Kolek planning to go pro
Are you advocating keeping Pettine?
No. I've been pretty clear that I wanted him gone.
So the Texans hire a 65 year old first time head coach, who has never been a coordinator, never called plays and was the "passing game coordinator" for a team that rarely passed the ball and when they did was pretty simplistic.And they like him because he commands the room and will be like a CEO. He will leave it to the coordinators to run the show.OK then...
Needed to do it. One of worst in NFL. Please let the replacement be someone whose coordinated good NFL ST units before. They’ve sucked forever in this area because they always hire guys with zero track record leading their own NFL unit. Time to stop on the job learning.
Dan Culley worked with Andy Reid for 16 years. He also recently worked with Sean McDermott in Buffalo. McDermott of course, also worked with Reid for a decade, some of it with Culley.
He's been a lifetime position coach. Its pretty rare for a first time coach at 60+ years old to be a success, much less someone who has never even been a coordinator before.
Lol looks like they'll be promoting from within with their #2 from the special teams staff.
Oh. My. Lord. This is why their special teams has been near bottom of the league almost every year. It is mind boggling to fire a guy because you’re unhappy with performance and feel it can be improved, only to replace him with the fired guy’s assistant. Beyond stupid!! If Drayton is qualified for the job, why was there special teams a disaster with his help coordinating???
Everybody that The one Scooper who wants Stan to replace Wojo is firing up their his talking points.
Wasn't Ron Zook promoted in the same way that Drayton was, and the special teams got even worse?
Zook did get promoted that way, but their special teams were actually decent, nothing great, under him. Probably best they’ve been in McCarthy/ LaFleur years. Think the guy you’re talking about is Shawn Slocum. Promoted from assistant after guy ahead of him was fired, and they got worse under his watch. He was terrible.
No, no. Ron Zook's special teams were abysmal too. Cost us games. Of course the punter and fg kicker were pretty good... but the coverage and return teams were abysmal.And I'm pretty sure they cost us some important games.
Confirmed Pettine won’t be renewed.
Be prepared for them to promote from within. IMO Jerry Gray was brought here on a parallel move in the off-season for a reason.And I know they like some of the other position coaches, like Jerry Montgomery on the DL, so they are going to want to keep some of those guys around.