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David Culley was a scapegoat from the beginning.
The Texans have fired David Culley after one season. (0:54)
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The Houston Texans hired David Culley because of his ability to bring people together, according to team chairman and CEO Cal McNair.
In the news conference, neither Caserio nor McNair talked about building around Culley or his ability to lead the team into the future.
Less than a year after that news conference, the Texans are once again looking for a head coach. Culley was never intended to be the long-term solution.
The Houston Texans fired coach David Culley after he went 4-13 in his first year.
The organization showed it never intended to give Culley a chance to make it through this rebuilding period by firing him. They didn't understand the quality of the roster put together for Culley. You can guess the most likely answer, but there are damning evidence against the current ownership and front office.
The team is firing a Black head coach in a league that had just three last season and now only one (Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin) after the Miami Dolphins fired Brian Flores. Culley was the only Black head coach hired in 2021, and his firing brings to mind what happened to Steve Wilks in Arizona. The Cards had a 3-13 season in 2019.
Culley had to win games with his third-string quarterback, Davis Mills. Mills started six games because Tyrod Taylor was on injured reserve. Taylor was benched in Week 13 and replaced by Mills for the final five games of the season.
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Culley was brought in to build a positive culture and atmosphere. The punishments were handed down if players didn't comply. The suspended safety and the cut LB were both for violating team rules. The Texans will have to eat dead money from Cunningham's contract.
Firing Culley? The entire organization is in the midst of a rebuild, not just on the field.
The Texans interviewed a number of people a year ago. Eberflus turned down an interview request as well.
The job could be up for grabs again this year, with both Flores and McCown possibilities. Flores was the coach of the one team that had agreed to waive his no-trade clause.
Other possible candidates to replace Culley include the Texans passing game coach, the quarterbacks coach and the linebackers coach.
Culley may have been the best candidate the Texans could have hired. Is it possible that the rest of the potential applicants are to blame?
Who would want to coach a team coming off a four-win season with a quarterback who asked for a trade in January and was subsequently sued for sexual assault?
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The Texans have the third pick. They have to take dead money that counts against their salary cap for players who no longer play for the team. If the Texans can't trade him and he's on the active roster again in 2022, he'll count against the cap.
In his news conference before the season, Caserio said, "I will probably put my foot in my mouth for saying this, but it's not as much outcome-oriented as process-oriented, and that's what we're trying to do and build."
The Texans didn't use the final weeks of the regular season to use their own evaluation process for Culley, instead dragging it out longer than any other NFL team.
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The team owner dropped his search for a new coach because he heard Caserio was available. He hired the former director of player personnel even though he didn't know much about him.
Caserio will get to hire his second head coach in as many years. Most general managers don't get more than that during their tenure with a team, but there is reason to believe that this case might be different.
After the Texans hired Caserio, McNair said the organization was going to improve "brick by brick," and talked about how he and Caserio would work together.
The Texans won the same number of games as they did the previous year without their two biggest stars, but they showed it never was by firing Culley.
They were hoping that he would create a positive environment so that they wouldn't get defeated. Firing him after the season summed up the whole thing and might leave a bad taste in the mouths of the players in the locker room.
It is up to Caserio and McNair. They need to get this hire right. The Texans in Houston have low support. Winning cures everything, but how long of a leash will McNair give Caserio?
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