Top Candidates to Replace Bill O’Brien as Texans Head Coach
May. 10, 2024 – 10:36 – The Houston Texans’ decision to fire head coach and general manager Bill O’Brien Monday afternoon threw the NFL world for a loop. It comes amid an 0-4 start to the 2020 NFL season and mere months after Houston added the general manager title to O’Brien’s job description.
O’Brien finishes up his tenure in Houston having posted a 52-48 record, including a pedestrian 2-4 mark in the playoffs. This came to a culmination during last season’s ugly loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Divisional Playoffs. At that time, some were calling for O’Brien’s head on a platter.
Issues with the front office gave way to a rift between O’Brien and his Texans players. That included the shocking trade of DeAndre Hopkins this past spring for pennies on the dollar. Needless to say, this ultimately led to O’Brien being given a pink slip on Monday.
In the midst of an 0-4 start to the 2020 season, Houston has called on longtime assistant Romeo Crennel to be its interim head coach. After that, it’s anyone’s guess what might happen here. It’s in this that we look at the top candidates to replace O’Brien on a full-time basis.