Houston Texans: Victory! Victory! Victory!
By Neal Sharma
Houston Texans thoughts on the front office moving forward
The Houston Texans front office was the reason the Texans ultimately failed expectations. They couldn’t maintain a contending front office because of their moves and they are not looking appealing to a lot of people, if any.
The Texans — who finished the 2020 season at 4-12 overall — eventually fired one of the big pieces, that being former head coach Bill O’Brien, but one of the two still remain: Mr. Jack Easterby.
Let’s put a pin in that for a second.
When Cal McNair was interviewed about a status update on the search for future head coaching and general manager candidates, and his response was:
"“I think what we’re going to do is put together sort of an ad hoc committee of maybe four or five experts outside of the Texans, but really leaders in football and in sports, possibly a former player, to get insights and wisdom on the process and how structures might look and people might fit in those structures and what the best way is to put this thing together,” McNair said. “So we’re going to look putting that together here real soon and maybe next time we visit, we can visit more about that.” McNair also hired Korn Ferry, a search firm. They were likely given a big contract to advise candidates for the Houston Texans to hire."
So the resources were definitely there. The ad hoc committee included NFL experts, Korn Ferry was involved, and there must have been a lot of money poured in to gain access to these resources.
Korn Ferry was paid to do their homework, and they probably worked decently with their research, and the NFL experts, who have likely had success in the NFL world, likely gave all of their solid opinions.
Then I see this tweet:
Mike Garafolo of the NFL Network tweets:
"“Caserio is very highly thought of. I’m saying Cal McNair paid a search firm to help with the process and then went off the board anyway. Supposedly Easterby made a big push on Sunday.”"
This is where I start to lose my mind.