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Finally: Romeo Crennel Hired as DC

JB said:
Still trying to learn what hires? I have seen nothing official except the announcement that Kollar would be retained
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They're assumed hires. A bunch of people that were on O'Brien's staff submitted their resignations to PSU. It's hardly a stretch to assume they'll be hired by the Texans. Some of them are defensive coaches.
 
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paycheck71 said:
They're assumed hires. A bunch of people that were on O'Brien's staff submitted their resignations to PSU. It's hardly a stretch to assume they'll be hired by the Texans. Some of them are defensive coaches.
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Thanks, and they probably will but all we have at this point are rumors and assumptions?

They could have left PSU just because they were just as sick of the JoePa supporters crap as BOB was

My point is that sometimes these assumptions take over and become as fact long before anything is really known.

remember that to assume is making an ass of u and me
 
I thought he had already hired some defensive coaches from Penn State. I guess the only one was Butler. My bad on the assumption.
 
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Romeo Crennel interviewing this morning for Texans defensive coordinator job
Posted on January 8, 2014 at 10:02 am by John McClain in General
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Romeo Crennel did not coach during the 2013 season. (Chris Graythen/Getty Images)New Texans coach Bill O’Brien is interviewing Romeo Crennel this morning to become his first defensive coordinator.

Crennel, 66, has been pursued by O’Brien since O’Brien was hired by the Texans last week.

Crennel, who won five Super Bowl titles as an assistant with the Giants and Patriots, didn’t work this season after being fired as Kansas
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CloakNNNdagger said:
McClain:
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Romeo Crennel interviewing this morning for Texans defensive coordinator job
Posted on January 8, 2014 at 10:02 am by John McClain in General
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Romeo Crennel did not coach during the 2013 season. (Chris Graythen/Getty Images)New Texans coach Bill O’Brien is interviewing Romeo Crennel this morning to become his first defensive coordinator.

Crennel, 66, has been pursued by O’Brien since O’Brien was hired by the Texans last week.

Crennel, who won five Super Bowl titles as an assistant with the Giants and Patriots, didn’t work this season after being fired as Kansas
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:d: :kingkong: :d: :kingkong:
dammit Heart!
STOP that!!!

Must.
not.
get.
hopes.
up.
AGAIN!
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
McClain:

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Romeo Crennel interviewing this morning for Texans defensive coordinator job
Posted on January 8, 2014 at 10:02 am by John McClain in General
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Romeo Crennel did not coach during the 2013 season. (Chris Graythen/Getty Images)New Texans coach Bill O’Brien is interviewing Romeo Crennel this morning to become his first defensive coordinator.

Crennel, 66, has been pursued by O’Brien since O’Brien was hired by the Texans last week.

Crennel, who won five Super Bowl titles as an assistant with the Giants and Patriots, didn’t work this season after being fired as Kansas
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Romeo is undoubtedly a large man, but I'm pretty sure he has never been employed as the state of Kansas.
 
JB said:
Thanks, and they probably will but all we have at this point are rumors and assumptions?

They could have left PSU just because they were just as sick of the JoePa supporters crap as BOB was

My point is that sometimes these assumptions take over and become as fact long before anything is really known.

remember that to assume is making an ass of u and me
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MB's would be rather boring without rumors and assumptions.
 
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Romeo Crennel was meeting with the #Texans until at least late in the afternoon Wednesday.
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an Rapoport @RapSheet
Source close to Romeo Crennel on his interview with #Texans coach Bill O’Brien today: “No news to report.” So no resolution today. Undecided
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Basically, if it's going to be him, we won't hear anything until after the E-W shrine game. If it's not him, they'll be other interviews.
 
NICE!!

(maybe we can get all of the sports radio guys that are on
quick weightloss center programs to get 'em both a discount..)

Playoffs said:
They're onto the entrees... OB is having the fish, RAC choose the NY Strip. Ample wine and candlelight for the occasion. :heart:
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paycheck71 said:
Basically, if it's going to be him, we won't hear anything until after the E-W shrine game. If it's not him, they'll be other interviews.
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Why is the East-West shrine game so demanding that the coaches aren't actively working for an NFL team? Is that to avoid an unfair advantage or conflict of interest? If that's the case then he won't be hired until the day after that game is played.
 
Bulls on Parade said:
Why is the East-West shrine game so demanding that the coaches aren't actively working for an NFL team? Is that to avoid an unfair advantage or conflict of interest? If that's the case then he won't be hired until the day after that game is played.
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Good question, because it's strictly a second-tier all-star game now, been that way for years and years though it use to be a big event back in the day. It's no where near the Senior Bowl game they have in Mobil, AL each year.
 
IDEXAN said:
Good question, because it's strictly a second-tier all-star game now, been that way for years and years though it use to be a big event back in the day. It's no where near the Senior Bowl game they have in Mobil, AL each year.
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I think it's because it's the Shriner's game. Totally about the Shriner's and the work they do. No professionals here, only amateurs and good doers. May not have the wording right but it's all about the charity and early coaches were volunteers from the retired ranks.
 
Ted Johnson was talking abotu Crennel the other night on the radio and basically confirmed our fears about his usage of JJ Watt. I'd like to believe that Crennel would adapt to his players' strengths, but I've seen too many coaches build to their system with little regard for their players' strengths.

Start watching Richard Seymour's Top 100 video here at about 1:35.

Romeo Crennel said:
In our system, our defensive ends are 2-gap players, where you line up head-up on the guy in front of you, and they don't get the opportunity to rush the passer as much. So he had to adapt his game to what we were doing. And to his credit, he was able to do that.
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That doesn't sound like a guy who would tailor his defense to his players. Consider me off the Crennel bandwagon, unless otherwise convinced.

We should go get an offensive coordinator who wants AJ to run 5-yard out routes in between being a blocker, too. Jeez.
 
eriadoc said:
Ted Johnson was talking abotu Crennel the other night on the radio and basically confirmed our fears about his usage of JJ Watt. I'd like to believe that Crennel would adapt to his players' strengths, but I've seen too many coaches build to their system with little regard for their players' strengths.

Start watching Richard Seymour's Top 100 video here at about 1:35.



That doesn't sound like a guy who would tailor his defense to his players. Consider me off the Crennel bandwagon, unless otherwise convinced.

We should go get an offensive coordinator who wants AJ to run 5-yard out routes in between being a blocker, too. Jeez.
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Hiring Crennel would be the worst thing possible for the Houston defense. Why on earth would you want the defensive player of the year to limit his game to being just a run stuffer?
 
JCTexan said:
Hiring Crennel would be the worst thing possible for the Houston defense. Why on earth would you want the defensive player of the year to limit his game to being just a run stuffer?
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There's no way that Crennel doesn't modify his defense to fit around JJ Watt. I think we aren't giving Crennel enough credit in being adaptive. Not all coaches live and die by their system with zero modifications.
 
JCTexan said:
Hiring Crennel would be the worst thing possible for the Houston defense. Why on earth would you want the defensive player of the year to limit his game to being just a run stuffer?
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If they win it wont matter. The team should always come 1st.

I'm sure that on 3rd downs Watt will be rushing the passer in any defense. Whether doubled or triple teamed like last yr. This team has so many problems. The last thing fans need to be worrying adout is JJ Watt.
 
eriadoc said:
Ted Johnson was talking abotu Crennel the other night on the radio and basically confirmed our fears about his usage of JJ Watt. I'd like to believe that Crennel would adapt to his players' strengths, but I've seen too many coaches build to their system with little regard for their players' strengths.

Start watching Richard Seymour's Top 100 video here at about 1:35.

That doesn't sound like a guy who would tailor his defense to his players. Consider me off the Crennel bandwagon, unless otherwise convinced.

We should go get an offensive coordinator who wants AJ to run 5-yard out routes in between being a blocker, too. Jeez.
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You have to be careful to determine when a Crennel quote was made and the reason why goes against the "doesn't tailor" thought. In Cleveland as DC the base D was 4-3. The year prior to his arrival the Pats were base 3-4 with McGinest at OLB. With Crennel as DC they were base 4-3 for 3 of 4 years. Seymour played 4-3 DE (2 years) and DT (1 year) and 3-4 DE (1 year). He is not slavish to a single system.
 
drs23 said:
New regime. COMPLETELY NEW REGIME. Sure didn't take BO'B long to make that decision did it?

Not surprised at all.
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yeah new regime why is Rick smith still here ................. didn't he help build this disaster 2-14 team
 
htownfan32 said:
There's no way that Crennel doesn't modify his defense to fit around JJ Watt. I think we aren't giving Crennel enough credit in being adaptive. Not all coaches live and die by their system with zero modifications.
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Agree. All of this panic about what Crennel "may do" is ridiculus. He'll have one of the top defensive players in the NFL, and we don't think he'll work around that players' talents? LOL.

There's a reason why the once coach who survived the Reliant Coaching Massacre just happens to be the coach of JJ Watt.

Think, people.
 
htownfan32 said:
There's no way that Crennel doesn't modify his defense to fit around JJ Watt. I think we aren't giving Crennel enough credit in being adaptive. Not all coaches live and die by their system with zero modifications.
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I wouldn't be so sure about that ? Crennel's coaching resume is littered with big nose-guards from Ted Washington and Vince Wilfork at New England to Dontari Poe in KC, all of whom he employed as traditional head-up-on-the-center 3-4 nose-tackles which means 2-gappers. That's been a hallmark of the defenses he's had in his regimes, whether as a HC or DC. Actually the gap assignments is really more significant than the choice of alignments between a either a 3-4 or 4-3. OK so here's one pundit who sees JJ as possibly an OLB in a Crennel defense in Houston, though he seems off mark in comparing
that to the one that Wade had for Mario in his brief stint in Wades D.
http://www.stateofthetexans.com/blog/2014/01/08/what-if-how-will-romeo-crennels-defense-look/
".J. Watt (6’5, 290 lbs.)
Watt would make the transition perfectly as a 2-gap defensive end, he can read and react, stack and shed not to mention he has superior pass rush ability. The issue is why would you limit him to just holding up blocks and occupying gaps when he would be far more effective rushing the passer? This is why a potential move of Watt to outside linebacker and have him rush the passer 95% of the time could be looked at. This sounds out of the box, but with Watt it would not be worth paying him $100 million contract just to hold up blocks. Plus, Watt has enough athletic ability to make the transition much like Mario Williams did for Wade Phillips. The other plus to this is that you would put Watt on an island against tight ends and even tackles where double teams are not always possible. If guards try to help double Watt on the outside it could set up huge lanes for the inside linebackers to play downhill through.
 
Why in the world is anyone worried about how an excellent DC is going to use one of the best football players in the NFL?
 
paycheck71 said:
Basically, if it's going to be him, we won't hear anything until after the E-W shrine game. If it's not him, they'll be other interviews.
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When is that East-West Shrine Game? I don't care to watch, but I'd like to get it out of the way so we can get away from this wink wink nod nod manure.

Uhg! Nine more days walking around the manure pile.
 
I'd imagine that JJ Watt would be one of the primary reasons why an elite defensive coordinator would want to come to the Texans.

JJ, and a big ol' sack of cash, of course.
 
Craig. said:
Because texanstalk.
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Another Crennel connected D coach to be hired.

PDS @PatDStat
#Texans RT @Kevin_Noon: Multiple sources telling us that #Buckeyes coach Mike Vrabel is leaving to take job with Texans
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PDS @PatDStat
FWIW Vrabel played under Crennel at NE and KC when he left to be the HC there. Possible connection happening. #Texans
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silvrhand said:
The patriots were relevant before the arrival of Tom Brady.
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Yep. The franchise had already been to two Super Bowls before Brady even arrived.

And yeah, they lost them, but I'd take two Super Bowl losses any day of the week compared to the football history of this city.

Whoever they hire as head coach, he will have a history with other team(s) and critics will label it [insert team here]-south.
 
I like the Vrabel hire. His resume speaks for itself, plus the Ohio St fans that I know say that he has done a tremendous job during his time there.
 
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