Mr teX
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What is the incentive of making up a story about a nobody named Jack Easterby? This is where your assumption falls apart. I do not see SI regularly making up and printing cover stories about random and relatively unknown front office executives.
that article is mostly an opinion piece & it came on the heels of the most lopsided trade in history. A trade so bad it was worth probing as to how & why it happened. In that regard, you don't need to make up anything..... all you need is a perspective & some insights from someone on the inside......or someone formally on the inside. Enter Nuk...helped along the way and off the record by folks like Amy Palcic both of whom probably gave them their opinions about what they think. & it wouldn't be hard to find others in an organization composed of 100's of people to find like minded opinions.
I respect your life experiences and knowledge, but it is anecdotal at best or completely irrelevant to the Houston Texans at worst.
Not at all actually....That is if you think NBC news & Pro Publica are irrelevant news outlets that can't stir up enough **** to force resignations and intensive state regulatory sanctions....largely based on stories written to present a certain biased and incomplete view of something.
Reality is Jack has made himself Littlefinger to Janice and Cal, so just like Bob McNair liked to make employment conditional, we can speculate just as easy that Jack is here because the owners want him here and then nothing else matters. I doubt Nick is going to argue about some overpaid character coach considering he's getting paid $6 million/year as GM.
See, I can use my own anecdotal experiences as a business owner to speculate and assume just like you can. It doesn't make either of us right. . .or wrong.
The point is a plethora of evidence points to Easterby being toxic, and very little evidence to believe that he's going to be integral to positive growth within.
"Since Jack has walked into that building, nothing good has happened in that building." ~ Andre Johnson #80
The reality is, there is no "plethora" of evidence against the dude only slanted opinions from disgruntled people.....& that you've bit hook line and sinker into believing exactly what the media & those behind it want you to think about him..the narrative just doesn't fit though if you look deeper. AJ's words only held weight in so much that he's been in the building.....but then he lost cred as soon as he popped up on twitter with DW4 telling him to "stand your ground!" in demanding a trade.............. 2 months after dude had just signed a massive extension to stay.....let alone all the other nonsense that was about to later drop against DW4. Fact is his word only counts so much b/c he's too close to the players & players ALWAYS side with players in situations like this.