As a Texans fan, I thought Culley was abused by the horrible upper management. I like the man and thought he was badly treated but he did his best. The team played hard for him. Thanks for defending a good man who deserved better.
He is set to make 17 million dollars total over the next 3 years after the Texans have fired him, plus his 5 million this year. Not bad severance pay for getting set up to fail. He should def get another chance elsewhere.
dude im a saints fan and this just looks like to me a couple of pretty bad things,starting with watson seeming to ask for a black coach...texans say no...hire a black coach after a while cause of the crapstorm and then completely destroy the roster and try to tank the team so the guys coaching CAREER is ruined cause hey he got his shot right? horrible. Culley must be one hell of a coach to win the games he did and the way the team won them .Hell to even show up for work for that roster my God. I can honestly say that i dont even think Bellichek himself couldve gotten as much from that roster. It looks to me like the Texans are not only tanking the season for draft picks but tanking the team so they can move it to San Antonio or something cause they know the nfl will always give houston another franchise theyre too big a population not to. Maybe he wants to move to some other market besides that im not sure but one things for certain coach culley deserved to be lauded and rewarded for his efforts not fired. I know what watson means now about Houston's ownership.
So true. Culley was good and the players played good for him. Very wrong from upper management. By the way, it starts with upper management. Time to clean house.
Culley got screwed BUT he’ll still pocket $22 million from this year and his buyout. As a lifetime assistant I would suspect that’s close to what he’s made in his whole career. That’s a nice retirement package at least.
He's black so all that don't matter ... Caldwell had the lions at 9-7. An get hired Matt Patricia... If your black you either get no chance or your given trash an expected to turn into gold
It's weird. After the 2019 season, the Texans had been to 6 playoffs in 9 years, winning 4 playoff games, and had a franchise QB. Not a model franchise, but certainly not an embarrassment. Now, they seem set up for The Dark Decade.
Whats insane they were superbowl dark horses with one of the best rosters for a couple years down to one of the worst teams in the league insane nobody even tired to stop Bill O'Brian at all from many of his horrible decisions
@@mikehurt3290 shoot thats exactly what they were i remember we played them in new orleans at home and man were they good came right down to the wire and i think we won by a field goal but the game was in new orleans i feel like we lose to that same team in Houston. They were so talented man and at so many levels. it almost seems like something happened and a switch was flipped when jadaveon clowney turned out to be a bust at #1 overall. Like they just said screw it and decided to tryand start over with a new coach new team new city...makes no sense just looks like the owner grabbing his nuts while flipping off the players and millions of fans that want to see the team win. Sad...they were a super team...talent at almost every level.
Culley was never hired to be "the guy". Regardless of the fact that the Texans overachieved for a team with the most talentless roster in the league, Culley was hired only to be the fall guy while the Texans continue their search for "their guy".
But it makes sense to keep him around until they find their guy. Unless they have a marquee name lined up, this will hurt them. Same thing with the Dolphins firing Flores.
@@jacobjohnson4763 Yes, and yes. Just think -- in a few short months, Urban Meyer will be the HC of the Texans, while Chicago will get either Eric Bienemy or Byron Leftwich.
David Culley got the job because no one else wanted it. Now he is gone because the Texans are looking to upgrade at HC. It’s unfair to him and hopefully this isn’t his last chance to be a Head Coach, but it probably is. “What didn’t he do” is a pretty accurate take away from his firing. I don’t know what else to say…
Bullshit. They interviewed Flores right after. Culley had plenty of positives and negatives, but was always a placeholder. They want to hire one of their friends from the Patriot coaching tree…who happens to be black. That’s not racist. Try harder.
Can't say I blame you. I stopped my emotional investment in the Lions when they fired Jim Caldwell after 3 winning seasons in 4 years and 2 playoff berths
I thought Coach Culley did an amazing job given all the crap he had to deal with. The Texans played hard. General Mills was obviously coached well. The Texans are probably going to bad as long as their ownership doesn't change.
I worry for Dan Campbell for the same reason. Now granted, not too many head coaches up to this point have earned their place in Detroit with their track records; but I expect more from the Fords as far as having Campbell's back. _Campbell_ had _his_ team playing hard and hustling, despite a cavernous lack of talent, and he deserves at least two more seasons to get the Lions competing for playoff spots year-in and year-out. Campbell is a Lion through and through. And the Fords had better give him a lot more latitude than the McCaskey's or Texans ownership.
This reminds me of the time the Jets fired a rookie head coach who had improved the team from the previous year to make room for a veteran who was fired by the Eagles after a disastrous season. The coach that got fired....??? Pete Carroll
This would assume the owner and gm are honest with themselves. Power and ego tend to hand in hand, especially with more dysfunctional franchises. Some people just don’t live in reality.
They were SLIGHLY above expectation and honestly Lovie Smith deserves a lot of the credit getting that defense to play at a higher level than was expected.
Jim Caldwell was 24-8 his first two seasons in Indy and won the division his first two years. He went 2-14 in his third year and was fired. Mind you he had a losing season because Manning was out the whole season. I dont race bait but black coaches are given less of a leeway, Caldwell, Rhodes, Wilks, damn Vic Fangio first two years were nearly identical to Vance Joseph but Vic was given a third year Joseph can after two
It’s amazing how NOBODY outside of houston understands why Culley was hired. He had a relationship with Watson before he was hired. The team hoped that would sway Watson to show up. When Watson didn’t change his mind, Culley was done. It was a gamble to hire one of the only people Watson “liked” who was available, and when it didn’t work, Culley was finished.
I wonder why Houston gave him a 5 year deal then 🤔, if they knew they were only going to give him 1 year to try to sway Watson seems like they wouldn't have given him such a long deal
A good leader/coach has the ability to get the best out of the team regardless. The team played lights out for Culley . I'm a bears fan...I will take him. Nagy lost the room years ago...Cully is the HC we need.
I agree, our trash organization doesn’t deserve him. Bears are much better than my Texans and the Bears have struggled lately. That’s how much worse we are than everyone else. We rank 32 out of 32. We suck from top to bottom. Step into my office Cal McNair cause your freaking fired!!
@@thokim84 The only thing I can think of is owners and management know that Watson's legal troubles are going to settle out of court so he'll be back next year, and Flores would be who Watson wants as his coach. Trade talks fell through with the Dolphins but now the Texans can keep Watson and get Flores. Problem is, if Flores had power struggles in Miami he's not walking into a better situation in Houston. The Texans don't want to lose Watson, so they need to appease him. This might be a desperation move if Flores is their HC target. Just my opinion.
@@mattsternberg9428 Wow that’s an interesting theory. Imagine if Watson stayed after all😂! Let’s see how this pans out - I think your theory has merit!
He was a stop-gap for 2 years. He did some really good things and over-achieved but the GM wants Brian Flores. If Flores didn't get fired, Culley still has a job
@@MillennialBro we love yall too ❤ only time im not rooting for the Browns is when they're playing the Lions and even if we lose, im not too mad cause I know how exciting a single win is for teams like us lol.
@@GarrusN7 you are right I don't know much about football but it's not like it hasn't happened before if I'm not mistaken 07 lions and 16 browns went winless
You are one of like 4 people I’ve seen in the comments of national media shows, who actually knows why he’s gone. He was done the minute Watson said he’s still not coming back
He was. He knew this was a temporary hire but he pretended like it wasn't to try and appease Watson. He knew the whole time that he was just using Culley to try and get his QB back and if it didn't work he'd discard him. Nice move chaplain. A few more like that and I know a church that might offer you a diocese...
Brian Flores became available, and the Texans GM knows him from New England. That's why Culley was let go. But the team did exceed their low expectations.
Goodell must be panicking now that there is only one black coach now in the NFL. Flores has a lot of leverage to demand a great contract wherever he goes.
no one is stopping to think and realize that was the whole problem...the texans have been tanking ever since they were forced into the deshaun extension. Culley did not tank he won about 4 more games than he was supposed to and this pissed the texans off.
That Caserio headset story is bonkers crazy. How is this different then when Jerry Jones tries to interfere with the cowboys. This is not going to end well.
Here's another weird (and sad) tidbit: I live in the Houston area, so I listen to the local sports radio (wish I didn't have to, cause I don't root for them). The talking heads spent the last year talking about how bad Nick Casario is at his job, and making fun of how the perception is that he's trying to make Houston into "New England South" when he hired O'Brien, and doing things the Patriots Way (which fits what RE said about him being in the headsets during games), and the first thing these idiots do when they hear of the firing of Culley is defend the organization, saying stuff like "we all knew this was a one-and-done hire" and "Culley was in over his head," treating a man that has coached in football as long or longer than many of us have even cared about football like he was a wet-behind-the-ears hot shot. A lot of teams would do better to hire Culley than what they have. He gets his guys to play hard, and that seems to be hard to do with professionals that shouldn't have to be motivated to play that way. Houston sports are a joke, no matter which one you pick.
Culley was put into a no win situation. He wasn't the reason the Texans were terrible. A new coach won't fix anything. A new coach won't win more games. This is just one of innumerable reasons the Texans are a terrible franchise. (It starts at the top with the nutjob owner and the man whispering in his ear)
The Houston Texans organization is embarrassing. I wish the owners had the spine to send some of the bad apple owners out to pasture (McNair, Snyder, Spanos).
Eisen should pay attention to the media in Texas. Two theories are Culley was a placeholder of sorts until Houston found someone better or he was hired because Watson wanted a black coach. Whatever the truth is Culley doesn't seem to have ever been the Texan's genuine choice. He did a decent job with all the Watson drama and a weak roster.
Thats just it the roster wasnt only weak it was beyond DECIMATED! Please allow me to explain: decimation was the ancient roman practice of taking a group of people and judging all of them for a particular crime by killing one out of every ten of them and the survivors are forgiven and continue to serve.The texans have suffered a rate of attrition beyond that as they have torn down and gutted this roster completely. So the roster wasnt just weak it was one of the absolute worst opening day rosters for a football team this century! So for a guy to take that kind of roster with all the bad blood between ownership and players and the constant Deshaun watson circus a roster DESIGNED to fail and SQUEEZING 4 or 5 wins out of it it all why keeping a good and professional attitude then it appears to the rest of the league that you have caught that rarest of things : lightning in a bottle . You found your coach Texans why keep looking? Theyre going to destroy the team further because that type of success wasnt what they planned for?Makes no sense. Me im a saints fan and i thank God for organizations like the texans,browns,Jaguars,Giants,Lions etc etc that keeps my saints out the basement.
It's times like this when you can tell the people that pay attention versus the ones that don't if you look at the local media not one person is surprised or mad about this but the national circuit as usual doesn't look at things closely whatsoever
I can’t feel bad for the guy. Sure he lost his job but he had a 4 year guaranteed contract. He’s gonna make 22-25 million over the next 3 years. I’m still trying to figure out how I can make a fraction of that for not working
i wouldnt be surprised that this is cause and effect from miami firing flores. They must see flores as an upgrade, and might give them a small glimmer of hope to get watson back in the building since he said hed play for flores
Rich Before the season: "What are the Texans doing??? Hire David Culley, he doesn't have the resume to be a head coach!" *Texans go 4-13* Rich now: "Gee wilikees, how could they fire a coach who did his best!" Yeah okay there Rich. Laying the seeds for the Texans coverage during the DW trade.
You have to understand that culley was never ever meant to be HC for more than a year in HOU. Im indifferent towards the decision but that's what it is
It’s wild they used this coach to answer all the Watson questions then just fire him. He did everything asked of him and still got fired. It’s a shame he wanted a shot, and took this shot knowing dam well he wasn’t gonna survive
Culley deserved better,he had a garbage squad that lacked talent and stars and he had them ready to play every game,it was obvious that he was a stop gap coach until the roster would improve but didn't expect him to be fired after 1 season.thank you coach culley I hope you find an NFL job to your liking
Considering he didn't have his star QB and lost JJ Watt he did better than expected. Some coaches you can see going, some I think is the GM trying to save his job by firing the coach. I am not sure what either Miami or Houston expect to be able to hire for next season.
I don’t know what Rich doesn’t understand… David Culley was only hired because they hoped that hiring a black coach would make Watson happy. When that didn’t work, he was clearly expendable… This is as plain as day…
how long you been a raiders fan? Why do you want to keep your interim head coach im just curious cause around the league we aint heard much about him. True yall snuck in the playoffs but should've been a higher seed with the start y'all had.I say if you all win one playoff game he has a 50/50 chance if you all win two playoff games about a 75% chance of staying.
Tony Dungey predicts Brian Flores is the frontrunner for the Texans job. Makes a lot of sense and may convince Watson to stay put if he can get his creepy legal issues resolved.
It really does seem like Eisen doesn't get it. Culley did do everything asked of him. He got paid handsomely for it. 22m dollars to have an uncomfortable year as a head coach in the NFL. Answering dumb questions from the media and coaching a surely losing team. It's that simple. He was not the coach of the future, could he have maybe stayed next year? Sure, but if you already had a coach in mind that you wanted for the long term future, you would want to lock him up this offseason if he's available.
Everyone knew he was a bridge coach. Media bashed Houston for hiring him last year. Now they bash them for firing him. If you watched any Houston games you could tell he was in over his head. Mismanaged games. Never knew when to call timeouts. He even admitted he had nothing to do with the halftime adjustments in the last game. Look he was a great guy. Loved by the team and ya i could’ve seen him back another year but it’s a business. He simply wasn’t a good head coach
yeah i know i keep saying the same thing buddy i think that was the problem...they gutted that team to tank and weren't supposed to win as many games as last year.Culley was in the way of their madden franchise rebuild fantasy...
It was actually fun to watch the Texans this year. They played with a wild abandon & heart. There were no “Stars” with their huge egos & pompous attitudes & bombastic self promotion. There were players who wanted to play & a coach who knew how to use them. Shame he was fired
Culley got screwed but got paid so really he didn't cuz I'm guessing he's respected enough that he'll get another job if he wants one....They actually did him a favor.
What’s there not to get? Culley’s job was secure until the news about Brian Gloves came out. It’s a business, stop taking things so personal. The guy that got fired didn’t
The Texans managment is a mess. They still think that they are going to get 3 first round picks for Watson. Mills looked good. The bright lights are not to much for him to handle.
The Houston Texans were founded by a football loving billionaire named Bob McNair. He passed away and left the team to his son Cal. Cal has NO passion for the game or the team like his father did. Culley was a mediocre coach. Week after week, Culley, "It's my fault, me and my coaches did NOT prepare the team for game day".
I swear the only reason these can’t believe when these coaches get fired is cause they’d have nothing to talk about. The guys in his 60s and never been a head coach.
The Texans have had 3 Head Coaches in the last 7 years. The Pittsburgh Steelers have had 3 Head Coaches in the last 52 years. Which is the more stable and cohesive organization?
This decision doesn't make sense, especially with a guaranteed salary. Culley did the best he could with what he had. He should have been given more time.
They gave O'Brien what 5 years and they gave him 1? Makes sense. They gave late coach Marty Schottenheimer 1 year with my Redskins and he finished 8-8 and wasn't brought back.
Texans did what the 49ers did with they hired Chip Kelly. He was a filler until good coaches were available. Nobody wants to go to the Texans last year as coach when they weren't sure about the QB situation.
So the Houston fans are supposed to suffer through bad game management, lack of adjustments and anemic offense because the coach is a nice guy? Culley will be just fine. The real question is not that he was fired, but why was he hired in the first place?
Dave Culley got screwed plain and simple. Maybe a little dose of why Watson didn’t want to be there in the first place. Culley was the only guy who would take the job. He put his heart and soul into it. The team bought into him. And now he’s gone for absolutely no reason.
As a Texans fan, I thought Culley was abused by the horrible upper management. I like the man and thought he was badly treated but he did his best. The team played hard for him. Thanks for defending a good man who deserved better.
He deserved more then a 1 year Tenure considering the team that was given to him
He is set to make 17 million dollars total over the next 3 years after the Texans have fired him, plus his 5 million this year. Not bad severance pay for getting set up to fail. He should def get another chance elsewhere.
In the long run, they did him a favor. Their front office is horrid.
dude im a saints fan and this just looks like to me a couple of pretty bad things,starting with watson seeming to ask for a black coach...texans say no...hire a black coach after a while cause of the crapstorm and then completely destroy the roster and try to tank the team so the guys coaching CAREER is ruined cause hey he got his shot right? horrible. Culley must be one hell of a coach to win the games he did and the way the team won them .Hell to even show up for work for that roster my God. I can honestly say that i dont even think Bellichek himself couldve gotten as much from that roster. It looks to me like the Texans are not only tanking the season for draft picks but tanking the team so they can move it to San Antonio or something cause they know the nfl will always give houston another franchise theyre too big a population not to. Maybe he wants to move to some other market besides that im not sure but one things for certain coach culley deserved to be lauded and rewarded for his efforts not fired. I know what watson means now about Houston's ownership.
So true. Culley was good and the players played good for him. Very wrong from upper management. By the way, it starts with upper management. Time to clean house.
Culley got screwed BUT he’ll still pocket $22 million from this year and his buyout. As a lifetime assistant I would suspect that’s close to what he’s made in his whole career. That’s a nice retirement package at least.
Exactly, no team wanted him as a Head Coach, Texans just needed someone for a year.
I doubt he'll retire and with the showing they had this year somebody will have some kinda job for him if they want it
A 9 minute Rich Eisen rant is ALWAYS a must-watch
Like your high school history teacher their first day back after a sub left a horrible report
It lowers your IQ. Rich Eisen should be avoided if you value your brain cells.
He sucks. A slanted, inaccurate history recap. As usual.
The Houston Texans played the hardest I have ever seen this guy was loved by the team
He's black so all that don't matter ... Caldwell had the lions at 9-7. An get hired Matt Patricia... If your black you either get no chance or your given trash an expected to turn into gold
@@user-sh1do4sp8e yea the lions haven’t gotten anywhere close to his record since
It's weird. After the 2019 season, the Texans had been to 6 playoffs in 9 years, winning 4 playoff games, and had a franchise QB. Not a model franchise, but certainly not an embarrassment. Now, they seem set up for The Dark Decade.
Whats insane they were superbowl dark horses with one of the best rosters for a couple years down to one of the worst teams in the league insane nobody even tired to stop Bill O'Brian at all from many of his horrible decisions
@@mikehurt3290, and O’Brian will get another H/C gig soon. He trashed the Texans. SMH
@@mikehurt3290 shoot thats exactly what they were i remember we played them in new orleans at home and man were they good came right down to the wire and i think we won by a field goal but the game was in new orleans i feel like we lose to that same team in Houston. They were so talented man and at so many levels. it almost seems like something happened and a switch was flipped when jadaveon clowney turned out to be a bust at #1 overall. Like they just said screw it and decided to tryand start over with a new coach new team new city...makes no sense just looks like the owner grabbing his nuts while flipping off the players and millions of fans that want to see the team win. Sad...they were a super team...talent at almost every level.
bring back the house of pain
Sounds like the Falcons. They had a Super Bowl won, but blew it, won a wildcard game the next year, but haven't been to the playoffs since.
Culley was never hired to be "the guy". Regardless of the fact that the Texans overachieved for a team with the most talentless roster in the league, Culley was hired only to be the fall guy while the Texans continue their search for "their guy".
But it makes sense to keep him around until they find their guy. Unless they have a marquee name lined up, this will hurt them. Same thing with the Dolphins firing Flores.
@@jacobjohnson4763 Yes, and yes. Just think -- in a few short months, Urban Meyer will be the HC of the Texans, while Chicago will get either Eric Bienemy or Byron Leftwich.
Yup
@@RickMartinUA-cam Yes. I was joking.
Yes, finally, someone that understands! They will hire another black couch, and everyone will shut up.
David Culley got the job because no one else wanted it. Now he is gone because the Texans are looking to upgrade at HC. It’s unfair to him and hopefully this isn’t his last chance to be a Head Coach, but it probably is. “What didn’t he do” is a pretty accurate take away from his firing. I don’t know what else to say…
Racism and Prejudice are the reasons.
Bullshit. They interviewed Flores right after. Culley had plenty of positives and negatives, but was always a placeholder. They want to hire one of their friends from the Patriot coaching tree…who happens to be black. That’s not racist. Try harder.
I have been a Houston fan since the expansion.. I think I am done with them, permanently.
Can't say I blame you. I stopped my emotional investment in the Lions when they fired Jim Caldwell after 3 winning seasons in 4 years and 2 playoff berths
Don't blame you one bit. I'm still mad about the Oilers.
Meh Cully was an average Coach
The idea of a Texans' "fan" having a final straw is somehow irresistibly hilarious to me.🤣
@@oscararredondo9672 that may be, but he deserves more respect than he has gotten from the organization.
I thought Coach Culley did an amazing job given all the crap he had to deal with. The Texans played hard. General Mills was obviously coached well. The Texans are probably going to bad as long as their ownership doesn't change.
I worry for Dan Campbell for the same reason. Now granted, not too many head coaches up to this point have earned their place in Detroit with their track records; but I expect more from the Fords as far as having Campbell's back. _Campbell_ had _his_ team playing hard and hustling, despite a cavernous lack of talent, and he deserves at least two more seasons to get the Lions competing for playoff spots year-in and year-out. Campbell is a Lion through and through. And the Fords had better give him a lot more latitude than the McCaskey's or Texans ownership.
he sucked and u know it baby boy
just watched a video about how dysfunctional the Dolphins are, mostly because of ownership. I think the Texans have them beat.
Facts
Good. I hope the Texas win 2 games every year and no one is in the seats until owner changes.
This reminds me of the time the Jets fired a rookie head coach who had improved the team from the previous year to make room for a veteran who was fired by the Eagles after a disastrous season. The coach that got fired....???
Pete Carroll
They hired Rich Kotite after Carroll? Yikes.
Only problem is Culley is near the end of his coaching career. He waited so long for his chance only to be fed to the wolves...
An honest self assessment when in charge is to ask: did I put my subordinate in a position to succeed?
The owner and GM can't think they did.
This would assume the owner and gm are honest with themselves. Power and ego tend to hand in hand, especially with more dysfunctional franchises. Some people just don’t live in reality.
@@meowww7308 Took the words right out of my mouth.
They don't think that they did because clearly that was never their intention.
I think the Texans out played the expectations most people had. I feel bad for David Culley.
I deadass thought at BEST they’d win one game
aww maybe you can go give him a hug baby boy
They were SLIGHLY above expectation and honestly Lovie Smith deserves a lot of the credit getting that defense to play at a higher level than was expected.
David Culley is to the Texans what Steve Wilks was to the Cardinals. No one should be surprised.
Jim Caldwell was 24-8 his first two seasons in Indy and won the division his first two years. He went 2-14 in his third year and was fired. Mind you he had a losing season because Manning was out the whole season. I dont race bait but black coaches are given less of a leeway, Caldwell, Rhodes, Wilks, damn Vic Fangio first two years were nearly identical to Vance Joseph but Vic was given a third year Joseph can after two
Nice pull!
@@cesareantonio6013 Wow! Good stuff. Never watched a Lions game after what they did to Jim Caldwell. I didn’t realize how often this happened.
@@iali00 Jim Caldwell had to be fired
@@Illtechnica the difference is that Caldwell had to be fired
It’s amazing how NOBODY outside of houston understands why Culley was hired. He had a relationship with Watson before he was hired. The team hoped that would sway Watson to show up. When Watson didn’t change his mind, Culley was done. It was a gamble to hire one of the only people Watson “liked” who was available, and when it didn’t work, Culley was finished.
Critical thought and Rich Eisen have never been in the same sentence
I wonder why Houston gave him a 5 year deal then 🤔, if they knew they were only going to give him 1 year to try to sway Watson seems like they wouldn't have given him such a long deal
That makes no sense
@@jerryalexander8803 Only two years of that money was guaranteed.
@@GarrusN7 and yet he only had 1 year..
A good leader/coach has the ability to get the best out of the team regardless. The team played lights out for Culley . I'm a bears fan...I will take him. Nagy lost the room years ago...Cully is the HC we need.
Another Bears fan that agrees with you
As a Lions fan I hope you don’t hire Cully...
i said same thing in New Orleans we could definitely use an assistant like that.
@@djquinn11 thats terrible lol
I agree, our trash organization doesn’t deserve him. Bears are much better than my Texans and the Bears have struggled lately. That’s how much worse we are than everyone else. We rank 32 out of 32. We suck from top to bottom. Step into my office Cal McNair cause your freaking fired!!
I don't think it's a coincidence that Culley got fired after Flores became available.
He still got screwed over, though.
Flores is top of the heap for current vacancies. I don't know how he would choose Houston.
@@thokim84 The only thing I can think of is owners and management know that Watson's legal troubles are going to settle out of court so he'll be back next year, and Flores would be who Watson wants as his coach. Trade talks fell through with the Dolphins but now the Texans can keep Watson and get Flores. Problem is, if Flores had power struggles in Miami he's not walking into a better situation in Houston. The Texans don't want to lose Watson, so they need to appease him. This might be a desperation move if Flores is their HC target. Just my opinion.
Flores would not go to Houston.
@@mattsternberg9428 Wow that’s an interesting theory. Imagine if Watson stayed after all😂! Let’s see how this pans out - I think your theory has merit!
@@randallmadison9910 ESPN's reporting he's interviewing.
Why many of us love Rich Eisen? The man has integrity and class.
texans are trying to take the title "leagues most dysfunctional franchise " tag from the Jets...
and they are looking good at it
*The Washington Football Team has entered the chat*
@@ghmongo NY Giants coming through the doors of that conference room right after WFT.
Sleepy Joe Douglas won't allow the Jets to lose that crown
jags enter stage right
Detroit Lions win this award every time.
He was a stop-gap for 2 years. He did some really good things and over-achieved but the GM wants Brian Flores. If Flores didn't get fired, Culley still has a job
As a Browns fan, this is good. We need more Cleveland Brownses out there in the NFL.
As a Lions fan, we agree.
@@BenjiWantsBliss LOL I love you Lions fans. You get it!!!
@@MillennialBro we love yall too ❤ only time im not rooting for the Browns is when they're playing the Lions and even if we lose, im not too mad cause I know how exciting a single win is for teams like us lol.
As a Ravens fan, that was funny! Browns fan 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
I was shocked he was fired because I truly believed at the beginning of the season the Texans were gonna go 0 and 17 I think he did a decent job
Anyone who thought they'd go 0-17 doesn't know football or listens to the idiot media way too much.
@@GarrusN7 you are right I don't know much about football but it's not like it hasn't happened before if I'm not mistaken 07 lions and 16 browns went winless
He was hired to get fired. I don’t understand how some people didn’t see that in the beginning.
They hired him to please Watson, didn’t work, he’s out
You are one of like 4 people I’ve seen in the comments of national media shows, who actually knows why he’s gone. He was done the minute Watson said he’s still not coming back
Why wasn’t Nick Caserio aware that he had “philosophical differences” with David Culley when he hired him??? 🤔🤷🏻♂️🙄🤦🏻♂️
Because as a coach of color, he was hired to appease Watson, before Watson's off the field issues unfolded
Why do married couples get divorced?
@@DTA-dh5rk bingo
@Jrg Vsqz LOLLLLLLLL you still believe Jesus wasn't a historical person
He was. He knew this was a temporary hire but he pretended like it wasn't to try and appease Watson. He knew the whole time that he was just using Culley to try and get his QB back and if it didn't work he'd discard him. Nice move chaplain. A few more like that and I know a church that might offer you a diocese...
If I was Mills, might just request a trade. Wouldn’t want to develop in a system like this
A few decent teams could use a QB!
3rd qb dont have that kind of power.
Request a trade? Good luck with that
Nah, Mills is like " I can be the man here and make millions a year, Watson is a dumbass" !
Brian Flores became available, and the Texans GM knows him from New England. That's why Culley was let go. But the team did exceed their low expectations.
Goodell must be panicking now that there is only one black coach now in the NFL. Flores has a lot of leverage to demand a great contract wherever he goes.
I see flores going to chicago
Byron Leftwich will be next black coach in NFL.
@@TexasRawdogMMA Considering the way Flores went through assistants why should Chicago want him?
@@angelicalynn1259 he had ten wins last year and 9 wins this year and chicago seems like one of the best open coaching spots
He did an excellent job under very trying circumstances. Team was much better then expected. Mills had an excellent rookie year too
no one is stopping to think and realize that was the whole problem...the texans have been tanking ever since they were forced into the deshaun extension. Culley did not tank he won about 4 more games than he was supposed to and this pissed the texans off.
I thought Culley did one of the 3 or 4 best coaching jobs of the year with this train wreck of a team.
That Caserio headset story is bonkers crazy. How is this different then when Jerry Jones tries to interfere with the cowboys. This is not going to end well.
Here's another weird (and sad) tidbit: I live in the Houston area, so I listen to the local sports radio (wish I didn't have to, cause I don't root for them). The talking heads spent the last year talking about how bad Nick Casario is at his job, and making fun of how the perception is that he's trying to make Houston into "New England South" when he hired O'Brien, and doing things the Patriots Way (which fits what RE said about him being in the headsets during games), and the first thing these idiots do when they hear of the firing of Culley is defend the organization, saying stuff like "we all knew this was a one-and-done hire" and "Culley was in over his head," treating a man that has coached in football as long or longer than many of us have even cared about football like he was a wet-behind-the-ears hot shot. A lot of teams would do better to hire Culley than what they have. He gets his guys to play hard, and that seems to be hard to do with professionals that shouldn't have to be motivated to play that way. Houston sports are a joke, no matter which one you pick.
Oh man you must suffer from low Testosterone, spoken like a true beta.
Love my Rockets and Astros. Tuck the Fexans!
Except the Astros
@@RJVentura1 lol why you say that? because of the "im not much of a sports guy" intro lol
Well damn when you say it like that. He definitely got screwed.
Culley was put into a no win situation. He wasn't the reason the Texans were terrible. A new coach won't fix anything. A new coach won't win more games. This is just one of innumerable reasons the Texans are a terrible franchise. (It starts at the top with the nutjob owner and the man whispering in his ear)
@@j.d.6915 💯🔥
The Houston Texans organization is embarrassing. I wish the owners had the spine to send some of the bad apple owners out to pasture (McNair, Snyder, Spanos).
Houston: a city that sold it's soul.
I, too, am a UTree fan
“Not For Long”- Goodell should be very proud of that Rooney Rule now
Eisen should pay attention to the media in Texas. Two theories are Culley was a placeholder of sorts until Houston found someone better or he was hired because Watson wanted a black coach. Whatever the truth is Culley doesn't seem to have ever been the Texan's genuine choice. He did a decent job with all the Watson drama and a weak roster.
Watch them go all in for Flores but miss out because he doesn't want to deal with the bs.
Thats just it the roster wasnt only weak it was beyond DECIMATED! Please allow me to explain: decimation was the ancient roman practice of taking a group of people and judging all of them for a particular crime by killing one out of every ten of them and the survivors are forgiven and continue to serve.The texans have suffered a rate of attrition beyond that as they have torn down and gutted this roster completely. So the roster wasnt just weak it was one of the absolute worst opening day rosters for a football team this century! So for a guy to take that kind of roster with all the bad blood between ownership and players and the constant Deshaun watson circus a roster DESIGNED to fail and SQUEEZING 4 or 5 wins out of it it all why keeping a good and professional attitude then it appears to the rest of the league that you have caught that rarest of things : lightning in a bottle . You found your coach Texans why keep looking? Theyre going to destroy the team further because that type of success wasnt what they planned for?Makes no sense. Me im a saints fan and i thank God for organizations like the texans,browns,Jaguars,Giants,Lions etc etc that keeps my saints out the basement.
It's times like this when you can tell the people that pay attention versus the ones that don't if you look at the local media not one person is surprised or mad about this but the national circuit as usual doesn't look at things closely whatsoever
Rich, it's the Texans. There's your answer. What else is there?
Sorry i don't feel to sorry they are paying his contract off i think it is 22million? I wish my place of work would fire me and pay me like that ..
I can’t feel bad for the guy. Sure he lost his job but he had a 4 year guaranteed contract. He’s gonna make 22-25 million over the next 3 years. I’m still trying to figure out how I can make a fraction of that for not working
Spend 45 years coaching football as a professional first.
@@anthonypatterson8796 sounds difficult and time consuming
i wouldnt be surprised that this is cause and effect from miami firing flores. They must see flores as an upgrade, and might give them a small glimmer of hope to get watson back in the building since he said hed play for flores
Rich Before the season: "What are the Texans doing??? Hire David Culley, he doesn't have the resume to be a head coach!"
*Texans go 4-13*
Rich now: "Gee wilikees, how could they fire a coach who did his best!"
Yeah okay there Rich. Laying the seeds for the Texans coverage during the DW trade.
You have to understand that culley was never ever meant to be HC for more than a year in HOU. Im indifferent towards the decision but that's what it is
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If Culley was white coach nobody talk about this firing
Ravens made out the best in this firing. By leting mr culley go. They get 2 3rd round picks ... crazy .!
Now the Ravens will get Mr Culley back if they play their cards right.
It’s wild they used this coach to answer all the Watson questions then just fire him. He did everything asked of him and still got fired. It’s a shame he wanted a shot, and took this shot knowing dam well he wasn’t gonna survive
Pleasure to be part of the wormhole
David Culley would fit perfectly in Miami
That’s what Culley needs: another HC opportunity at another dysfunctional organization.
@ Jacob Lawrence way less dysfunctional then the Texans
They should have just traded coaches.
yeah...i second that motion dude that is the most tone deaf thing ive read in this comment section so far and im a couple hundred comments in.
Rich keeps it 💯 at all times.
Culley deserved better,he had a garbage squad that lacked talent and stars and he had them ready to play every game,it was obvious that he was a stop gap coach until the roster would improve but didn't expect him to be fired after 1 season.thank you coach culley I hope you find an NFL job to your liking
The Texans got 4 more wins this year than they should’ve.
Considering he didn't have his star QB and lost JJ Watt he did better than expected. Some coaches you can see going, some I think is the GM trying to save his job by firing the coach. I am not sure what either Miami or Houston expect to be able to hire for next season.
Redacted the name Rich? Gotta love that Michigan education brother! I finally did my part towards 350k and subscribed. You're welcome.
Sometimes the truth hurts!
Deshaun didn’t want belichick coaches? But wanted to go to Miami?
Deshaun didn't want Easterby
David Culley was a one year caretaker similar to Jim Tomsula with the Niners after they fired Harbaugh and moved into their new stadium.
Yep and Balke's reputation went into the gutter for it. Can't wait for the same thing to happen to caserio.
To be honest, this firing makes sense. Brian flores firing didnt make sense.
I don’t know what Rich doesn’t understand…
David Culley was only hired because they hoped that hiring a black coach would make Watson happy. When that didn’t work, he was clearly expendable…
This is as plain as day…
time for a daring fashion choice: a cardigan, in a nice neutral hue, of course
I hope this same thing doesn't happen to my Raiders. We need to retain Coach Bisaccia.
We’ll see, but I don’t think it will happen to the Raiders.
how long you been a raiders fan? Why do you want to keep your interim head coach im just curious cause around the league we aint heard much about him. True yall snuck in the playoffs but should've been a higher seed with the start y'all had.I say if you all win one playoff game he has a 50/50 chance if you all win two playoff games about a 75% chance of staying.
As a coach in the pewie league I do not want that coaching job in Houston
The attendance was terrible and ownership thinks it has to do with the team. The Texans went Woke and the fans said F.U.
Nope. The texans went Easterby. If Cal fired him the stadium would fill immediately
Tony Dungey predicts Brian Flores is the frontrunner for the Texans job. Makes a lot of sense and may convince Watson to stay put if he can get his creepy legal issues resolved.
Well said! It's because they never wanted him long - term and he was only brought in to be a scapegoat during a sacrificial losing season.
Could they be planning to hire Flores and possibly keeping DeShawn Watson? Because Culley did a really good job.
It really does seem like Eisen doesn't get it. Culley did do everything asked of him. He got paid handsomely for it. 22m dollars to have an uncomfortable year as a head coach in the NFL. Answering dumb questions from the media and coaching a surely losing team. It's that simple. He was not the coach of the future, could he have maybe stayed next year? Sure, but if you already had a coach in mind that you wanted for the long term future, you would want to lock him up this offseason if he's available.
Everyone knew he was a bridge coach. Media bashed Houston for hiring him last year. Now they bash them for firing him. If you watched any Houston games you could tell he was in over his head. Mismanaged games. Never knew when to call timeouts. He even admitted he had nothing to do with the halftime adjustments in the last game. Look he was a great guy. Loved by the team and ya i could’ve seen him back another year but it’s a business. He simply wasn’t a good head coach
Deshaun Watson if found guilty should be banned from the NFL for life and get prison time.
Where is Jack Easterby in all of this?
Good coaches should avoid this hell hole
The Texans and Davis Mills actually played competitively this season
yeah i know i keep saying the same thing buddy i think that was the problem...they gutted that team to tank and weren't supposed to win as many games as last year.Culley was in the way of their madden franchise rebuild fantasy...
It was actually fun to watch the Texans this year. They played with a wild abandon & heart. There were no “Stars” with their huge egos & pompous attitudes & bombastic self promotion. There were players who wanted to play & a coach who knew how to use them. Shame he was fired
I miss rick smith so much
Cuz maybe they don’t like him. They’re business they’re choice. Not yours. Buy a team and have whatever coach you want.
Stephen Ross "Hold my beer"
Culley got screwed but got paid so really he didn't cuz I'm guessing he's respected enough that he'll get another job if he wants one....They actually did him a favor.
What's not to get Rich? He was a placeholder. Anyone with eyes saw it.
He must not have prayed hard enough.
What’s there not to get? Culley’s job was secure until the news about Brian Gloves came out. It’s a business, stop taking things so personal. The guy that got fired didn’t
The Texans managment is a mess. They still think that they are going to get 3 first round picks for Watson. Mills looked good. The bright lights are not to much for him to handle.
The Chicago Bears should interview this dude.
Would Texans consider hiring the Stanford HC because of links with Mills?
As someone who actually had to listen to Culley for 18+ weeks, the guy was in over his head and just wasn't getting it.
Man Texans management are way over their heads and have yet to come down.
The Houston Texans were founded by a football loving billionaire named Bob McNair. He passed away and left
the team to his son Cal. Cal has NO passion for the game or the team like his father did. Culley was a mediocre
coach. Week after week, Culley, "It's my fault, me and my coaches did NOT prepare the team for game day".
I swear the only reason these can’t believe when these coaches get fired is cause they’d have nothing to talk about. The guys in his 60s and never been a head coach.
The Texans have had 3 Head Coaches in the last 7 years. The Pittsburgh Steelers have had 3 Head Coaches in the last 52 years. Which is the more stable and cohesive organization?
I was honestly not surprised, it’s the Texans after all they are slowly becoming the new NYJ, and this is coming from a lifelong Jets fan.
Dysfunctional teams do dysfunctional things
The whole issue w Texans
It’s a Dumpster Fire
Not players fault But how the business is run
As soon as they hired Culley i knew down the line he was only gonna coach for a year unfortunately. Houston upper management is stupid
Culley coached no one from beginning. He was just a figurehead. Caserio was the actual head coach.
This decision doesn't make sense, especially with a guaranteed salary. Culley did the best he could with what he had. He should have been given more time.
They gave O'Brien what 5 years and they gave him 1? Makes sense. They gave late coach Marty Schottenheimer 1 year with my Redskins and he finished 8-8 and wasn't brought back.
Texans did what the 49ers did with they hired Chip Kelly. He was a filler until good coaches were available. Nobody wants to go to the Texans last year as coach when they weren't sure about the QB situation.
Native Houstonian here. We officially are a dysfunctional franchise.
Some nfl teams don't make sense. That is why I look at it as entertainment
So the Houston fans are supposed to suffer through bad game management, lack of adjustments and anemic offense because the coach is a nice guy? Culley will be just fine. The real question is not that he was fired, but why was he hired in the first place?
Dave Culley got screwed plain and simple. Maybe a little dose of why Watson didn’t want to be there in the first place. Culley was the only guy who would take the job. He put his heart and soul into it. The team bought into him. And now he’s gone for absolutely no reason.
How many teams want Culley as a head coach now if he did such a good job as people claim?
Exactly… good guy, just not the guy