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Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
The Texans have made themselves a poisonous organization. They'll always be able to get front office personnel and players in free agency because jobs are so scarce, but for example Eberflus declining to even interview with them shows that the sought after guys who are definitely going to get a job somewhere are going to pass

I wouldn't be surprised if the reason Bieniemy didn't get an interview is he hung up on them or something

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Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
How is this real

https://twitter.com/ProFootballTalk/status/1350519975417667588?s=19

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

MoaM posted:

These anecdotes and stories make that workplace sound waaaaaaaay more toxic than I assumed it was.

If I'm a sought after exec or player I steer clear of the Texans until they completely clean house, maybe even including new ownership

Easterby is a huge problem but so is the culture that allowed him to do t his kind of poo poo

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
It's incredible just how badly the Texans have buried themselves trying to be the Patriots without the two guys who actually made the Patriots work

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

dirty shrimp money posted:

It kinda does. The Texans have been a below average franchise devoid of any character for its entire life. At least now it gets to be known for a unique dysfunction usually seen less in pro sports and more in European history textbooks.

I just wish it wasn't happening at the same time it's happening with the other Houston teams

This is a dire sports town right now

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

TITTIEKISSER69 posted:

Detroit South

Detroit has a lot more success than Houston tbh

Although counting the Red Wings might be cheating since there's no NHL team in Houston

e: Cleveland south would be more accurate probably

Intruder fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Jan 17, 2021

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
Trade him to the Patriots, I want to watch the league all burn to the ground

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

SKULL.GIF posted:

Astros cheating scandal continues to haunt them
Rockets Harden trade
Texans infected by Christianity

Any other teams/incidents?

Harden's one of the owners of the Houston Dash, that's about all I can think of

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
It's pretty cool that never being told no his entire life is making Cal dig his heels in and cling to Easterby that much more strongly because damnit no one tells him what to do

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

Declan MacManus posted:

especially considering the decisionmakers are a bunch of dipshits humping the patriot way

plus if you think you're in a position to lobby for a coaching candidate and you can think of a qualified minority candidate in a sport where they're woefully underrepresented, why wouldn't you

Especially for a team with a lot of questionable racial history like the Texans

Hell, their last GM was fired when it became public he was systematically removing black employees from important FO positions

Declining to even try to interview a highly sought after coach like Bieniemi is bad optics at the very least

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1350945137719914498

lol Cal is picking Easterby over Deshaun

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

Chris James 2 posted:

Texans the rare team that can lose a terrible owner and the replacement winds up even worse

Joining the Raiders in teams that are inherited by a terrible failson

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
The best part of all this is that after burning the entire organization to the ground Cal is going to get a nice $3 billion for selling the team

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
lol the Chiefs feel so bad for the Texans that they're letting them interview Bieniemy today

I wouldn't be surprised if he's assured the Chiefs he has no interest in the job

e: the relevant tweet

https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1351202691557584896

Intruder fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Jan 18, 2021

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

Grittybeard posted:

Intruder I know you've worked hard on this, but call things off. This is bad and you know it!

https://twitter.com/deshaunwatson/status/1351209917080854537

lol at this exchange

https://twitter.com/JetsIslandIG/status/1351210943649296384

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

Grand Theft Autobot posted:

JJ should come home to Wisconsin

JJ's going to end up with his brothers in Pittsburgh

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
Bookmaker doesn't have to offer odds on Houston if they think it's too likely to be too lopsided a bet

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

I want to place a bet on Easterby having some horrible scandal uncovered and another one what exactly it is.

McNair's inability to let go of Easterby is 100% "I'm the boss no one tells me what to do"

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
It's the kind of poo poo people do because they think that's what smart, devious people do

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

SKULL.GIF posted:

https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1354805090947743748

How many good players remain on the team for Easterby to alienate? I'm assuming Watt is gone too.

Cooks, Tunsil? Hargreaves?

They probably can't afford to trade both Watson and Tunsil since they both got extended before this season. Watson alone is going to be a $20m+ cap hit if they trade him and they're already $20m over the cap so they'll have to cut David Johnson, Cooks, Watt and maybe more just to get under the cap after trading Watson

They'll have to try to trade Tunsil after next season

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
Easterby furiously texting "this is god's will" to McNair every half hour

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
Well the BE SOMEONE sign has been painted over again

https://twitter.com/dtexanz/status/1356817871540809728

Intruder fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Feb 4, 2021

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
Imagine envying what the Broncos got with McDaniels

That's where Texans fans are now

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Lol someone found what’s probably Easterby or maybe Casserios burner

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnCPrepper98/with_replies

https://mobile.twitter.com/DustenCaballero/status/1357360239641849858

no loving way

incredible

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
Caserio was hired Jan 5, that account's first tweet was Jan 8

This rules

e: Behold his first ever tweet

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnCPrepper98/status/1347568023494926338

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
Such as when he calls someone's mom to tell on them

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

Grittybeard posted:

I'm curious about how your brain gets so messed up you refuse to refer to your quarterback by pronouns.

It's always 'the player' this and the player that. You can refer to Deshaun as 'he' once you've established who you're talking about, he's probably fine with that and will let you know if he isn't. Or Mr. Watson if you want to be formal or something.

Or just call him Deshaun because that's his name

SKULL.GIF posted:

It's in his name. JC Prepper 98.

I assumed the Prepper was because he went to private school

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_School

e: LMAO THE TEAM NAME IS THE PREPPERS

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
Honestly between the JC, the Preppers, the 98 and the content of the tweets it almost feels too on the nose like it's someone trolling pretending to be a burner

Can he really have used the initials of his college, the mascot of his prep school, and his year of graduation as a username for his burner?

(probably yes)

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

Declan MacManus posted:

if it was older it might be real but it’s two days after he got hired as texans gm, it’s responding to stuff like that easterby video rather than focusing on stuff that’s critical of caserio and the texans specifically, and above and beyond anything else, it hasn’t been deleted yet despite being called out as a burner

I want to believe

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Usually they don’t manage to stage a hostile takeover of a professional football team.

Yeah normally it's a hostile takeover of a federal government

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Which is worse to have as an owner, a super billionaire who treats the team as just an item in their portfolio, or a fail son?

The answer to your question lies in the thread you're posting in

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
lol this whole mess has Texans fans theorycrafting now that Deshaun signed his extension with the express intent of balling out this season to make himself attractive then forcing his way to a better team

https://www.battleredblog.com/2021/2/9/22274086/deshaun-watson-trade-speculation-a-new-theory

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
Faking retirement to avoid Lions purgatory is imminently understandable

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

fsif posted:

This is all just so baffling. Everyone sees this aw shucks rear end in a top hat coming from a mile away and no one can stop him because, like, I guess Cal thinks God sent Jack?

I 100% believe Jack led Cal into being born again and Cal will let the team die before he turns on his savior

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves

Poco posted:

i really want easterby to name himself new head coach midway through the season because it increases the chance we hear the phrase "we audibled to christ" at a press conference from zero to non-zero.

There's already a non-zero chance with Culley tbf

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
I find it highly unlikely Culley is fired within the next, say, three years unless Cal breaks Easterby's spell

When I said non-zero chance I meant the Jesus stuff

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
Cal McNair could end this instantly if he wanted to. He has to see the entire NFL world laughing at him

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
An article about Cal's failson status

https://www.battleredblog.com/real-...n-elite-failson

His entire career until his dad died was working for his dad

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
Clear eyes pure heart can't lose

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Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
He looks like he's going to show his mom all the awards he won in army today

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