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The Houston Texans reportedly hired Slice Caserio on Tuesday as their contemporary general supervisor to interchange Invoice O’Brien, who changed into fired in early October.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Community reported the news.
O’Brien changed into brushed off following the Texans’ 0-4 originate to the 2020 NFL season.
The feeble Penn Command head coach guided Houston to a 52-48 extraordinary-season memoir across six-plus seasons with the group, including 21 wins over the outdated two years. The personnel went 2-4 within the playoffs, nonetheless, and never evolved previous the divisional round.
Following his dismissal, O’Brien lamented that lack of postseason success:
“We weren’t in a position to rep it to where we wanted to rep it. … I understand we fell immediate by system of taking this personnel further within the playoffs. But I cease leave vivid that myself and this workers gave all the pieces this group deserved and more. We worked very, very hard to confirm out to rep this to a train where it most frequently is a championship program. We appropriate didn’t rep it executed.”
The Texans hired O’Brien as their head coach in January 2014, and so that they added general supervisor to his job title in January 2020 after the situation had been vacant all around the 2019 marketing and marketing campaign.
Houston possesses a gifted roster, led by quarterback Deshaun Watson and defensive spoil J.J. Watt, however the personnel’s lack of ability to make a serious bustle within the playoffs combined with its sluggish originate to 2020 led the ownership personnel to search for a brand contemporary course.
The Texans remain in pursuit of their first Trim Bowl appearance since the franchise started play in 2002.
Caserio has spent time both on the New England Patriots‘ coaching workers and entrance-train of job workers since 2001. He’s settled into his role because the club’s director of participant personnel since 2008, helping oversee a roster that’s captured three Trim Bowl titles all over that tenure.
The 45-year-frail Ohio native has been a longtime goal of the Texans. New England accused Houston of tampering with Caserio closing offseason.
