Cletus was born on 3rd base and thinks he hit a homerun.
He could care less about winning on the field. He care alot about the social circle he runs in
Cal does care about winning at the bank. The old man set him up well in that regard.
Most fans understand you don't build your team through FA, but you use it to augment your drafting decisions. Unfortunately throughout the last decade, Texans have failed consistently at producing mid tier talent that can be used as departing FA replacement or as in season depth replacement. We've hit pure gold several times at the top end (Hopkins, AJ, Watt), and have had some critical later/UDFA success (Foster). This has lead our roster to being extremely thin and always short at a key position or two. Not everyone has to be an All-Pro, but if you have a severe weakness, or multiple severe flaws on your team, when the competition gets tough (Playoffs), you will repeatedly be exposed.
We are always chasing the last hot thing, started out with Capers and if IIRC (Google makes you seem smart, but anyone can Ctrl C + Ctrl V so I may be wrong, but
I think he had expansion team experience) , then moved to the Kubiak era and chased the Broncos success, briefly wanted a tough Ravens team (Thanks Ed!) and after that wanted a little bit of Patriots koolaid). I think what our esteemed owner(s) are forgetting is its the architect (GM) and not the contractor (coach) who makes sure the building is structurally sound. We've never had an Ozzie Smith or Ron Wolf. Hell, I would've even taken a swing at the Drunkard GM (McCloughen or something) responsible for the 49ers and Redskins - sure he'd of missed a few calls because he was passed out and showed up to work reeking of booze every now and then, but even with his beer goggles on he could read his draft board. After bottoming out and getting the top 5 picks several times, you'd think we would of wanted a proven GM with talent for finding talent (a la Dorsey) but instead are BB Disciple island. If only you could run up the middle for 2 yards in the off-season and roll those yards over like your old cell phone plan...
At least we went out and found a stud offensive coordinator to assist in our teams development after the OC last year failed so badly, such as a Norv Turner, instead of promoting someone in house with utmost loyalty to BoB and the same teachings/philosophy. Even if they did not go for a proven guy who has seen it all, they could of gone after some fresh guy with maybe some new ideas from another team/outside eyes. I actually like our new QB coach, the hire makes sense - I almost would've preferred him in the OC role with heavy emphasis with QB development instead. (I abhor our OC promotion)
At least the
Browns showed last year that fans over rate coaching anyways, its not like
Freddie Kitchens was any improvement over Hue Jackson when it came to wins at the end of the year anyways. (/s, Browns went from 1-4 under Jackson to 5-3 under Kitchens, who changed the offense to highlight Mayfields strengths. Mayfield went from Jeff Fisher Jared Goff to Mcvay Jared Goff, (oh look another example) and the team used the $ from Goffs rookie contract to go from swimming with the Fish(er) to the NFC Championship game, where coaching once again was on display (BB vs the Golden Boy, BB delivered
another HoF display worthy game plan)
EDITS: Clarification on some thoughts.
Also, I'm not 100% against the coach. I just feel there is a dysfunction on coaching staff decisions. Maybe ownership does not give the budget for a strong staff?
