That seems ridiculous, but it's hard to argue that's not happening with Harbaugh right now. Maybe that's going on with Allen, too.
Todd Bowles is another guy that comes to mind. No idea how he hasn’t gotten another HC gig but you never hear his name.
I think he's correct Culley was hired to be fired. I don't think his reasoning is correct. I think Culley was hired because once everything went down with Caserio where Watson demanded a trade, who was taking that job? I think they hired Culley because no one they wanted was jumping into that dumpster fire.
The only game I watched this season was Texans v Miami....only bc I bet on Miami. Fuck our stupid ass management. Only way I will ever support this franchise again is once Cal fires Easterby or sells the team.
Firing a black coach after one year that did surprisingly well given the circumstances while a rookie qb also developed well under him really bad optics there
This is one of those optics conversations that is dumb. Culley did the best anyone could do there this year, but he also had really embarrassing moments where it was clear he was in over his head. He's 66 years old, had never been an OC, and was never a HC candidate anywhere but Houston last year. If there's a racial component to this, I think it's far more likely he was hired because he's black and the idiots running that org are ignorant/dumb enough to think that might help them convince Watson to play after he demanded a trade. This is Jim Tomsula in SF.
I don't think Watson was going to care no matter who they hired, which everyone already knew and why I'm assuming no one wanted that job.
He made one of the dumbest decisions I've seen a coach make recently when they played the Browns. They were still pretty competitive that game, but that made me think he might be in over his head. https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2021/09/20/texans-browns-david-culley-fourth-down-decision
but that probably doesn't matter because Deshaun didn't give a bunch of women a chance to say yes (allegedly)
A GM who was in the NE front office hiring a coach who coached for the Pats. Wonder what might happen if someone tried that model with another organization. Seems foolproof.
If this is even half true, the "poor David Culley" and "this is unfair" bits should probably go away. Good for him. He's my new hero.
I think people believe he is getting shorted on an opportunity to continue being an NFL coach. We understand things are fine financially for NFL head coaches.
This page is contradiction city. The job is going to Flores. The Texans are targeting Mayo. Culley only had 2 years guaranteed. Culley is owed 17 million over the next 3 seasons. Love this time of year.
yeah we're a shit show, but firing culley was always going to happen so dont get any person shocked or anyone who has angst about this. dude got paid. jury remains out on caserio dont care about flores he's too much of a dick mayonnaise me
That stage started an hour after they fired him, although Flores' side had the "he wanted Herbert and Ross made them take Tua" thing. The Miami stuff has a lot of similarities to the Harbaugh/49ers thing, except instead of running a year long PR campaign against him after year 3 like SF did, the Dolphins just fired Flores and confused everyone.
The Athletic employing Michael Lombardi often makes me second guess my subscription. The fact that I've continued even pennies to that jackass's salary is maddening
I don't remember where it was, but there was "Flores wanted Herbert and that's a big reason for the problems with Ross/Grier" story out within an hour of him getting fired.