I just read 3 articles on this in the Chronicle - Sunday's paper.
Brian T Smith - describes OB as "difficult to get along with" and wonders why the McNairs keep ceding him a little bits of more power as the years go by.... That the Texans should hire the best GM for the job and not who OB wants. Bottom line - he wonders if the McNairs know how to win....
Jerome Solomon wonders why OB hasn't been fired yet, that Gaine was not a McNair hire but an OB hire.
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Maybe Gaine was too stubborn. O’Brien definitely is.
Being loud and unbending doesn’t make a person more right. O’Brien makes confident, wronger than wrong calls almost every Sunday during football season.
Two hardheads battling over decisions is not the atmosphere Bob McNair envisioned, cultivated and demanded.
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John McClain mentions that the Texans will have three GM's on the payroll (Smith/Gaine/new guy) and that the Texans considered Gaine a better personnel man than a GM.
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McNair, the team’s chairman and chief executive officer who has been overseeing the organization for the last two years while his late father, Bob McNair, battled cancer, made the decision to fire Gaine. It wasn’t a knee-jerk reaction but one he considered for several weeks.
Whether you agree or disagree, McNair thought Gaine was a better personnel man than a general manager. Rather than going into another season hoping the situation would improve, McNair elected to fire Gaine with 3½ years left on his contract.
Although it won’t fall under his job title, expect O’Brien to gain more influence over departments that usually come under the auspices of the general manager.
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