a bit of an oversimplification, but the ownership (or the management that the owners put in place) has made all the decisions that have kept us in mediocrity. Say what you will about Kubiak, but he with Peyton Manning won a SB. Do you think that if we took a chance on Manning (reports said he wanted to come here) we wouldn't have made it further than we did? I know someone is going to tell me that Kubiak didn't want Manning. Well, competent ownership/management would have brought in Manning and told Kubes to make it work or hit the bricks. The ownership and management should have more vision for the organization than the HC.
Upset that we let Lil' Shanny or Vrabel go? This too is a management/ownership problem. Mad that Brian Gaine didn't lock up Clowney or didn't move up for Dillard? This too is on management/ownership.
TL;DR - Blame O'Brien all you want, he has made countless mistakes. He's not held accountable by the power structure above him. Based on what I have seen out of this organization, we could reincarnate Bill Walsh and we would still suck because our membership/ownership group is inept and will always turn sugar into s***.
OB now has the title of "General Manager". In honor of this, a new Netflix series "Lost in the NFL" will premier next year based on the exploits of Admiral OB. In the first episode, Admiral OB encounters a dangerous space alien and loses the yellow challenge battle. As a result, he dies, but suddenly reappears each episode with new titles and medals. There will be no season ending cliffhangers in this series as each season will always have the same ending.
Man, this kind of reaction - head's are going to explode next week when Cal announces BoB is now part owner... BOOM! Mic Drop, and back away...
Tell your friend to get with me. I want to sell 2 tickets in 114. Bill Obrien is officially the GM now.
For a guy that was not aligned with Rick Smith, BOB sure learned "how to gain the trust of the ownership family while being JAG at my core job" quite well.Will OB doesn't have all the power, he still needs to replace RS as the Godson of Cal's kid. Stay tuned.
Maybe the lunch ladies were the ones behind O’Brien’s incompetent play calling, and brain farts after the 24-0 lead against the Chiefs? Think about it. Six years of malnourishment have obviously taken a toll on such a great mind. Fire them hawws!Definitely not the firing we wanted to see. But I wasn't expecting so many.
Someone was definitely not happy with the way the season turned out.
Maybe the lunch ladies were the ones behind O’Brien’s incompetent play calling, and brain farts after the 24-0 lead against the Chiefs? Think about it. Six years of malnourishment have obviously taken a toll on such a great mind. Fire them hawws!
Eh, I have no desire to get into a semantical argument. There are very few knowledgeable football fans outside of this MB who would call the Texans a middling to below average or a poor quality team. They would most certainly consider them inconsistent, not playing to their potential and seemingly unprepared come playoff time, which are extremely frustrating attributes, but they would laugh if you tried to convince them that failing to get out of the divisional playoff game was considered a mediocre season by a mediocre team. 75% of the NFL had already ended their season by that weekend.
"We are a bad playoff team" seems like such a first world problem to many NFL franchises.
Haven't read beyond this in the thread …. but a point I'd like to make:
Expectations play a large part of how we feel at the end of a season.
If we go into a season with low expectations and meet or exceed them , great - how can we do better going forward ?
If we go into a season with high expectations and fail to reach them - the sky is falling.
I don't believe many had the expectations I did going into the season - 12-4 and a top 2 seed. They had their chances twice to make that top 2 seed happen - against the Ravens and again against Denver.
The Ravens put a whoopin on them … and I don't think any of us expected them to win in Baltimore.
They are a clearly better team than the Bronco's …. and flopped. May have been their worst performance of the year.
When your expectations are they are one of the 4 best teams in the league …. you expect better than we got in an embarrassing , historical loss on the road in the divisional round.
I believe this team has a lot of talent , what I don't believe is that OB is getting the most out of that talent.
I felt let down (again) …. especially after being up 28-0.
For a guy that was not aligned with Rick Smith, BOB sure learned "how to gain the trust of the ownership family while being JAG at my core job" quite well.
I fully understand your point but now think about how it feels to be a Ravens fan. Number 1 seed, MVP QB, good defense, unstoppable offense and a win streak of what like 10 games. You slap around every team that might be considered you rival and then in your first playoff game you get beat by a team that barely squeaked into the playoffs because the Texans used that game as a rest game. So yeah on the "felt let down" scale the Texans were a 5-6 to the Ravens 9-10 for me. Maybe that's why I'm more forgiving of the melt down than most on here.
Ravens fans have trophies in the case. They have renewed hope every season because they have experienced it multiple times. Their coaches, staff, and players come to work every day and see those two beautiful, shiny silver trophies in the foyer. They have a standard set by previous teams and fans should have high expectations. History means something. It just does. Retired players and coaches talk about it on NFL Films.
Houston, on the other hand. . .well, we've got the chokes.![]()