After his first season, Bowles made only one significant change on his coaching staff, firing special-teams coordinator Bobby April. This time, look for multiple changes. You can’t have this kind of season and opt for the status quo; it doesn’t work that way.
Bowles can fire a position coach or two, but that would be just cosmetic. The elephant in the room is offensive coordinator Chan Gailey, a good coach having a bad year. The offense, ranked 10th last season, has plummeted to 24th.
Under Gailey’s watch, the quarterback position (mainly Ryan Fitzpatrick) is performing at historically low levels. He’s too pass-reliant, the offense starts poorly (only 39 first-quarter points) and his disregard for the tight-end position is hard to fathom.
Surprisingly, the tight ends have been involved the last two games. That, I'm told, came from Bowles.
Gailey, who turns 65 next month, wants to stick around. The downside to firing him is the likelihood of having to start over in a new system, which would impede the development of Bryce Petty and Christian Hackenberg. Then again, sometimes you have to take one step back before you can take two steps forward.
Like it was proposed on this board maybe replacing Gailey with Bill Jim O'Brien as the offensive coordinator (if fired by Texans) would reunite with Christian Hackenberg... Albeit Hack still will be in developmental phase for another full season but the what ifs can start there... If Bowles flounders another season, then the team has their next head coach on staff...
Bowles can fire a position coach or two, but that would be just cosmetic. The elephant in the room is offensive coordinator Chan Gailey, a good coach having a bad year. The offense, ranked 10th last season, has plummeted to 24th.
Under Gailey’s watch, the quarterback position (mainly Ryan Fitzpatrick) is performing at historically low levels. He’s too pass-reliant, the offense starts poorly (only 39 first-quarter points) and his disregard for the tight-end position is hard to fathom.
Surprisingly, the tight ends have been involved the last two games. That, I'm told, came from Bowles.
Gailey, who turns 65 next month, wants to stick around. The downside to firing him is the likelihood of having to start over in a new system, which would impede the development of Bryce Petty and Christian Hackenberg. Then again, sometimes you have to take one step back before you can take two steps forward.
Like it was proposed on this board maybe replacing Gailey with Bill Jim O'Brien as the offensive coordinator (if fired by Texans) would reunite with Christian Hackenberg... Albeit Hack still will be in developmental phase for another full season but the what ifs can start there... If Bowles flounders another season, then the team has their next head coach on staff...
