Rumors

[Arky]

Anybody catching all the smoke coming off of Kirby lately?

http://www.battleredblog.com/2017/1/...g-to-part-ways

Smith unhappy with OB? OB unhappy with Smith? OB going (gone)?

[WMH]

Originally Posted by Arky

Anybody catching all the smoke coming off of Kirby lately?

http://www.battleredblog.com/2017/1/...g-to-part-ways

Smith unhappy with OB? OB unhappy with Smith? OB going (gone)?

If it is true, and the local team mouthpiece strongly denies that it is, is it really that much of a loss? He's stuck on "his" system that he knows from NE. Only problem......Brady is not walking thru the door any time soon. He seems to be unwilling to permanently put an OC in place that will shape an O around the roster he has. He did it a few times last year when they were in QB purgatory, but from what he saw of his $37MM QB in camp, he kept trying to hammer a square peg in a round hole.

I find him entertaining, mainly because he is brutally honest with the slapdick local media and doesn't always give canned response. BUT, as a HC, meh....

[Arky]

This is the speculation I'm leaning to (again, total speculation):

OB has been approached to remove Godsey after the season is over because somebody has got to take the fall for the putrid offense. OB is refusing to dismiss his buddy. An ultimatum was issued: either he goes or you both go.

Totally unsubstantiated but it is kind of fun to speculate.....

[Keith]

I like O'Brien, or at least I am still trying hard to like him, but he has done some fireable things.

The whole going for it on fourth down in the second quarter of a meaningless week 17 game with a QB sneak... not bright. Would O'Brien have called that same play with Tom Brady instead of Tom Savage? I'm guessing no.

Conspiracy theorists... Savage, now tagged as being injury prone, was he put purposefully into harm's way? Hmmm

[chuck]

Originally Posted by Keith

Conspiracy theorists... Savage, now tagged as being injury prone, was he put purposefully into harm's way? Hmmm

By BOB? BOB was the one who wanted to start Savage all along, apparently. He had BO forced on him by an incompetent GM and a dickbrained owner. Of course BOB calling a sneak for Savage was about as bright as letting Colt McCoy run a quarterback keeper into the teeth of an Alabama defense. And the results were similar.

I have no problem believing that BOB has deep issues with Rick Smith and may very well want out. RS is an idiot and a tool and is unfireable. RS has the owner's total confidence. The owner is an idiot and a tool and together he and the GM apparently can do quite a bit of damage. Like sign Ed Reed while releasing Glover Quin, put Savage on the IR after a six week injury, commit $70MM to a guy with five NFL starts, etc.

Before BOB came along we all knew that the decision making hierarchy inside the organization was a mess. It seems to have become worse. People like BOB, people from the northeast, people who went to Ivy League schools, even if they were there to play football, most people like that think that hayseeds like McNeck, even if they are billionaires, are idiots. And they're right. Parts of the US and Texas in particular feature some impressive concentrations of powerful stupidity. I can imagine that BOB wants out. Ironically, winning Saturday will make his escape path that much more complicated. Each hour that passes will signal the door to new coaching opportunities closing more and more. Who knows if there will be any head coaching vacancies left in a week.

But it would be hilarious if BOB bailed, took the last one open and left McNeck and his waterboy holding the bag.

Since the Glazer thing I've assumed that BOB is the one leaking all of this. The quotes from Zierlein have me reconsidering. It could well be coming from the waterboy instead. Most likely I think is they're both leaking, but the waterboy wouldn't be telling everyone he forced BO on BOB.

The two things I do know for a fact is 1) Pancakes is as clueless as always and 2) this bullshit should not be happening before a playoff game and that it is speaks volumes to the incompetence of ownership.

[HPF Bob]

IF Coach Foulmouth leaves and Romeo Crennel stays, I think the sum difference for the Texans is zero. Foulmouth was supposed to be the offensive genius from the Belichick tree. The offense stinks. If he leaves, the worst that will happen with the offense is that it will still stink.

Crennel has been the one in charge of the defense - the one aspect out of three (offense and special teams the others) - that is carrying the other two. True, O'Brien brought Crennel with him and he might take him if he leaves but nonetheless, there's a Super Bowl-winning D-Coord that is suddenly looking for work and might just be thrilled to come back to Houston if the position is open.

As for the rest of your diatribe laced with outright bigotry and nonsense (Rick Smith is Virginia-born, Pennsylvania-raised, Indiana-educated and Colorado-trained), he has hit and missed at the GM Wheel-of-fortune at about the same rate as the rest of the NFL's GMs and what he has to show for it is a perennial .500 team. Not what the fans want but a hell of a lot better than some NFL fanbases have.

Should he be in charge of the team's personnel decisions? That's debatable. Is he better than Chatty Casserly? I'd probably swallow hard and say yes. Osweiler has a chance this week to take the Texans as far as they've ever gone. That might seem to justify the "upgrade" from Brian Hoyer in games that truly matter. Nobody thinks they will beat the Patriots should they win but the Texans have never had a QB capable of that, not Carr nor Schaub.

O'Brien was the same reckless get that Osweiler was. For a "conservative" owner, his biggest mistakes seems to be impulsive fixes that might have been better in retrospect had they waited for somebody better instead of being in an overheated hurry to get the one guy they coveted.