Planting your flag on Mt. Easterby. lol. Dude, you really do get your rocks off arguing with strangers on the internet, don’t you?
Tell us specifically what he does as a positive then? Dude came over as a chaplain and is now VP of football! Literally the whole league questions this guy. But you can hop in line with cal and just blindly follow him. They don’t make 30 page SI articles about character coaches. This dude has bamboozled his way to the top of an organization and helped cal somehow drive this team downward AFTER the firing of BOB. Look at the coach selection. Are you kidding me? And if that’s caserio then look at the GM selection. How ppl are still looking around Easterby instead of at him when the whole world outside Houston knows he is bad news is beyond me. But let’s play devil’s advocate: Let’s say nothing is wrong with Easterby. He’s a great character coach. LOOK AT ALL THIS CONFUSION AND DISTRACTION. If any player was causing this league-wide distraction they would be let go immediately. Good PR or bad PR, this dude is causing too much of a stir and should be gone for that alone. Just like would happen with anyone else in a normally run org.
Specifically: 1. Hired from NE where he served as character coach. Part of the reason for the hire, and one of his specific job descriptions on the Texans website is: "Easterby manages all football operations and directs the overall culture of the organization." → This organization has gone from having terrific football players who check all the on and off the field character boxes (Watt, Hopkins, probably eventually Deshaun), to having a roster with massive holes, no stars, and a dim immediate future. 2. He negotiated the Watson, Merciless, Cobb, and Eric Murray contracts. If you want to blame O'Brien then sure, give him even 75% of the blame, Easterby was involved, at the very least, and likely spearheaded these decisions. 3. He has chased off valuable members of the organization. Chris Olsen and Jaime Rootes specifically. Well he actually just fired Olsen himself, bc he shadowed Olsen doing his job for a month and a half, couple that with his "salary cap internship" with the Jacksonville Jaguars on that ironclad resume of his, and BOOM: JACK EASTERBY: SALARY CAP GURU. 4. His actions have created enough dissession that there are 2, TWO, TWOOOOOOOOO SPORTS ILLUSTRATED smear articles about him and the organization. Idgaf what he does, a front office person is not worth the headache associated with this. 5. He is a tone-deaf jackass popping off on twitter about victory right before getting his buddy hired and saving his job. 6. He DOESNT. GIVE. A. SINGLE. ****ING. ****. NOR. EVEN. HALF. A. ****. ABOUT. THE. CITY. OF. HOUSTON. OR. THE. TEXANS. 7. He hids from accountability, he hides when things are going to ****, and runs to the press conference when anything goes his way. He is a con man. He is NOT QUALIFIED FOR HIS POSITION. And worst of all, he hides behind this illusion of "faith, family, football" that he tries to justify as absolving him of his sins as lord of the Texans.
Just to play along Thou shall not text players parents to inform them their children might be up to something. It's not Lady of Our Lake university. Thou shall not give eye roll speeches about little Ray Ray. Thou shall not threaten people in the building because you think they aired out your dirty laundry to S.I. Thou shall not force your religion on the players if they're not seeking it. Thou shall not walk around the building thinking you have all the power when it's not like that. (though now it is) Thou shall not play private investigator with players. The locker room is their sacred place. Thou shall not worship a culture of chaos and mistrust (you can google where these patriot rejects have done their damage) Thou shall not preach honesty and be a complete sh*thead. Thou shall not lie about getting an imaginary lifetime contract from Mr. Kraft Thou shall not create the destructive waves then act like you've learned to take them head on.
Yeah, it's time to put up or shut up for the character coaches Tell us SPECIFICALLY who were the character coaches in the years preceding Easterby at the Texans, we had all good boys over the past 21 years anyway. Also, tell us specifically what amazing he has done? Don't let facts like lying constantly on his resume cloud your judgement. #EasterbyBurnerAccount
I'm not singing Easterby's praises -- I'm neutral on the guy. But what's striking is that people outright hate Easterby despite not being able to list a single specific reason why they hate him. It's all based on innuendo and simply repeating what the media puts out. Many unsuspecting people don't even stop to think about whether the media has an agenda in pumping out information. They just mindlessly take it in, believe it, and repeat it. What's more, they get angry when others ask them to back it up... and they get frustrated when they can't. Bill O'Brien wrecked this team, not Easterby.
This is next level. The media?? Explain why the media has suddenly decided it wants to tear down a character coach on a middle of the road nfl team. No other team is having this issue. So, mr. neutral, let’s just see what is more likely: the entire football media, all the talk show hosts, Watson, multiple other players, and sports illustrated are all determined to destroy an innocent, god-fearing character coach on a team challenging no one. or an unqualified conman finds himself the only one left to blame so he bamboozles his way into the owners ear and tears down the org from within because he doesn’t know what he’s doing as evidenced by his resume which, even after being shown to be forged, still didn’t have the requirements to be as high as he is making the decisions he is. like I get it, the media is bad, but cmon dude, this is pretty cut and dry.
Sure, I'd be happy to explain. For ratings - it's a juicy story For future access to Deshaun Watson, his agent, and players sympathetic to Watson Because most members of the media take the side of players in disputes versus ownership Pretty clear cut and simple really.
Ok bro. Its all a conspiracy... darn media taking watsons side after ownership made such awesome decisions to help the team. Here’s to about their 15 years of sticking it to the media while we look for our next qb.
Not a conspiracy at all -- it's business. Surprised you can't see it, my guy. And again, Easterby didn't make the bad personnel moves - that was O'Brien. I would also add that companies hire private investigators to follow employees quite frequently. Insurance companies do the same thing - especially when they suspect workers compensation fraud. I'd support hiring a PI to follow someone like Kenny Stills if the front office thought he was bringing drugs into the facility. Management would be obligated/forced to investigate the guy, given the potential ramifications of drugs in the NFL.
I guess he forgot to put a PI on Fuller and Roby for their drug involvement and subsequent ramifications to the organization. yup, ex-players, current players, front office staff and media are all wrong here and just can’t see the truth LOL
Great post But Cal wrecked his team by giving BOB the power. Easterby is just doing what Cal tells him to do. The truth is people mostly hate Easterby because he's from the Patriots org. I will tell you his greatest possible contribution and the jury is still out on this, being instrumental to getting Caserio to come to Houston for Cal. This is another example of Easterby helping Cal get his guy. Easterby helping Cal accomplish his goals. Fans may not agree with what Cal wants but that's what's going on here.
So, Much of the stories about Easterby comes from Watson’s camp. It sounds like Watson’s mom called the Texans (not Easterby calling about Deshaun not living right). The Texans heard rumors about Watson and were trying to intervene in someway in the lock room (Hopkins’s trade) with moves.
This is how things appear to be taking shape... and you have to wonder if the public relations campaign that Watson's camp launched was done because the Texans found out about Watson's masseuse issues... and Watson wanted to get out of town before the Texans could act on it... or due in part because the Texans front office discovered the news and Watson wanted to impugn their credibility/integrity to cast doubt on the story. What Watson may not have anticipated was that a legal titan like Buzbee got a hold of this and will drive it home with maximum effort and resources. The origins of Watson's anger towards the Texans is now starting to reveal itself... and I suspected it could be a story like this, because otherwise Watson would have been specific about why he was mad. But now looking back, Watson couldn't be specific about it because of the ugly nature of the issue (sexual assault claims). Fascinating to try to piece the puzzle together, but this all makes sense to me.
Hmm, so when all the teams called about trading for him when the Texans knew about this and they still didn’t answer? Seems like you just found a new example of incompetence. Don’t care what story is true. Texans FO is still incompetent.
