What I'm saying is I seriously doubt BOB gets dumb from week to week. After all he's an Ivy League graduate. Does he have bad weeks? Sure he does, does he have 7 bad weeks in a season and win 11 games in a season? No chance, bad HC's dont win 11 games in a season.
Is BOB one of the best HC's in the NFL? Nope Is he one of the worst? Nope. Hopefully he can improve now that he doesn't have OC duties, just like hopefully DW4 can improve under Kelly/Smith/Yates.
He's avg, which is par for the course with the Texans org.
Have you listen to the Wade Smith and Cecil Shorts conversation regarding Watson, O'Brien, the WRs and the scheme? If not, you really need to listen to it.
For example. Listening to their conversation, when you talk about the offensive inconsistencies, they believe the root cause is the implementation of the game plan offense:
1. Without an identity, you're always reacting to the defense. Never dictating tempo or matchups.
2. Certain weeks, certain WRs and TEs are a big part of the game plan and others they are totally ignored. It's hard for some players. Especially young players
3. For a week 10 game, you have plays in the game plan that you haven't run since training camp. Fuller and Hopkins might be limited in practice and Watson is practicing with 3rd and 4th string WRs. The game starts and the spacing, timing and route running are off from the limited practice with the backup WRs.
4. During practice the backups are not great route runners like Hopkins or Fuller. Now the game starts and the timing is off.
5. Since so much is dependent on the WR and QB being on the same page, when they are not seeing the same thing, it leads to inconsistent play
6. During the game week, you spend more time in the classroom than on the field. Without an identity, a young team struggles with the weekly plays and concepts
Personally, I think O'Brien could be an above average HC. But he has to get out of his own way. It seems like he's a smart guy who has to constantly reinvent the wheel. Every team has a game plan offense. Chris Simms said, "O'Brien doesn't
steal enough ideas from around the league". He doesn't do enough to help his QB. You hear similar sentiments from former QBs like Sean Salisbury, Dan Orlovsky and Clint Stoerner.
I know you probably consider these as DW4 excuses. But from week to week, it's either Watson or O'Brien or the WRs/TEs or the OL or a combination of one or the other. You simply want to pin the root of all inconsistencies on Watson when inconsistency is a team effort. Hopefully, Kelly can establish an identity on offense. Identify what his talent does well, streamline the offense, teach the offense to his young squad, utilize the offensive talent on a consistent basis, and freshen this stale offense with concepts from the Chiefs, 49ers, Eagles, Rams and even Clemson.