The Texans have their new head coach. Former Ravens assistant head coach David Culley has accepted Houston’s offer, as Ian Rapoport of NFL.com tweets. 
[RELATED: Deshaun Watson Requests Trade]
For Culley, it’s the high point of an incredible run up the coaching ladder. The 65-year-old started his coaching career at FCS school Austin Peay all the way back in 1978. He’s been a respected football mind ever since, though he’s never served as a coordinator at the pro level. He served under Andy Reid for 18 years — following him from the Eagles to the Chiefs — before making his way to Baltimore. He’s been a trusted lieutenant of John Harbaugh, and his endorsement helped him win the job.
Unfortunately, it seems that he will not get the opportunity to patch things up with Deshaun Watson. Watson — who was a big proponent of 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh — wants out. Reportedly, he’s not even interested in chatting about it with the new Texans head coach.
The Texans’ bypassed Saleh, but they considered a number of big names, as shown in PFR’s 2021 Head Coaching Search Tracker:
- Eric Bieniemy, Chiefs offensive coordinator:
- Joe Brady, Panthers offensive coordinator
- Jim Caldwell, former Colts and Lions head coach
- Matt Eberflus, Colts defensive coordinator
- Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern head coach: Rumored candidate
- Leslie Frazier, Bills defensive coordinator:
- Josh McCown, Texans quarterback
- Arthur Smith, Titans offensive coordinator, hired by the Falcons
- Brandon Staley, Rams defensive coordinator, hired by the Chargers
Ultimately, Culley came away with the job. And, no matter what happens with Watson, it sounds as though he’ll have offensive coordinator Tim Kelly on board. The OC has drawn interest from other teams, but the Texans are still blocking requests for him.
I’m not a Texan fan I’m an eagle fan, but right now the situation in Houston looks bad. there are two main stars on the Texans and Watson and why Watson has already demanding a trade, and JJ Watt hasn’t demanded a trade but some people think he will not be back with the Texans. I’m not sure what their cap situation is like but if they do indeed lose Watson maybe they might be going through a full rebuild I mean they would have pieces to deal right if they did decide to do a big rebuild. Watson will get them Mike at them at least 2 first round picks if not three and other pics. then if they do decide to do the rebuild they have arguably the best left tackle in football in Laremy tunsil, and JJ Watt. Watt is getting up there in age so realistically he’s only going to want to go to a team that has a chance to win a super bowl starting next year, and that means teams like the chiefs the Ravens LeBron browns Seahawks Packers looking at going after him. With those 3 players, if the Texans do indeed decide to rebuild (which I doubt they will) they would land them a handful of high picks this draft and the 2022 draft, and possibly even a young quality player also
There’s no need for a full rebuild when your only a year removed from back to back division titles. Caserio should be able to clean up O’brien’s mess in short order once he gets draft capital for Watson and gets all the other new staffers on the same page. Houston will not be a decade long bottom feeder like we’re use to seeing in places like Detroit.
There’s no need for a rebuild? They got rid of Hopkins now Watson and JJ are on the way out. And they have no draft picks due to terrible management. Seems logical to trybto trade more assets at that point but we’ll see.
They will have draft capital from trading Watson and Watt. Their cap is a mess but getting those two off the books will help tremendously. Defensively this team is a mess so that should be the focus, in addition to finding a new QB. I expect the will go veteran and draft someone to develop.
Mister Culley, this is the Houston Texans calling.
We’ve completed our evaluations for the position of
Head Coach.
Unfortunately, you lost.
The job is yours
This is pretty good