Texans GM Brian Gaine has been fired !

[chuck]

Originally Posted by barrett

If our front office gets along so poorly that they have to fire a guy on a 5 year contract after 1 year that reflects just as poorly as any other ridiculous scenario.

I'd like to think that they decided that he just sucked at his job and decided to cut bait quickly rather than wait around for eight or ten years to see if he got any better at it like Warden Robert would have done.

But who knows, this is the Texans so it's probably something monumentally stupid.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by chuck

I'd like to think that they decided that he just sucked at his job and decided to cut bait quickly rather than wait around for eight or ten years to see if he got any better at it like Warden Robert would have done.

But who knows, this is the Texans so it's probably something monumentally stupid.

I think that's the best case scenario. He was the Brock Osweiller of GMs and they decided to pay to fix their mistake.

But if that's the case how did he get hired last year?

[Arky]

Originally Posted by barrett

I think that's the best case scenario. He was the Brock Osweiller of GMs and they decided to pay to fix their mistake.
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No one knows. At least, until something leaks out about it...

We are all speculating here. At least, I am. That's what this forum is for.

Maybe Gaine wanted out... Scenario: Gaine goes to Cal and says, "I can't work with that butt-chinned mofo anymore. I want out."

The possibilities are endless....

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by barrett

I think that's the best case scenario. He was the Brock Osweiller of GMs and they decided to pay to fix their mistake.

But if that's the case how did he get hired last year?

Gaine had previously worked in the Texans' organization for 3 years before accepting the GM position, so you'd think he'd be a known quantity by now.

[painekiller]

There is a rumor that Gaine inquired into the Jets job through his agent, and McNair did not want the man leading the charge on the new direction to be looking to move on, so preemptive strike.

Now there is the chance that this is total fabricated

[chuck]

Originally Posted by painekiller

There is a rumor that Gaine inquired into the Jets job through his agent, and McNair did not want the man leading the charge on the new direction to be looking to move on, so preemptive strike.

Now there is the chance that this is total fabricated

Two things can be true at the same time, that they caught him looking to move to the Jets AND they realized that his FA signings were terrible and that he got pantsed in the draft.

Demanding accountability for performance at high levels within the organization has not been a hallmark of the Texans to date, so who knows, maybe Cal is ushering in a new paradigm. Or maybe this take is just more of my relentless optimism.

[Arky]

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.

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.

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.

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.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by Arky

... the Texans considered Gaine a better personnel man than a GM.

As they say on the interwebs, lol wut.