Jack Easterby is the Texans’ interim GM, but he won’t be the team’s Texans’ GM for the 2021 season, owner Cal McNair tells John McClain of the Houston Chronicle. McNair also confirmed that he won’t give his next head coach the GM title.
“We’ll search for a general manager first, find the right guy, and then we’ll hire the coach,” McNair said. “Jack’s agreed to be the interim general manager while we conduct our search. Once we find the right GM, Jack will return to his position as executive vice president of football operations.”
O’Brien was fired on Monday after the Texans got off to an 0-4 start. For now, Romeo Crennel is serving as the team’s interim head coach. McNair says that the team’s internal conversations to fill the HC and GM roles have yet to begin. The speculation, however, started immediately. Speculatively, some have suggested that Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy, current defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver, and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney (Deshaun Watson’s former coach at Clemson) could be in the head coaching mix. For what it’s worth, Swinney says he’s not thinking about the Texans vacancy.
On the GM side, some wondered whether Easterby would wind up with the job, given his influence within the organization. Apparently, that won’t be happening — McNair says that Easterby will remain the club’s executive vice president of football operations, with another exec having final say over the roster.
C’mon, man. He was the Chaplain for the KC Chiefs and the “Character Coach” for the Pats. It seems perfectly qualified to be the GM for the Texans.
Will still be better than BOB.
But in all seriousness that’s the best they are going to do until after the season.
In fairness, merely being someone professionally trained to get along with people probably would have prevented him from making some of BoB’s mistakes.
Are there any hot GM candidates out there? The cupboard is bare.
John Dorsey
The honest answer is we may have no idea. We rarely have that much clue as to who has exactly what responsibilities in other organizations or how people’s views/approaches/skills differ from their bosses. It’s the same reason so many hot coaching candidates end up being pale shadows of the esteemed bosses that made them hot in the first place, but moreso.
What exactly is a Hot GM ? GMs don’t win football games …. GMs are so overrated.
Look at what the Rams GM and his team have been able to do with the salary cap. They keep signing guys to big contracts and everyone scratches their heads asking where the money came from. That right there shows the value of a good GM
GMs ABSOLUTELY win and lose games. Roster construction, personnel choices, and resource allocation win and lose so many games before they even happen.
The GM who looks at their team, sees a contender, and drafts Leonard Fournette to go with Blake Bortles instead of drafting another QB or something else? That guys losing you a lot of games before they’re even played. The GM who trades DeAndre Hopkins for a running back and trades a second round pick for Brandin Cooks? That guy’s losing you games. The GM who’s willing to draft Mahomes even though he has more present needs, sit him for a year, and trade Alex Smith coming off a career year? That dude wins a ton of games.
Or think of this as a difference between good and bad GMs: Bad GMs will stand by old decisions and go down with the ship, like Jacksonville sticking with Bortles too long. A good GM will say “Oh, Hayden Hurst is worse than the tight end I drafted much later” and turn around and trade him for a second round pick and a fifth they can turn into Calais Campbell.
There are a million examples.
Personally I would want the GM that is his own man and sticks to his beliefs. I don’t want the guy who is going to flip flop every time the wind changes direction or the media and fans make noise.
Why hire DC Anthony Weaver as the head coach when the Texans defense needs help.
Makes zero sense
In fairness, how much of the defense is a scheme problem and how much of it is lousy resource allocation? Bill O’Brien kept trying to fix the secondary by trading draft picks for high picks who had already worn out their welcome with other teams. Meanwhile, they let actual good players like Mathieu and Reader go.
As a Chiefs fan I appreciate the Mathieu bungle.
Ryan Pace was born in Texas. Hopefully the Bears allow him to become a candidate for the GM job in Houston.