Bill O’Brien couldn’t afford to take a step back. Progress needed to be immediate. And at the very least, they needed to maintain the status quo.

It’s not just that they’re 0-4, but it’s the way they look at 0-4. You don’t see a football team that can climb out of it operating the way they were.

You had a clear crisis in leadership. J.J. Watt, the best player to ever put on the Texans uniform, said whatever they’re doing isn’t working and something needed to be different. We wondered in real time what he meant by that, and of course he wouldn’t call for the coach’s firing publicly, but that’s what he did. 

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