While actual good football teams prepare for something the Houston Texans have never had the pleasure of preparing for before, a conference title game, the drama from inside NRG Stadium continues to take center stage. Deshaun Watson s anger toward the organization doesn t appear to be going away anytime soon, as the latest news has him ignoring the Texans phone calls (which makes it awfully difficult to give input on a new head coach): Deshaun Watson is not returning calls from the organization. . The Texans have very little control here.
So, let s go from bad to worse for the second time in less than two months, Greg Bishop and Jenny Vrentas of SI.com have put out a piece outlining the strife, dysfunction, eye rolling, and general chaos being caused behind the scenes, according to numerous sources, by Texans EVP of Football Operations (and a former team chaplain in New England), Jack Easterby.
Jan 16, 2021
On the eve of the finale of the Texans’ lost 2020 season, Jack Easterby preached. In the preceding weeks, as scrutiny both inside and outside the building swelled around the character coach turned acting GM, Easterby seemed to some to have been keeping a lower profile. But now, he took acting head coach Romeo Crennel’s place at the head of a team meeting.
Easterby delivered a speech that was described in multiple direct accounts as a lengthy missive intended to be rousing. The discourse centered almost entirely on Deshaun Watson, the Texans’ star quarterback at the end of a historically great if wasted season. Easterby, those sources said, was effusive in his praise for the quarterback, but to the dismay of many, he did not extend the same attention to: J.J. Watt, the team leader and greatest player in franchise history, who was on the verge of completing only his second healthy season in the past five years; the turmoil that engulfed the organization; the midsea