Houston Texans Fire Head Coach Bill O'Brien
The Houston Texans have started the 2020 regular season with four straight losses. They are 0-4. In the history of the NFL, there has been exactly ONE franchise to start a season 0-4 and go on to make the playoffs. (In case you get into bar trivia duels, that one team was the 1992 San Diego Chargers, led by the immortal Stan Humphries at quarterback!)
This Texans team doesn't look remotely ready to win a football game, let alone win the nine or ten games that would be required to make the NFL's postseason. Perhaps the most frustrating and infuriating part of the Texans' failure this season is that head coach Bill O'Brien was supposed to be an offensive expert (despite six recent seasons of Texans football that display the contrary), and the offense flat out stinks.
Players look confused, Deshaun Watson looks neutered, and in the end, the most productive output through four games was the 23 points they scored on Sunday against Minnesota. By Monday afternoon, Texans owner Cal McNair had seen enough, and he decided to move on from Bill O'Brien, firing the seventh year head coach and naming Romeo Crennel as interim head coach for the remainder of the season.
It's impossible to say the writing was on the wall for a move like this, because for the Texans, this is unprecedented, and a clear signal that Cal McNair is operating FAR differently than his father, the late Bob McNair, ever did. Bob McNair sat through eight seasons of Gary Kubiak before pulling the trigger on his termination. Cal McNair has now fired a general manager (Brian Gainer) and a head coach/general manager in sixteen months. These are not your older brother's Texans.
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