Sure, but people rarely know who a franchise QB will be before the draft. The ratio of franchise QBs to top QB picks who teams expected them to be a franchise QB is probably less than 1:6. In retrospect, most of those picks weren’t worth 10 players.
It’s a hard evaluation, and if there’s a team who’s convinced themselves that they’ve solved that evaluation, let them give you multiple picks for their brilliance.
I don’t know. The Texans haven’t exactly knocked it out of the park with the first pick.
I guess if you don’t think you know what you’re doing, it doesn’t matter anyway. You could just as easily trade the number one pick for a bucket of balls.
Or you could say it’s an in exact science, and you’re better off taking lots of players, and have a pretty decent Bill Bellicek career.
It’s not an exact science but if you go in with the attitude of “we’re really unsure if we’re very good at this”, you’ve already lost at life and it probably doesn’t matter what you do.
How big a bucket are we talking here?
No shock, but Lovie was fired after the game.
You couldn’t fill a thimble with everything McClain knows about football or the NFL. He’s been covering it for 100+ years, and there are toddlers who know more than he does.
Hello? Is this Poorly Aged Things? I have a poorly aged thing…
Only a horribly mismanaged team would fire coaches back-to-back after one season each. And what evidence would he have ever seen that the Texans are horribly mismanaged?
I’m sure they’ll have no trouble hiring a competent replacement.
McClain knows a ton about football, he’s just a dumb ass neck, and his job as he sees it is to make bold pronouncements that will inevitably leave him exposed to this sort of ridicule. He could have said The Texans would be idiots to make Lovie a one and done… and he would have been right, but he didn’t. So here we are.
Before the Texans came into existence to torment all of us for all our days, McClain covered the NFL at large and he was good at it. He knows everyone and covered that beat with surprising alacrity. But as a guy covering the local team he was hilariously terrible. He and virtually all of the other local reporters, members of the lackey press all of them, would and still do routinely get scooped by national media or media of opposing teams. It’s pretty funny that the Texans have always been fairly hostile to the local press given what a bunch of pathetic ass lickers they all are. If they were situated in a real city with a real press corps they would never be able to get away with the absolutely brutal level of mismanagement they’ve shown.
Strong “UT Athletics / Austin media” parallels.
Are they going to try and hire McVey?
I don’t know what’s gonna happen with him and the Rams, but he’d be the kind of guy they want. Other names are thrown around, including DeMeco Ryans and Shane Steichen. I would imagine lots of teams are after the latter.
I like Ryans, I think he’d be good for the Texans, but I don’t know if any coach will have much success if they don’t improve the roster.
I can’t decide if I think McVey is a good coach or not.
Every coach needs talent. Vince Lombardi maybe goes 5-12 with this Texans team. They have the opportunity to upgrade quickly, and if they can convince a coach that he can make it whatever he wants, it’s not a bad gig, despite the rhetoric that Houston is just a backwater hooterville.
It has nothing to do with Houston and everything to do with McNair.
'Neck.