Jack Easterby‘s stint with the Texans ended earlier this week, with the organization parting ways with their executive vice president of football operations. It sounds like Easterby’s inability to mesh with two of the team’s top decision makers ultimately led to his ousting. According to Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports, Texans head coach Lovie Smith and general manager Nick Caserio “had frozen Easterby out” of decision-making ever since the offseason.
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Easterby has seen a number of regime changes since joining the Texans in 2019, with the executive eventually being responsible for some personnel decisions. He ultimately played a major role in recruiting Caserio to Houston, with the two having previously worked together in New England. The GM has naturally taken control of personnel decisions, and it sounds like a reduced role for Easterby ultimately made him superfluous in the front office.
“My short time I worked with Jack was all good,” Smith said (via Aaron Wilson of Click2Houston.com). “He did a great job for us. Sometimes, divorce is a good thing. I’ve said that before, too.”
According to Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com, there were some hints that Easterby’s stint in Houston was coming to an end. According to Florio, there was a “perception” that Easterby was “tapping into old relationships” as he prepared his inevitable job search, with the reporter adding that the executive specifically reached out to people from former gigs “for no apparent reason.”
One team that could end up being a suitor for Easterby is the Panthers, although Florio notes that owner David Tepper may not be willing to tolerate the executive’s baggage. The 39-year-old began his NFL career as a character coach with the Chiefs and Patriots, and it remains to be seen if either organization would welcome him back.
The fact that clown was allowed to have a say in personnel decisions will always blow my mind. Team pastor to decision maker.
Character coach on teams with Aaron Hernandez, Kareem Hunt & DeShawn Watson. Come on. Why do asshats like this multiple chances? I’m starting to think any fan could of these NFL front office jobs. This moron had a franchise QB and drew up non disclosure forms instead of telling him to keep it in his pants.
Team pastor, he’s a really logical person to trust to make football decision. Logic and religion go hand in hand.
That’s a really stupid comment. Every single NFL team has non-disclosure agreements on hand for all of their players to use with interactions with other people. Why? Because we live in a litigious society. Everyone is looking to sue these guys to cash in on their earnings. They did not give non-disclosure agreements to Watson so that he can get away with sexually harassing abusing and raping women. They had no idea that was going on. All they knew was he liked his own massage therapist not the team therapist and if you’re going to use an outside therapist in a situation like that you better get a non-disclosure agreement. Because that’s how you get sued.
I know what you’re going to say. Why did they pay them money? They paid them money because it gets them grace in the media. You have to buy off the media one way or another. That’s another sad state of the current world we live in.
Imagine being another team and hiring this guy in any capacity, let alone an important one.
Character coach in New England is hilarious.
I’m obviously a Lovie Smith fan but he must have suffered a brain cramp to say “Sometimes, divorce is a good thing”. How’s he going to explain that comment when he goes home to his wife?
I’m sure his wife has known someone in a terrible marriage. He didn’t say divorce is always a good thing.
If I made that comment to my wife I’d probably miss out on an entire weekend of sports viewing just explaining to her that I wasn’t referring to our marriage…lol.
If I said that to my wife, she’d say “Yup” emphatically. (Her parents are rightfully divorced.)
Another failed NE’er that just couldn’t quite grasp the ‘Pat’s way’. Funny how that works for the last 2 decades.