speaking of teams that are unlikely to turn things around
dramatically in one year. We have the Houston Texans. This
one is amazing to me. But when it comes to the Texans nothing
is amazing to me. And I say this with no insult intended in
any way, shape, or form toward Josh, McCown. I know, Josh
McCown,
I like Josh McCown Josh McCown is one of the early adopters if
PFT he came into the league a year or two after we got
started. He's always been very friendly always been very nice.
However, however the idea that the Houston Texans are
considering
Him for the second straight year as their head coach.
It doesn't sit well with me in a lot of other people.
Especially those people who are out there grinding away at
the jobs of assistant coach. In the NFL learning, how to become
head coaches and not getting opportunities to interview for
the job. Josh, McCown has played in the NFL for a long
time.
He hasn't been a coach. They interviewed him last year.
They interviewed him this year. What's changed between last
year? And this year, nothing. He didn't play last year. He
didn't work in the NFL last year, but they really want to
hire him. And I was told last night that they
Hoping that someone else will interview him
to legitimize the concept of Josh McCown being a head
coaching candidate in the NFL and the best they could do
courtesy of Aaron Wilson
was Finagle a conversation with Jaguars General Manager
Trent baalke, not an interview,
a conversation. I don't know if that's enough to get the Texans
to pull the trigger.
But Mi they really want to do it. Jack Easter be and McCown
are very tight-knit. Caesarea could micromanage him just like
him. Micromanage David Cully. This is the guy they want to
hire
for. Now though. They don't have the nerve to do it.
But look if that's what you want to do. Just have some
strength in your convictions. I did just do it. You know,
I mean it is it's ludicrous
to think that you're going to hire a head coach who has
absolutely no coaching experience. Even if he did,
play quarterback in the NFL for so many years. And the other
interesting thing about this is that I remember
I'm kind of after that whole thing came out about.
Oh, there may hire him as head coach. They've interviewed
him, whatever it is that they were going to put him on. David
cully's offensive staff and then they didn't even do that.
So, what kind of coaching experience does he have? And it
goes back to exactly what you were saying, Mike. It's about
opportunities.
Right? Like it's about resume building. You know, who with
Josh McCown owns resume that is any sort of minority, black
latino. Whatever you want to call. It is actually going to
get an interview
with That right. I mean we can say this about other head
coaches in the NFL to is that Taylor was just a quarterbacks
coach. You know, it Kliff Kingsbury had a
losing record at Texas Tech
and then goes and Ben gets a job in the NFL even sean
McVeigh with all the success that he's had was very, very
young when he became a coordinator and then ascended
to the level of head coach and he's been successful. But my
whole point here is
it's about what is your resume? And what opportunities are you
going to get to? You for things. And so the fact that
Josh McCown even has the opportunity
to interview for something like this. It's pretty freaking
ridiculous. Yeah, there's only 32 of these jobs. This isn't
College where there's 150 of these jobs. There's 32 of these
jobs and there's a certain level
of experience credentials
and skill that you need to demonstrate before. You get
the interview Josh McCown has none of those. Yes. He played
the NFL but I don't think since nor van brocklin
retired with the Eagles as the MVP and became the Coach of
the Vikings in 1961 with no time off in between walked in
the door as the head coach. I don't think that's ever happened in
any Pro Sport. I don't follow the other ones
enough to know, but I know it hasn't happened in the NFL
where a player retires and becomes a head coach.
You have to learn how to be the coach. You have to pay your
dues. You're not respect. If you don't pay your dues, you've
got to learn the job that way from the ground up. And I know
he's learned some of it
as a quarterback, but he was a quarterback, not a coach.
So, I don't know. And look, this is where I'm confused.
If I'm Josh, McCown, I don't want to be
the head coach right out of the gates.
I want 57 years of experience, minimum to learn the job
before, I'm expected to do the job Miles. That's what
surprises me.
I'd feel horribly inadequate. If I was Josh, McCown walking
in and taking over, right? There's so much that you don't
know when you've never been in a situation like that before.
And so I think that's what you're talking. It's not just
scheme or like
dealing with the media. There's just all these little different
things about building a step. Now that staff supposed to
respect the coach has never really been a coach. It's
a lot. They're like, it's just a lot there.