{"id":9652,"date":"2020-03-20T00:05:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T00:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2020-03-20T20:57:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:57:43","slug":"houston-texans-head-coach-bill-obrien-should-be-furious-with-his-general-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/nfl\/houston-texans-head-coach-bill-obrien-should-be-furious-with-his-general-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Texans Head Coach Bill O\u2019Brien Should Be Furious with his General Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BY ADAM GREENE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEither he goes or I go!\u201d Bill\nO\u2019Brien should scream at Houston Texans owner Janice McNair. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Brien isn\u2019t the best coach to\nbegin with. Actually, he\u2019s kind of garbage so he should know\nthere\u2019s absolutely no chance he can get the Texans to the Super\nBowl without star players. After discovering that his general manager\nhas traded away his second best offensive player and one of the three\nbest wide receivers in the league to the Arizona Cardinals for\nrunning back David Johnson, he should make it perfectly clear. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He can not win under these\nconditions. For head coach Bill O\u2019Brien\u2019s sake, he should\nimmediately demand the Texans fire and replace their general manager,\nBill O\u2019Brien. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did the Texans get here? A team\nwith so much talent that they have managed, in spite of his best\nefforts at gameday coaching, strategy and play design, to keep Bill\nO\u2019Brien employed for\u2026 checks notes\u2026 SIX YEARS! Good God. Since\n2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean, Barack Obama was president\nthen. That\u2019s like two global pandemics ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June of last year, O\u2019Brien\nfound himself in a power struggle with the team\u2019s former GM Brian\nGaine. One in which Gaine, in spite of being qualified and employed\nin NFL front offices (including the Texans\u2019) somehow lost. Gaine\nwas shot out the airlock and landed in Buffalo as their senior\npersonnel advisor. A team that went 10-6 last season, made the\npostseason and nearly upset the Texans in the playoffs. Houston held\nthem off 22-19 in spite of having them outmanned at nearly every\nposition on the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But leave it to Bill O\u2019Brien to\nfix that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since he was selected in the first\nround of the 2013 NFL Draft, Hopkins has only twice not crossed 1,000\nyards receiving. Even when he didn\u2019t hit the 1,000-yard mark in\n2016 with Brock Osweiler and Tom Savage as his quarterbacks, he still\ncaught 78 passes and four touchdowns. He led the league in TD catches\nin 2017 with 13 and last year caught 104 passes for 1,165 yards and\nseven touchdowns. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Texans were forced to come\nfrom behind (down 13-0 at the half) to beat the Bills in the\nplayoffs, it was Hopkins who teamed up with Deshaun Watson, arguably\none of the top five quarterbacks in the NFL, to make it happen. He\nfinished with six catches for 90 yards and a score in spite of being\nall but blanked on the stat sheet in the first half. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s who O\u2019Brien traded away. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And who did he get?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Johnson, a running back with\ninjury issues that hasn\u2019t had a 1,000-yard season since 2016. Last\nyear Johnson started nine games, played in 13 and rushed for 345\nyards and two touchdowns while catching 36 passes for 370 yards and\nfour touchdowns. All while holding the then fourth-biggest running\nback contract in the league at $13 million a season. After the Los\nAngeles Rams cut Todd Gurley, it\u2019s now the third biggest RB\ncontract. That\u2019s what Houston just added to its cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Texans also received second and\nfourth round picks from Arizona. I\u2019m sure general manager Bill\nO\u2019Brien knows exactly what to do with those. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t the first time O\u2019Brien\nhas ridded his team of one of its four best players. Last year, he\nshipped star edge rusher Jadaveon Clowney to the Seattle Seahawks in\nexchange for some magic beans, a couple of Carl\u2019s Jr. coupons and a\nhalf-eaten Little Debbie Pican Spinwheel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what was the reason for O\u2019Brien\u2019s\nsudden urge to consciously uncouple his team from its best wide\nreceiver? Apparently, he thought Hopkins had too\nmany kids, or girlfriends or a mix of both<\/a>. He also\nallegedly accused him of being into some shady practices, comparing\nhim to former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some reason, Hopkins didn\u2019t\nappreciate the comparison or comments on his personal life. Instead\nof mending that fence and maybe staying off Hopkins\u2019 Instagram,\nO\u2019Brien decided his team needed to acquire one of the worst running\nback contracts in league history and send Deshaun Watson out to\nbattle with no receiver he could really count on. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a bold GM move, to say the least. Let\u2019s see how head coach Bill O\u2019Brien handles it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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