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Texans hire Bill O'Brien as HC

kiwitexansfan said:
No one knows developing QBs like a TE coach.
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From Google...
George Robert Godsey is the Quarterbacks coach for the Houston Texans and a former Central Florida assistant coach. He played quarterback at Georgia Tech before playing in the Arena Football League for one season.
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maybe he has a passing knowledge on the subject...
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Bill O'Brien's best friend in the league...

The pair coached together at Georgia Tech in the mid-1990s. O'Brien met his wife, Colleen, through Bills HC Doug Marrone and his wife right around then.

"It's a funny profession," Marrone said. "You start off, and I started off in Division III after I'd gotten done playing. You grow up with a lot of people. usually it's regional. we were all obviously in the northeast together. ... You see everyone grow and see everyone grow in the profession. It's a gratifying experience to know people in your profession have integrity, have character, that work extremely hard and are able to be successful."

Marrone didn't say much about what O'Brien was like when they were young coaches together, but I asked him off the podium if the intensity everybody talks about with O'Brien has always been part of his character.

"Bill wears his heart on his sleeve," Marrone said. "I'd say it's intense, but it's intense in a positive way, not a negative way. ... If he couldn't turn it off, that would be a negative way. ... He's done it throughout his whole career, not only as a head coach, but even when I saw him as a position coach."

Marrone recently went through the same transition O'Brien is about to. I felt similarities in their feelings about making the move. Marrone actually felt the transition from college to the NFL was easier than the transition from working in the pros to working in college.

"I was much more comfortable with the schedule, calendar, the way it was in the NFL than it was in college," Marrone said. "The schedule is different. It's very difficult to spend as much time as you'd like to coaching."
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http://espn.go.com/blog/houston-texans/post/_/id/4037/marrone-talks-obriens-intensity
 
Combine: O'Brien presser (Part 1)

Combine: O'Brien presser (Part 2)

Combine: O'Brien presser (Part 3)

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James Palmer ‏@JPalmerCSN
Bill O'Brien said having Romeo Crennel on his staff will help tremendously during his 1st season. Said he's been there & won games. #Texans

BOB says Looking at how a player is built needs to be taken into account along with height in looking at a QB. #NFLCombine #texans

"You can't compare guys to Tom Brady" BOB on if he looks at these young QBs in the draft. #NFLCombine #texans

"One of the things in this league is you're always looking at tackles. You can never have too many tackles" BOB. #texans

BOB said he's met with all the QBs on he #texans and is looking at all of them and their competitiveness... said he doesn't even have it narrowed down to 5 or 6 players in mind for the 1st pick. #texans #NFLCombine

#texans HC Bill O'Brien at the podium now. pic.twitter.com/agNJcuSNQN
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Tania Ganguli ‏@taniaganguli
No OC for the #Texans, but Bill O'Brien said today QB coach George Godsey is going to take some of the traditional OC responsibilities.

O'Brien says he hasn't spoken to UCF coach George O'Leary about Blake Bortles yet. They've only spoken once since he took this job. #Texans

BOB says the #texans defense will be versatile when asked if they'll run Crennel's 3-4 system.

Asked if he'll run a zone blocking scheme, O"Brien says their scheme will be diverse. #Texans

BOB says looking at how a player is built needs to be taken into account along with height in looking at a QB. #NFLCombine #texans

O'Brien on Schaub/Yates/Keenum: "Good guys. Looking forward to working with these guys." #Texans

"I've watched Jadeveon on film. He's obviously a very good player. I think he played very well this year." Bill O'Brien #Texans

O'Brien says the Texans have not narrowed the field to 4 or 5 players.

"It takes a long time. It's not something where you develop your thoughts right away" O'Brien says about choosing first pick. #Texans

#Texans coach Bill O'Brien to the podium. Manziel still talking.
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Brian T. Smith ‏@ChronBrianSmith
#Texans' O'Brien has only spoken with George O'Leary once since taking job. #NFL

#Texans' O'Brien said offense will run a zone-blocking scheme, power scheme, trap scheme ... "a lot of schemes." #NFL

Asked about 3-4/Crennel affecting J.J. Watt, #Texans' O'Brien said Watt will "fit in well with our schemes." Will use a "multiple" defense.

#Texans' O'Brien said he's looking for a QB that's best for the team and fits what team does. Has had 5-10 and 6-5 QBs who've worked well.

#Texans' O'Brien: "You can't really compare guys to Tom Brady." #NFL #Patriots

#Texans will hold a rookie minicamp week after #NFL draft.

#Texans' O'Brien emphasizing "team guys" that represent the organization.

#Texans' O'Brien joked he doesn't know what it means when people say Blake Bortles is his type of guy. #NFL

#Texans' O'Brien said team will continue to work with all three QBs. Asked if Schaub or Keenum could start in '14, O'Brien didn't answer.

#Texans' O'Brien has met with Schaub, Keenum, Yates. #NFL

#Texans' O'Brien didn't discuss Clowney's desire, lack of focus when asked. #NFL

#Texans' O'Brien said Clowney is a "very good player" on film but added there are many good players in draft.

#Texans' O'Brien emphasizing time and patience for No. 1 pick. Not even close to making a final decision. #NFL

#Texans' Bill O'Brien. #NFL pic.twitter.com/nt3QnPziTk
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EllisUnit said:
HAHA well Rick has atleast been here and we have seen what he can do in the draft, we dont know about BOB yet. Cant answer that atleast for a few seasons.
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True that.

All the hours and hours of tedious eval on these players makes me tired just thinking about it.
 
Watching OL run 40s isn't exactly exciting or important. He was probably resting those eyes for the field drills.
 
bah007 said:
Watching OL run 40s isn't exactly exciting or important. He was probably resting those eyes for the field drills.
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Agreed. & instead of looking like a bump on the log, Rick Smith should have been laying out feelers for that #1 pick.





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Thorn said:
Yes. And at my age, developing a relationship with Dr. Dagger could be really helpful.

ooooooohhhhh my back is sore. need pills. LOL
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Hmmmmm. Let me see................Before distributing any of them funny "medicines" legally, I will take the Texans approach.

First, a careful, thoughtful, in-depth evaluation.............


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Then, a trip to the operating room with a very carefully thought out plan...........


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..... that will afford you the best chance to have a legitimate need for the life-long drugs you seek. :)
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
First, a careful, thoughtful, in-depth evaluation.............

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Then, a trip to the operating room with a very carefully thought out plan...........

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..... that will afford you the best chance to have a legitimate need for the life-long drugs you seek. :)
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I'll stick with Band Aids, Polysporin, and Aleeve thanks. :tiphat:
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Hmmmmm. Let me see................Before distributing any of them funny "medicines" legally, I will take the Texans approach.

First, a careful, thoughtful, in-depth evaluation.............


sharp-stabbing-pain.jpg



Then, a trip to the operating room with a very carefully thought out plan...........


funny-surgery-cartoon-comic-strip.jpg



..... that will afford you the best chance to have a legitimate need for the life-long drugs you seek. :)
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LOL. Good one Doc.
 
Bill O’Brien: Texans will draft a QB, we don’t know which round
“I don’t think there’s any question that we’ll draft a quarterback in the draft,” O’Brien said. “Where we draft that quarterback, I don’t think we know yet. We don’t even know that yet. We’re still in the process of studying all these prospects, in the process of putting a grade on them and place them where they would be in the draft. The big thing is it’s such a long process. We’re in the stage now where we go to the Pro Days and eventually we bring them into our facility for an interview, we call it an on-campus interview in Houston. As we get closer and closer we’ll obviously be able to make a decision.”

O’Brien hinted that Central Florida’s Blake Bortles, Louisville’s Teddy Bridgewater and Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel aren’t necessarily the quarterbacks he’s watching.

“There’s not a lot of separation, and there are more quarterbacks than just three. Obviously, the three guys that everybody talks about, Blake, Teddy and Johnny, those guys are good players. Thy had great college careers. But there are other guys out there,” O’Brien said.
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“You’ve got McCarron, you’ve got Mettenberger, you’ve got Logan Thomas, you’ve got Savage, you’ve got Garoppolo. I mean, I could go right down the list. To me, you’ve got 10 or 12 guys you’ve got to do a great job of evaluating and make the best pick possible where ever you draft these guys. I see a lot of good quarterbacks,” O’Brien said.
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From comments:
renhoekk2 says:
Mar 24, 2014 9:48 AM
To have seen what Bill O’Brien did with Matt McGloin at PSU was remarkable. The difference in his play in just one year with O’Brien was amazing. He should get half of McGloin’s paycheck, because he go him an NFL job. There is no way McGloin ever starts an NFL game if O’Brien does not show up in State College. He also did a great job with a true freshman last season. If I’m a Texan’s fan I’m stoked to see what he can do with a more talented QB. Trust me, he doesn’t need to take a guy at #1 to have a capable NFL starting QB that they can win with.
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Well, as long as this thread is about O'Brien, let me add a completely unsubstantiated rumor of which I have only heard by word of mouth from one person. She says as a volunteer for the Houston livestock show & Rodeo that O'Brien was very rude to her in asking for directions and said he was the head coach of the Texans and deserved better treatment (or something like that).

You heard it here first folks, on the TexansTalk BBS. A internet rumor that can't be proven from someone most of you have never met. LOL

But seriously, she did say that about him. She now thinks O'Brien is a complete turd and hopes the Texans go 0-16 this year. But she's also an Eagles fan so there's that as well.
 
Thorn said:
Well, as long as this thread is about O'Brien, let me add a completely unsubstantiated rumor of which I have only heard by word of mouth from one person. She says as a volunteer for the Houston livestock show & Rodeo that O'Brien was very rude to her in asking for directions and said he was the head coach of the Texans and deserved better treatment (or something like that).

You heard it here first folks, on the TexansTalk BBS. A internet rumor that can't be proven from someone most of you have never met. LOL

But seriously, she did say that about him. She now thinks O'Brien is a complete turd and hopes the Texans go 0-16 this year. But she's also an Eagles fan so there's that as well.
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He looks like a butthole.... well, his chin looks like a butthole.
 
Thorn said:
Well, as long as this thread is about O'Brien, let me add a completely unsubstantiated rumor of which I have only heard by word of mouth from one person. She says as a volunteer for the Houston livestock show & Rodeo that O'Brien was very rude to her in asking for directions and said he was the head coach of the Texans and deserved better treatment (or something like that).

You heard it here first folks, on the TexansTalk BBS. A internet rumor that can't be proven from someone most of you have never met. LOL

But seriously, she did say that about him. She now thinks O'Brien is a complete turd and hopes the Texans go 0-16 this year. But she's also an Eagles fan so there's that as well.
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So she was giving him ****ty treatment to elicit that response from him? :kitten:
 
Thorn said:
Well, as long as this thread is about O'Brien, let me add a completely unsubstantiated rumor of which I have only heard by word of mouth from one person. She says as a volunteer for the Houston livestock show & Rodeo that O'Brien was very rude to her in asking for directions and said he was the head coach of the Texans and deserved better treatment (or something like that).

You heard it here first folks, on the TexansTalk BBS. A internet rumor that can't be proven from someone most of you have never met. LOL

But seriously, she did say that about him. She now thinks O'Brien is a complete turd and hopes the Texans go 0-16 this year. But she's also an Eagles fan so there's that as well.
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Interesting. I have heard from more than one source - reliable sources with the team - that JJ Watt, behind the scenes, is not the Boy Scout he presents to the public. I hear he's a bit of a douche. But, he's still an effective player, so it doesn't bother me.

O'Brien is a hard-edge east cost guy, and I'm fine with that - as long as he brings the W's.


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houstonspartan said:
Interesting. I have heard from more than one source - reliable sources with the team - that JJ Watt, behind the scenes, is not the Boy Scout he presents to the public. I hear he's a bit of a douche. But, he's still an effective player, so it doesn't bother me.

O'Brien is a hard-edge east cost guy, and I'm fine with that - as long as he brings the W's.


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Personally, I don't care if it's true or not, but the lady that told me is a nice person, so I doubt she was lying and I believe her. Not that I care, he could have just been having a bad day, or he really is a complete a$$hole. He brings us lots of W's and a trophy or two, he can be an a$$hole all day long for all I care. And as someone else said, maybe we need that kind of personality in charge right now. It'd be a refreshing change as far as I'm concerned.
 
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