Josh McCown gets second interview to be Texans head coach

Posted by Michael David Smith on January 28, 2022, 2:31 PM EST
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The Texans are serious about hiring the completely inexperienced Josh McCown as their head coach.

McCown is getting his second interview with the Texans today, according to NFL Network.

It is believed that McCown is the only candidate to get a second interview. That’s usually a good sign that he’s viewed as the top candidate by the team’s decision-makers, including owner Cal McNair, executive vice president of football operations Jack Easterby and General Manager Nick Caserio.

McCown had a long career as an NFL quarterback, mostly as a backup, and has never coached other than some volunteer work at the high school level. He would be the least experienced head coach hired in the NFL in many decades if the Texans hire him.

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67 responses to “Josh McCown gets second interview to be Texans head coach”

  1. I like Josh. He did some fine work in Chicago being not Jay Cutler that one year.
    Can’t shake the feeling Easterby/Caserio just want their yes man and somehow Josh is even more that guy than Dave Culley. I hope he thrives in spite of it, but man this has disfunction written all over it.

  2. My guess is that he’s the only one desperate enough to take the second interview. The rest declined after confirming the dysfunction at the first one.

  4. That’s very Texans. Kind of makes you understand why Watson lost his mind down there.

  7. Please let this happen, LOL. It’s embarrassing for a franchise but what can you expect? You let poison seep into your organization, like Easterby, and bad things will follow including decisions. He is the sole reason where they are at with Watson.

  12. Would hardly be the first guy off the street to transition from being a player to a QUARTERBACKS coach, and by all accounts, well-liked. But if they name him head coach of an NFL franchise with no coaching experience, these people are as crazy as they’re accused of being.

  13. I don’t think they should have fired Culley. Hell, he probably should have been awarded Coach of the Year for getting 4 wins with that team.

  14. Just give him the job already and see how he does. They’re making themselves look even dummer by dragging it out and trying to legitimize it.

  16. orpackran says:
    January 28, 2022 at 2:44 pm
    For the life of me I cannot figure out why the Texans continuously suck.

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    Because they do things like this

  17. As good as they played at times this year, you’d think they’d be salivating at the thought of adding both Brian Flores and Deshaun Watson for 2022. But yeah, Josh McCown and Davis Mills is a solid plan. Are these guys getting paid to tank this team?

  18. You have to really feel bad for the town of Houston and the fans – those of us fans with competent leadership at the top of our teams should always be thankful for what we have!

  20. He is as good a person to push this dumpster fire around as anyone. Titans and Colts only have to worry about each other as long as the Jags and Texans have their current owners.

  23. I think a great nickname change for the Texans would be Clowns, the Houston Clowns. Think of the uniform possibilities!

  24. Yet Doug Pederson won a super bowl and Jim Caldwell has two good runs with the Lions of all teams and neither can land a job. Makes a lot of sense

  29. Texans gotta be the worst run sports franchise ever…they need to go into administration like David Stern did with New Orleans, geesh!

  30. I’m in the camp that Bieniemy can’t interview to save his life therefore, if McCown gets the job he shall forever be known as “Bizarro Bieniemy”!!!

  31. Learn this lesson well, kids- it’s how you interview that matters, not if you have any relevant experience. This is the same as a janitor at a company interviewing and becoming the regional manager.

  32. They might be setting him up to be the fall guy. Coach for a year or two with zero expectations, get a few more draft picks while they work out the DeShaun Watson situation and then cut him when a better suited coach comes along that can work with a more stacked deck in their favor.

  33. I think can be a very good coach someday, but this could be another David Carr situation. Throwing him into that position too early and ruining him.

  35. As a lifelong Lions fan watching the Detroit organization seemingly moving away from decades of ownership malfeasance, it is simultaneously comforting and discomforting to watch the Jags and Texans so committed to amending the Book of Dysfunction.

  37. The Texans must be offering a LOT of money to set Josh McCown up as the next patsy. Poor guy deserves MUCH better. And so do the fans.

  40. Apparently, Culley was too experienced and too much of his own man to be their puppet.

  41. Perhaps Jack Easterby will lead the prayer group asking for forgiveness if they actually hire someone with ZERO coaching experience while qualified experienced candidates sit at home..
    This is beyond a clown show.

  42. And this is why with Cal McNair and the McNairs as owners, Houston WILL NEVER EVER get in or win a Super Bowl.

  43. McCown is universally respected and well liked across the league. Everywhere he’s been he has been viewed as a positive influence. Here in New York he was a big help in getting Sam Darnold onto his feet with the Jets, with McCown doing the best he could and staying positive in the face of a pretty hopeless situation. The guy knows quarterbacking. Give him a chance.

  45. He’s got the one qualification Easterby cares about: he’s an evangelical Christian. Interesting that a football team, which can only operate by virtue of its federal exemption from antitrust laws, thinks it’s cool to have a religious test for the head coaching job.

  46. Josh McCown was a good player with a long career, and well liked.

    This is not Tom Brady or Aaron Rogers wanting to retire and then just become an NFL head coach. This is a long term career backup. This is the NFL, with only a handful of the top jobs in the sport available every year or so. To hire someone with NO experience is the height of incompetence–Yes the owner can more or less hire who they want. But for the most important job on the football team, to hand someone the keys at the NFL level…over people with ACTUAL coaching experience at the NFL level, let alone College, is a sign that its not a merit based situation-its the naviety of the GM, owner and senior executive.

    If McCown wants it this bad, he should have at least tried to get a token job on the Texans staff this year to at least play along. That he didn’t and they still want to hire him, is pretty shocking.

  47. McCown is bright and seems like a good guy but let’s not ignore the fact he could be on a coaching staff right now if that is what he really wanted. The hours NFL coaches work is insane. Hiring somebody with zero experience who actively avoided getting any is a very risky move. It’s not even that he doesn’t know what he’s doing as much as there’s no proof he wants to put the required time in.

  48. This is just more proof that Jack Easterby is controlling the Texans Owners mind some how.

    Josh McCown and Easterby are great friends from Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) where Easterby was a chaplain.

    The Texans Owners is running the team more on religious faith than football knowledge.

    This shows the NFL problem with children simply inheriting teams, as the children are sometimes just riding their parents coattails their entire lives and don’t have a clue how to run a success business.

  50. Setting up a coach to fail does NOT seem like a great strategy for a billion-dollar organization. And this will be the second year in a row they are setting up a coach to fail.

  51. Maybe they are hoping Jesus will help them win games? To quote an expression, “Good Lord!” This TRULY is insane! The poor Texans fans, first Bill O’Brien wrecks their team, now this. I guess they’re aiming for draft picks. No other reason for hiring a guy who “coached a little high school football” as your NFL head coach rather than a seasoned, experienced past Super Bowl winner. Just shows how truly stupid the owner is. Duh squared!

  53. I think a great nickname change for the Texans would be Clowns, the Houston Clowns. Think of the uniform possibilities

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    Sorry, after the quick exit by the packers they were awarded the name “clowns”.
    The Greenbay Clowns, and will be for quite sometime.

  54. The team is run by a former team chaplain and McCown is good friends with him, both I believe attened the same church as well. McCown has only coached high school as an assistant. This easily is the worst team in the NFL. A total joke. They interviewed him twice last year as well.

  55. McCown is universally respected and well liked across the league. Everywhere he’s been he has been viewed as a positive influence. Here in New York he was a big help in getting Sam Darnold onto his feet with the Jets, with McCown doing the best he could and staying positive in the face of a pretty hopeless situation. The guy knows quarterbacking. Give him a chance.

    None of this makes him qualified to be a head coach.

  56. That franchise is so undesirable as a destination, no actual coach would risk it going there. So it’s obv going to be someone out of nowhere. Just like David Culley, who they should have just kept for another year. Jack Easterby is cancer in human form. Keep a WIDE berth around that guy.

  57. The Texans ownership was upset with the team not getting the first pick of the 2022 draft and are taking steps to correct it.

  58. This organization is in total dysfunction. Looking to go cheap/lack of experience on a head coach and have no QB. I give the head coach a year…

  59. Hes a short term place holder hire (if hes hired). Its like they know they arent close to competing so instead of trying to improve they are simply looking for the cheapest hire they can find. This is clearly the worst ran organization weve seen in some time.

    Last paragraph

    and has never coached other than some volunteer work at the high school level. He would be the least experienced head coach hired in the NFL in many decades if the Texans hire him.

  61. McCown is probably the best person for this particular job. I’m not sure what their goals or priorities are, but they need to get the right fit. McCown could be the right fit. Not everyone has the same goals in life. It makes life interesting, and they give Dan Snyder a break. But seriously, McCown would do well down there. You win with personnel, so it’s not like they’re going to get out-coached, but they’d have to have legit assistants. Hopefully things turn out well or we might witness something we haven’t seen. The NFL forcing the sale of a team. I pray that doesn’t happen.

  62. Give it a try man. What the heck can’t be much worse.

    The only problem I see is he never played under great offensive coaches. Yeah he has learned plenty different systems in his time but none great.

    The other thing about getting a coach is they know other coaches to fill out the team.

  63. Or do the Texans just keep interviewing him so they can say he got a second, since nobody else will answer their calls?

  64. It appears that McCown doesn’t want to put in the time unless he is the Head Coach. Jack Easterby likes him because they are the same religion. Jack Easterby is the least qualified executive in the NFL (including relatives). What is Nick Caserio doing? Firing Culley for no reason and now this nonsense (for the second year in a row). I hope they lose every game.

  65. hamlet423 says:
    January 28, 2022 at 5:03 pm

    Josh McCown was a good player with a long career, and well liked.

    This is not Tom Brady or Aaron Rogers wanting to retire and then just become an NFL head coach. This is a long term career backup.

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    A career backup QB is getting the best coaching training of anyone on the roster. They are the only ones on the roster that don’t have to actually play. They are in the QB room every week going over film and the game plan. They are usually involved in the discussion with the offensive coaches during the game.

    Not saying I’d hire McCown to be a head coach. But if my only 3 choices were Rodgers, Brady, and McCown, I’d take McCown easily.

  66. 2nd interview huh? No worries Texans fans, that’s only 2 more interviews than a competent team would give him. Oh…wait

  67. The whole pessimism against McCown is really overblown, Dan Reeves never served as an OC/DC or ST coach nor as a Coordinator ever and he was a legendary coach. Mike Singletary never was anything past a LB coach and became a 49ers HC too, like Jim Harbaugh who was a QBs coach for a year and has had a great run as a HC. No one ever batted an eye against Matt Millen becoming a GM with absolutely no experience as a Coach/Front office, I mean yeah his GM run was one of the worst, but compared to McCown how did no one give as much trashing to that is beyond me.

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