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Texans hire Bill O'Brien as HC

"The offense that he teaches is complex," Ferguson said. "He doesn’t overwhelm you with it. He does a great job of going step by step but also keeping up a good pace. ... He understood everything that we went through. He tried to coach us as if he would be the one playing out there. He would try to put himself in our shoes and try to make it easy for us."

It's interesting that Ferguson felt that way given that O'Brien never played the position, or any offensive position. He spent a lot of one-on-one time with the quarterbacks.

So what did he do when they messed up?

"It’s one of those things, if it’s your first time making a mistake, he teaches you what to do better, how to do better," Ferguson said. "But if it’s the fourth, fifth time making a mistake, he’s going to be angry. ... Like any coach. Just letting you have it for a quick second then move on. He doesn’t dwell on things. He’s a good guy to be around."
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http://espn.go.com/blog/houston-texans/post/_/id/3430/thoughts-from-a-qb-bill-obrien-coached
 
Playoffs said:
I'll alert the media... front page story. :D :fingergun:
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infantrycak said:
It can go right under the newsflash: "Bill has proclivity for women attracted to brass and singing "the bare necessities.""
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Too late...
Adam Schefter has already re-tweeted both tidbits
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ObsiWan said:
I was recalling all the grief cast upon Kubiak for hiring his "buddies". But now it's perfectly normal for the new staff to be populated by Buddies Of O'Brien.
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If you'd notice, the people who were giving Kubiak grief over it.... still don't like the idea. They expect O'Brien to hold interviews for every staff position & higher the best candidate available.

The guys who used to say, "This is the way it is in the NFL" are still saying, "This is t he way it is in the NFL."

The real test is going to be when one of those coaches don't deliver.
 
thunderkyss said:
If you'd notice, the people who were giving Kubiak grief over it.... still don't like the idea. They expect O'Brien to hold interviews for every staff position & higher the best candidate available.

The guys who used to say, "This is the way it is in the NFL" are still saying, "This is t he way it is in the NFL."

The real test is going to be when one of those coaches don't deliver.
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Correct. As I said earlier, the issue isn't hiring buddies; the issue is whether or not you have the stones to fire them when things go bad. It's one of those "tough decisions" that high level people sometimes have to make.

Pete Carroll fired one of his buddies, who was the offensive coordinator. You see how that turned out.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Very interesting piece/relationship. Thanks for posting!
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Glad you enjoyed it. The owner of my company has a mentor who challenges him on the way he thinks and what he does. It's a major part of what makes him a great businessman to have that critique so I can only imagine it has a major impact on O'Brien as well.
 
Guess he's really emphasizing the "team" thing

Albert Breer ‏@AlbertBreer 41m
Interesting nugget: I'm told Bill O'Brien & others spent time last weekend removing anything emphasizing individuals at the Texans facility.
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Albert Breer ‏@AlbertBreer 40m
... O'Brien had anything that didn't keep the focus on the team -- be it a jersey or an award -- taken down. Messaging: The group above all.
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Albert Breer ‏@AlbertBreer 40m
Players who've passed through this week have taken notice of O'Brien's changes. And they say his intensity and passion has been noticeable.
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Albert Breer ‏@AlbertBreer 38m
Bill O'Brien's tactic not unlike what Bill Belichick did in New England in 2010, taking down pictures of the previous era's accomplishments.
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... O'Brien had anything that didn't keep the focus on the team -- be it a jersey or an award -- taken down. Messaging: The group above all.
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... letterman jacket .....
 
The letterman jacket thing was way overblown, I think. When the news first came out, EVERYBODY loved it! Tons of tweets from all over about how awesome it was. Besides, I'm sure it was designed as a team building thing, not jackassery (but who knows). And if they didn't get blown out by NE, it wouldn't have been an issue; people probably would have said it helped pull the team together. In the end, I don't think it mattered either way.

O'Brien is just trying to imprint some of his own ideas and principles on the facility. Change is clearly needed, and when your surroundings tell you that things have changed, it might be easier for you as a player to embrace it. Plus, he's doing it 4 months before the OTA's, it's not going to be a big deal by the time camp rolls around.
 
IDEXAN said:
Treating 30 year old pros like they are adolescents ? Even youngster JJ is, well,
very deeply involved in being JJ.
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I don't think he was treating anyone like they are adolescents other than the organization as a whole. He was letting everyone know, especially the front office staff, that there is no "I" in Team
 
IDEXAN said:
Treating 30 year old pros like they are adolescents ? Even youngster JJ is, well,
very deeply involved in being JJ.
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The average age is nowhere close to 30. These guys in large part are very talented adolescents. This kind of stuff is not for players like AJ and JJ. It's for the 51 cats around them that need to be herded. A lot of them are maturely spending their time considering what speaker system and rims to have put on the Bentley they just spent their annual salary on.
 
Man, the tendency we, fans, have to overanalyze and nit-pick everything is amazing.

Edit: All that while we have almost no reliable information.
 
infantrycak said:
The average age is nowhere close to 30. These guys in large part are very talented adolescents. This kind of stuff is not for players like AJ and JJ. It's for the 51 cats around them that need to be herded. A lot of them are maturely spending their time considering what speaker system and rims to have put on the Bentley they just spent their annual salary on.
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Agree 100 percent.
 
infantrycak said:
The average age is nowhere close to 30. These guys in large part are very talented adolescents. This kind of stuff is not for players like AJ and JJ. It's for the 51 cats around them that need to be herded. A lot of them are maturely spending their time considering what speaker system and rims to have put on the Bentley they just spent their annual salary on.
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I definitely have a more favorable opinion of the maturity level of the current roster than you do. And besides, maturity speaks to attitude which translates to effort on the field, and frankly I didn't find the effort on the field to be at all deficient in 2013 for most games from most players. No I think the teams
problems are found elsewhere.
 
IDEXAN said:
Treating 30 year old pros like they are adolescents ? Even youngster JJ is, well,
very deeply involved in being JJ.
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The style doesn't matter, it's the individual. To me this sounds like someone wanting to complain about lack of accountability in the Kubiak regime, and then when accountability is perceived as being inserted, it becomes treating players like their adolescents.

O'Brien's either going to be a successful NFL HC, or he's not, but in the end - it won't be his style that determines that (because somewhere in other NFL cities there are other HC's that have both failed and succeeded with almost the exact same style).
 
JB said:
I don't think he was treating anyone like they are adolescents other than the organization as a whole. He was letting everyone know, especially the front office staff, that there is no "I" in Team
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Sorry, man, just couldn't resist. :runaway:
 
HOU-TEX said:
Guess he's really emphasizing the "team" thing
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What exactly do we have up that emphasizes individuals anyway? Serious question.

We were already a team with a focus on team anyway. We have some dumb players but I don't think we have any really selfish ones.
 
TheMatrix31 said:
What exactly do we have up that emphasizes individuals anyway? Serious question.

We were already a team with a focus on team anyway. We have some dumb players but I don't think we have any really selfish ones.
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Do they have things like player of the week, DPOY awards on display?

Probowl jerseys?
 
//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BkIh1R5utYI guess Leon isn't an on the FA watch list. Always thought this was a good one. Aint no "I" in Team...there aint no "We" either!
 
infantrycak said:
The average age is nowhere close to 30. These guys in large part are very talented adolescents. This kind of stuff is not for players like AJ and JJ. It's for the 51 cats around them that need to be herded. A lot of them are maturely spending their time considering what speaker system and rims to have put on the Bentley they just spent their annual salary on.
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Agreed. Kubiak's doghouse didn't work very well & sending three of them packing for smoking a cigar didn't seem to help much either.
 
Speaking of Kubes....

He was in the checkout line at the supermarket this afternoon, right behind Mrs. Ghost.

He said hi (with a big smile), had a basketful of food......and a big pack of beer!
 
Bill O'Brien dines with President George H.W. Bush
Bill O'Brien's first week on the job continued Thursday with a special lunch.

The Texans' new head coach took a quick break and along with his wife Colleen and team founder/chairman/CEO Bob McNair, dined with President George H.W. Bush. The Commander-in-Chief from 1989-1993 is a regular at Reliant Stadium when the Texans play, and a friend of McNair's.
President Bush wanted to meet the new man in charge, and invited him to his Houston office.

"It was a lot of fun because Coach O'Brien had called his father and mother before he came over," McNair said Thursday. "He said 'Mom, Dad, you can't believe where I'm going. I'm going to have lunch with President Bush.'"
The O'Briens and McNair were also treated to a bit of the President's humor and sartorial individuality.

"Of course, the first thing he showed us were his socks," McNair said. "He was wearing Texans socks. He had to pull his pants up so we could see that and get a picture."
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A pretty good read by Tanya Ganguli on our new coach.

That kid was a young man headed toward a lifelong dream, one that has led him to becoming the Houston Texans’ third head coach in franchise history. He was already showing the traits he carried with him as a coach. A love of the game's strategy and a keen ability to make those around him feel good about themselves.
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Read the rest here
 
Double Barrel said:
Of course it's not true. Pope Marshall has a tendency to wear "1950's era rose colored glasses".

But, far be it for the truth to remove those glasses:

Top Profanity in POTUS History

Turns out GW Bush loves the "f word". I think it's the most versatile of cuss words myself, being used as a noun, verb, adjective, etc., and it rhymes with so many other words that it's great for heavy metal and blues!



Turns out Mark Twain - you know, the American literary icon - LOVED to cuss. Had a special room just to do it in, too.

But my fav is Harry Truman. One of the last truly great presidents:



But hey, only "respectable folk" grow out of it. :rolleyes:

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Like you said. It depends on what you consider respectable. You gave examples of none in my book.
 
houstonspartan said:
I'm guessing that people saw that Kubiak kept one or two of Capers' assistants - Marciano and Harris, I think - and assumed that that is how it's done. It's the "nice guy" way of doing things, in a lot of people's minds.

But, the truth is, O'Brien was well within reason to clean house and not get input from the current coaches. Had we gone, say, 8-8, then maybe I could see considering keeping a few more people.

But, 2-14? And losing 14 in a row?

Hell no.

Everybody and their mamma should have been fired.
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But get a memory. This is also the same staff that led an 11-5 team to a second consecutive playoff victory. You can't ignore the good or the bad when it comes in the same package.

I for one will remember Kubiak as an honorable and capable coach who just ran out of time and the patience of fans and the FO. It was time for a change and it happened. Different circumstance are likely to produce different outcomes. I think he will be successful at his next project.
 
Marshall said:
But get a memory. This is also the same staff that led an 11-5 team to a second consecutive playoff victory. You can't ignore the good or the bad when it comes in the same package.

I for one will remember Kubiak as an honorable and capable coach who just ran out of time and the patience of fans and the FO. It was time for a change and it happened. Different circumstance are likely to produce different outcomes. I think he will be successful at his next project.
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I have a memory. I remember those playoff wins.

I am saying that this staff failed, and should not be allowed to evaluate the current roster. They have done nothing to deserve the opportunity to do so.

Regarding Kubiak, I don't want to get into a circular argument, because everything said about him has been said; but, it should be noted that he did not "run out of time." He had 8 years. That's a lifetime in the NFL.
 
Marshall said:
Like you said. It depends on what you consider respectable. You gave examples of none in my book.
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Fantastic. Once again, I find myself on the proper side of an issue because it's the opposite perspective of you.

houstonspartan said:
I have a memory. I remember those playoff wins.

I am saying that this staff failed, and should not be allowed to evaluate the current roster. They have done nothing to deserve the opportunity to do so.

Regarding Kubiak, I don't want to get into a circular argument, because everything said about him has been said; but, it should be noted that he did not "run out of time." He had 8 years. That's a lifetime in the NFL.
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Never forget that the poster you quoted believes that two playoff appearances in 8 seasons and has a 2-14 season is "capable". :ok:
 
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