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Josh McCown is a great player and a great person, one of the most underrated quarterbacks of the past generation. But McCown should not be considered for a position as head coach in the NFL. Not yet.
Maybe over time he will become a head coach, and maybe he will be a great coach. Maybe he wins Super Bowls. Perhaps there will eventually be a bronze bust in the Hall of Fame that looks visibly like Dolph Lundgren.
This does not mean that Texans or anyone else should interview someone with no coaching experience to be an NFL coach. And it reveals an astonishing lack of self-awareness on the part of Texans, a franchise that has become considered the most dysfunctional in football.
Or maybe the Texans are totally aware, and maybe they showed the middle finger to anyone who would say that Jack Easterby is not qualified to serve as executive vice president of football operations and / or that Easterby has owner Cal McNair somewhere. between deceived and hypnotized. It is fitting, frankly, that a team with an executive vice president of football operations totally inadequate would consider a candidate totally unprepared for the position of coach.
Easterby is so far from his skis that he thinks he learned to fly. But the only opinion that matters belongs to McNair, who seems to think Easterby is flying like an eagle.
In this specific case, the decision to consider McCown as chief technician with no experience as a coach becomes an affront to all qualified candidates, regardless of race. And, please, don’t play the card “he trained as a defender”. All quarterbacks who are worth their boots are coached. Does this mean that Philip Rivers, who is going to coach football at school now that he has retired, should have been interviewed by the Chargers?
Does this mean that someone will instantly be offering head coach jobs to Drew Brees or Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers when their careers as a player are over?
In a cycle that saw five of the six head coach jobs go to white candidates and no black coaches hired, the final indignity came from the Texans, who interviewed – and it seems they are considering – making Josh McCown the head coach without always working as a college or NFL level coach.