 Now to get into the main topics for this episode of Time to Football, a lot of head coaching candidates on the hot seat won after an 0-4 start has already been fired and that is Houston Texans head coach slash general manager slash executive vice president slash owner slash punter kicker quarterback defensive end man to tie his girlfriend he won a full control and it ended up biting him in the butt Bill O'Brien has been fired by the Houston Texans and he is no longer the active general manager or head coach of the Houston Texans instead the interim head coach for the time being is going to be their defensive coordinator Romeo Cornell who's actually a very well respected coach in the NFL whether he's a head coach or defensive coordinator. But for Bill O'Brien what does this mean for BOB? Cal McNair the owner for the Houston Texans who took over after his father passed away had enough of this he was like you know what we're out we're done we trusted you we want to give you full control you wanted to be the Bill Belichick of the Houston Texans just build this dynasty and do all these things because you come from this Bill Belichick coaching tree we trusted you we really did and even though you had some good seasons yeah you made the post seasons for a number of consecutive years you had six playoff games yeah that's that's great and all but the trades and the transactions that that you made we just don't get it we don't understand so we're moving on so Bill O'Brien has been relieved of his duties after putting up a 52 to 48 record which is actually kind of an even number it's kind of cool he coached 100 games so they fired him after his 100th game so congratulations on that milestone two and four in the postseason in the playoffs and it kind of unraveled a little bit after all the transactions and all the trades and all the playoff losses that Bill O'Brien and the Houston Texans suffered following the I would say after 2018 going into maybe 2019 there's a lot of transactions we're gonna read off a few of these the the most important and the most recent that comes to everybody's minds is getting rid of Deandre Hopkins a top three wide receiver in the NFL for basically not too much and that's not discrediting David Johnson and Brandon Cooke's because I think those guys are good players but Bill O'Brien felt like hey maybe I'm playing Madden franchise mode maybe I can get someone like Brandon Cooke's get a second-round pick out of Deandre Hopkins as well get David Johnson and by the way when I say Brandon Cooke's they eventually use the second round picks that they got they had two second round picks and they used one of them to get Brandon Cooke's from the Rams so essentially it was Deandre Hopkins for Brandon Cooke's and David Johnson at the end of the day but maybe I could just get David or David Johnson and Brandon Cooke's and I could just put up the same amount of numbers in this Madden franchise mode with Brandon Cooke's as Deandre Hopkins because we all know Madden they don't use the there's no difference between using Brandon Cooke's and Deandre Hopkins in the game maybe I could just do that but this is real life and Deandre Hopkins is much more talented than almost if not every single wide receiver in the NFL now I know there's Michael Thomas up there I know there's Julio Jones I know there's plenty of good wide receivers out there but Deandre Hopkins is definitely in the top three but following that loss against the Minnesota Vikings where they lost 31 to 23 off of a controversial touchdown pass to Will Fuller I will admit that but after losing that game Bill O'Brien stated that every transaction that he made was for the best interest for the team and a lot of people were puzzled by that statement doesn't make a lot of sense when you get rid of Hopkins for Brandon Cooke's and David Johnson also if we want to look a year prior to that at the beginning of 2019 during the preseason they made another trade to acquire more players and that was Laramie Tunsel and Kenny Stills from the Miami Dolphins whether they trade away first-round picks two of them and a second-round pick for Laramie Tunsel good offensive lineman great offensive lineman one of the best in the NFL but Kenny Stills good receiver not great not your number one for any team a good piece and a good player for you to have depth on your wide receiver depth sharp but not enough to for a first-round pick or two first-round picks but I think the bulk of that came from from Laramie Tunsel that the Miami Dolphins if they're willing to trade Tunsel let's get the most out of Bill O'Brien and he bit on it he bit and he did it and he a lot of crazy transactions happen and you look where they're at right now yeah Tunsel has done his job still has just done his job here and there but it's just you could have used a lot more you with that capital that you had in the in the 2020 NFL draft you needed defensive line help you need help in the secondary and instead you chose to get rid of all that and get these players that I just I don't know I'm having a hard time I'm I'm trying to be you know as positive as possible because I am not a head coach slash general manager slash staff member slash executive vice president slash owner slash punter kicker quarterback and everything else in between Troy Palamolo's hair I'm not I'm none of those but Bill O'Brien just didn't make a lot of sense with the transactions that he made so a lot of question marks a lot of boneheaded decisions I want to say by the Bill O'Brien and the Houston Texans and just didn't make a lot of sense so Romeo Cornell is now going to be the interim head coach the executive vice president Jack Easterby is a name that was hired by Bill O'Brien and he made the choice to fire the general manager at that time of the Houston Texans and give control to Bill O'Brien well that guy Jack Easterby ended up being like whoa whoa whoa what are you doing we don't agree we don't see eye to eye by a lot of these transactions that you're making so I'm gonna make the decision myself now I'm gonna fire you so the guy that Bill O'Brien was in charge of pretty much in charge of hiring turned around and he fired him so I thought that was pretty funny but he's in charge of picking a new head coach and there's a lot of people a lot of guys that in the NFL that a lot of people are talking about that there's you know the quarterbacks coach of the Chargers with the work that he's been doing with Justin Herbert offensive corner of the Chiefs there's I believe Brian Dables the offensive corner of the Bills there's a lot of teams and a lot of coaching candidates out there for a lot of teams and we'll see down which route the Houston Texans have let to go to but I do believe that this move of firing Bill O'Brien was the right move for the Houston Texans because after trying to be Bill Belchick for so long listen you can only do so much and he you ended up failing