

The Texans are remaking the staff in his image. Jack Easterby Retweeted Jon Gordon JonGordon11 10 ways to succeed with zero talent: 1.

Bringing on a guy with minimal football operations experience to work in a football operations role certainly differentiated him from his father, but maybe not in the way he wanted. Jack Easterby’s rise to power is now complete. The hiring of Easterby signaled that Cal McNair would be doing things differently than his dad.

Watson was so disenchanted with Easterby's front office that he requested a trade at the end of the 2020 season - a situation that was quickly forgotten once Watson was accused of sexual misconduct and assault by several massage therapists and eventually sued. Hopkins and then-starting quarterback Deshaun Watson had grown disenchanted with team leadership, and sending Hopkins away for the equivalent of a bag of circus peanuts further alienated Watson, as did the hiring of former Patriots director of player personnel Nick Caserio, who replaced O'Brien as GM. He likely helped make the decision to appoint head coach Bill O'Brien as general manager, which eventually led to the two collaborating on the highly-criticized trade that sent DeAndre Hopkins to the Arizona Cardinals for just a handful of draft picks. In the midst of a two-plus season run, since the start of the 2020 season. That could be one of the key reasons Easterby's time with the Texans wasn't terribly successful. Jack Easterby ran roughshod over the Texans' organization for three years, but it all finally ended for him on Monday. While he did participate in drills and scouting with the Pats, his main job wasn't about football operations in any significant way. He was originally hired by the Patriots as a character coach, the only one in the NFL, and was also team chaplain, leading bible studies for players. The hiring of Easterby and his subsequent promotion was controversial in the NFL, since Easterby had no real football operations experience.
