That's hilarious coming from you!!How many pts did the South score in an all star game?
The hate here is just incredible.
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That's hilarious coming from you!!How many pts did the South score in an all star game?
The hate here is just incredible.
That's hilarious coming from you!!
It's hilarious because of the vitriol from you over the years about RS and BM. I say a very strong case can be made that Watson made OB look great, not the other way around. I am onboard with keeping OB, as I strongly dislike upheavals at HC, but let's not label him an offensive guru just yet.What do people expect from BOB?
Points in an all star game. Lol
I mean the man did avg 35 points per game with Watson in there. Behind a subpar OL. Let's get Watson back, fix the OL and then make a decision on BOB in a couple of years after the mess Ricky made is cleaned up.
I'm just glad McNair agrees with me.
It's hilarious because of the vitriol from you over the years about RS and BM. I say a very strong case can be made that Watson made OB look great, not the other way around. I am onboard with keeping OB, as I strongly dislike upheavals at HC, but let's not label him an offensive guru just yet.
Meh. My thoughts on OB are well known.some of you guys have seen waterboy too many times in that you must literally think BoB was this guy the whole time DW4 was playing.
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All DW4 did was acknowledge that he learned alot from BoB and that he wasn't this stooge that you guys think he was; which in essence means that hey this guy probably can coach a little bit. Likewise, just b/c DW4 said that doesn't automatically mean the opposite either. He was never considered an offensive guru by anyone before or after his hire & I've literally only ever heard people reference BoB as that on this forum.
It's hilarious because of the vitriol from you over the years about RS and BM. I say a very strong case can be made that Watson made OB look great, not the other way around. I am onboard with keeping OB, as I strongly dislike upheavals at HC, but let's not label him an offensive guru just yet.
I'm not labeling BOB an offensive guru.
But with Watson his offense was avg 35 pts per game and people are thinking he w
because when the Texans get a lead Kubiak would've gone into full turtle mode.
Bill O'Brien should be on his knees blowing Deshaun Watson every day for getting him a contract extension. Literally the only reason this loser is still around is because the guy we're pinning our entire franchise on going forward gave him his endorsement.
It's funny that Deshaun Watson thinks he's so great when Bill O'Brien didn't even have the nuts to trust him late in two of the what, seven games the guy played in this year.
But hey, whatever man. Who am I to question The Guru.
Great post, Donald Trump! "Bill O'Brien's a loser. He should be fired. He must be having oral sex with the star QB because that's the only way he kept his job". What's next? O'Brien colluded with the Russians?!?!
Several sources have been guilty of perpetuating the "guru" tag for O'Brien:
O'Brien is a quarterback guru of sorts, and this draft is brimming with quarterback talent. Don't look at his time with New England; he was the quarterback coach and coordinator there, but he arrived after Tom Brady already was established as one of the best quarterbacks in league history. Instead, look what he did in the past two seasons at Penn State, where he turned journeyman Matt McGloin into an NFL player in one year, then helped Christian Hackenberg become the best freshman quarterback in the nation in 2013. Source - NFL.com
Although none of the top signal-callers in the 2014 NFL draft class has looked spectacular to date, one has to wonder what a reputed QB guru like O'Brien could have done with one of them if the Texans went that route. Source - Bleacher Report
And O’Brien’s stature as a quarterback guru makes Fisher redundant on a staff that could better use a high-octane young recruiter. Source - Pennlive.com
Like last season, quarterback gurus are in high demand, from Jim Caldwell in the Motor City to Ken Whisenhunt in Rocky Top. In our nation's capital, Robert Griffin III has been paired with Jay Gruden while Tom Brady's former tutor, Bill O'Brien, has been tasked with fixing Houston's quarterback mess. Source - NFL.com
Beyond O’Brien’s reputation as an offensive guru — he was a coordinator for Bill Belichick and Tom Brady in New England — there was resonance in the pitch, even if O’Brien would soon bail on it. Source - The New York Times
Fortunately for Bortles, however, new Texans coach Bill O'Brien has earned his reputation as a quarterback guru, having developed Matt McGloin and Christian Hackenberg at Penn State. Source- Bleacher Report
The Nittany Lions also have another blue-chip recruit at quarterback committed to play for head coach and quarterbacks guru Bill O'Brien next season. Source - Scranton Times-Tribune
Sure, there is a lot of “coach speak” in there and the quote is based off one performance, but players like Bortles aren't often forgotten by offensive gurus like O'Brien. Source - CBS Sports
Probably why i hadn't heard or seen him called an offensive guru anywhere...i don't read that kind of tripe b/c most of these are just clickbait articles from Penn State homers and NFL parrots who only really remember and saw him from his days in NE with Brady.
Come to think of it, Deshaun Watson probably doesnt succeed if it isnt for Bill "Buttchin" O'Brien. LOL![]()
The only sport I pay any attention to is the NFL, so I tend to read/watch more stuff about the league than maybe I should. I remember when they hired O'Brien and he was being called a QB and/or offensive 'guru'.
I, like most Texans fans, knew nothing about the man, so our heads were filled with all this rhetoric. My point was that Texans fans that mention it are not really at fault when the sports media created the narrative, and they still try to perpetuate it to this day. I have seen him recently called a 'guru' on NFL Network many times, especially when Watson was lighting it up for five games.
I have never understood why he was ever called this and what evidence the media/press uses to support it. But, maybe it's just an echo chamber and most of those talking heads just regurgitate instead of actually providing objective critical thinking.
After signing a 4 year extension? I'd think it would be a winter 2020 pink slip at the earliest.1. Bill Belichick(NE): Career Record: 250-118 (.679) | Last Year’s Ranking: 1
2. Pete Carroll(SEA): Career Record: 112-79-1 (.586) | Last Year’s Ranking: 2
3. Andy Reid(KC): Career Record: 183-120-1 (.604) | Last Year’s Ranking: 3
4. Mike Tomlin(PIT): Career Record: 116-60 (.659) | Last Year’s Ranking: 4
5. Doug Pederson(PHI): Career Record: 20-12 (.625) | Last Year’s Ranking: 23
6. John Harbaugh(BAL): Career Record: 94-66 (.588) | Last Year’s Ranking: 6
7. Ron Rivera(CAR): Career Record: 64-47-1 (.576) | Last Year’s Ranking: 9
8. Mike Zimmer(MIN): Career Record: 39-25 (.609) | Last Year’s Ranking: 15
9. Sean McVay(LA): Career Record: 11-5 (.688) | Last Year’s Ranking: — —
10. Mike McCarthy(GB): Career Record: 121-70-1 (.633) | Last Year’s Ranking: 6
11. Sean Payton(NO): Career Record: 105-71 (.597) | Last Year’s Ranking: 11
12. Dan Quinn(ATL): Career Record: 29-19 (.604) | Last Year’s Ranking: 13
13. Doug Marrone(JAC): Career Record: 26-24 (.520) | Last Year’s Ranking: — —
14. Kyle Shanahan(SF): Career Record: 6-10 (.375) | Last Year’s Ranking: — —
15. Bill O’Brien(HOU): Career Record: 31-33 (.484) | Last Year’s Ranking: 7
Bill O’Brien climbed the 9-7 ladder his first three years on the job. 9-7 No. 1 finished outside the playoffs. 9-7 No. 2 qualified but didn’t get a win. 9-7 No. 3 beat the injured Raiders in the Wild Card round before hanging with the Patriots in the Divisional. This all happened with seven different starting quarterbacks. For 2017, O’Brien got his eighth and best signal caller. Deshaun Watson took the league by storm, appearing to be O’Brien’s missing piece. After he was lost for the season with a Week 9 practice injury, the Texans won only one more game. It was an overdue wake-up call for a team seemingly always on the brink of disaster. To an unusual degree, O’Brien’s (moderate) success has depended on a soft division. That’s not a sustainable formula. The Colts and Titans are under new management. The Jaguars are a quarterback away from being one of the three-best teams in football. O’Brien’s defense, which has mostly carried his offense, has been weakened by injury and free agency. It’s paramount that O’Brien do a better job on his side of the ball. Watson could be the 2018 ticket. If not, O’Brien’s volatile tenure might end with a winter 2019 pink slip.
16. Jason Garrett(DAL): Career Record: 67-53 (.558) | Last Year’s Ranking: 12
17. Adam Gase(MIA): Career Record: 16-16 (.500) | Last Year’s Ranking: 10
18. Marvin Lewis(CIN): Career Record: 125-112-3 (.527) | Last Year’s Ranking: 14
19. Jay Gruden(WAS): Career Record: 28-35-1 (.445) | Last Year’s Ranking: 16
20. Anthony Lynn(LA): Career Record: 9-8 (.529) | Last Year’s Ranking: — —
21. Sean McDermott(BUF): Career Record: 9-7 (.563) | Last Year’s Ranking: — —
22. Todd Bowles(NYJ): Career Record: 22-29 (.431) | Last Year’s Ranking: 25
23. Vance Joseph(DEN): Career Record: 5-11 (.313) | Last Year’s Ranking: — —
24. Dirk Koetter(TB): Career Record: 14-18 (.438) | Last Year’s Ranking: 17
25. Hue Jackson(CLE): Career Record: 9-39 (.188) | Last Year’s Ranking: 19
http://www.rotoworld.com/articles/nfl/78295/57/nfls-best-coaches-2018?sf183640369=1
After signing a 4 year extension? I'd think it would be a winter 2020 pink slip at the earliest.
Stopped reading after that. “Beat the injured Raiders”? Really?! So, the Texans were rolling on all cylinders? We had the worst Quarterback in the league, a rookie WR with drop issues, offense had ZERO chemistry, Watt was out with severe back injury, and you have the audacity to downplay that win? Wow. Also, if it wasn’t for the two drops in the end zone (Fuller and Fiedorowicz) and Brock passing the ball to wide open defenders we would probably have beaten the Patriots in their house in a close game.Bill O’Brien climbed the 9-7 ladder his first three years on the job. 9-7 No. 1 finished outside the playoffs. 9-7 No. 2 qualified but didn’t get a win. 9-7 No. 3 beat the injured Raiders in the Wild Card round before hanging with the Patriots in the Divisional. This all happened with seven different starting quarterbacks. For 2017, O’Brien got his eighth and best signal caller. Deshaun Watson took the league by storm, appearing to be O’Brien’s missing piece. After he was lost for the season with a Week 9 practice injury, the Texans won only one more game. It was an overdue wake-up call for a team seemingly always on the brink of disaster. To an unusual degree, O’Brien’s (moderate) success has depended on a soft division. That’s not a sustainable formula. The Colts and Titans are under new management. The Jaguars are a quarterback away from being one of the three-best teams in football. O’Brien’s defense, which has mostly carried his offense, has been weakened by injury and free agency. It’s paramount that O’Brien do a better job on his side of the ball. Watson could be the 2018 ticket.
http://www.rotoworld.com/articles/nfl/78295/57/nfls-best-coaches-2018?sf183640369=1
You're only an injured team if you lose your starting QB to injury. Multiple DPOY injuries don't count.Stopped reading after that. “Beat the injured Raiders”? Really?! So, the Texans were rolling on all cylinders? We had the worst Quarterback in the league, a rookie WR with drop issues, offense had ZERO chemistry, Watt was out with severe back injury, and you have the audacity to downplay that win? Wow. Also, if it wasn’t for the two drops in the end zone (Fuller and Fiedorowicz) and Brock passing the ball to wide open defenders we would probably have beaten the Patriots in their house in a close game.
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https://twitter.com/BenDuBose/status/971091883610050560
Stopped reading after that. “Beat the injured Raiders”? Really?! So, the Texans were rolling on all cylinders? We had the worst Quarterback in the league, a rookie WR with drop issues, offense had ZERO chemistry, Watt was out with severe back injury, and you have the audacity to downplay that win? Wow. Also, if it wasn’t for the two drops in the end zone (Fuller and Fiedorowicz) and Brock passing the ball to wide open defenders we would probably have beaten the Patriots in their house in a close game.
And that's after so many of his negative pieces directed towards O'Brien.Donated 1000 dollars to the Patdstat Gofundme page
https://twitter.com/BenDuBose/status/971091883610050560
Stopped reading after that. “Beat the injured Raiders”? Really?! So, the Texans were rolling on all cylinders? We had the worst Quarterback in the league, a rookie WR with drop issues, offense had ZERO chemistry, Watt was out with severe back injury, and you have the audacity to downplay that win? Wow. Also, if it wasn’t for the two drops in the end zone (Fuller and Fiedorowicz) and Brock passing the ball to wide open defenders we would probably have beaten the Patriots in their house in a close game.
I don't think you can call it rhetoric DB. If you had players coming out in the media saying slick **** or guys opening up a big can of quit on the field ala Ben McAdoo in NYG I would agree with you but that wasn't the case. The players continued to fight & back that dude. & as cliché as it is for players to back their coach publically, those guys know man. There's only so much you can do with limited talent.
We need the national media to lite a fire. We need the local media to start that fire.
The Texans have Deshaun Watson, Lamar Miller, Deandre Hopkins, Will Fuller, Nick Martin, JJ Watt, Jadeveon Clowney, Whitney Mercilus, Bernardrick McKinney, Zach Cunningham, Jonathan Joseph, Tyraan Mathieu, Kareem Jackson and (at times) Kevin Johnson but yeah, talent is the ******* problem.
Bingo, and Bob's the same guy that just gave OB the "new" 5 year deal and let him help bring in a buddy for GM. How did that work out the last time McNair let his coach bring in a buddy for GM. Like I said days ago, I had great confidence he would screw up again. But guess what. Next year when they go no further than they ever have, they'll be patting themselves on the back, along with tex of course, if they have more than 4 wins. This year was to reset the bar super low so we can start this pathetic cycle all over again.
And it's coming folks, get ready for trash time, just like today's last drive. With that 4 year extension it isn't going to take much for us to all see this again next year.
O Brien needs to let us throw the ball a lot. Doing the opponent a favor running it into the line. We have no run game.
Heaven's no, I'm just happy to be proven right about how foolish that extension for OB was.Cole Thornton u still mad cause I shitted on your trash takes?
The Texans have Deshaun Watson, Lamar Miller, Deandre Hopkins, Will Fuller, Nick Martin, JJ Watt, Jadeveon Clowney, Whitney Mercilus, Bernardrick McKinney, Zach Cunningham, Jonathan Joseph, Tyraan Mathieu, Kareem Jackson and (at times) Kevin Johnson but yeah, talent is the ******* problem.
DW4= Talented but still learning
Lamar Miller = I been saying he was Garbo
Nuk= great
Fuller= Been saying he was good despite the brigade here shitting on him
Martin = average
JJ Watt= got a few more years left
Clowney= Great...when he wants to play and isn’t hurt
Mercy= mediocre
McKinney = mediocre..could’ve been great in the league before it became a 7 on 7 track meet
Cunningham..never liked this pick and he’s terrible in coverage...even though he’s supposed to be our coverage LB
Joseph..old, barely hanging on
Matthieu = good
KJ= very good now that he’s in a position that best utilizes his skill set
Kevin Johnson= bust
Some talent..not as much as we all thought though...
Enough talent to not be 0-3 with better coaching. The 0-1 Titans with a rookie coach used us to turn things around and so did the 0-2 Giants with a rookie coach in our building. This thing is starting to come unraveled and OB has no one to blame but himself.
Enough talent to not be 0-3 with better coaching. The 0-1 Titans with a rookie coach used us to turn things around and so did the 0-2 Giants with a rookie coach in our building. This thing is starting to come unraveled and OB has no one to blame but himself.
And that will make the Texan's opponents 1-5 this year not counting their wins against us... OB is 8-24 against teams that finished the season with a winning record and so far this season he can't even take out the trash.Patriots fixing to be 1-2 with the greatest coach of all-time going against a rookie head coach. It's not always about the coach
edit: They are... and that's also with the GOAT QB
The Texans have Deshaun Watson, Lamar Miller, Deandre Hopkins, Will Fuller, Nick Martin, JJ Watt, Jadeveon Clowney, Whitney Mercilus, Bernardrick McKinney, Zach Cunningham, Jonathan Joseph, Tyraan Mathieu, Kareem Jackson and (at times) Kevin Johnson but yeah, talent is the ******* problem.
"you have a coaching problem, as well as a player problem"