Faced with the possibility of the Texans hiring a G.M. who would marginalize or fire him, Jack Easterby reportedly persuaded owner Cal McNair to join in a prayer for enlightenment https://t.co/FowKtKZBsb
Originally Posted by Coach:
This is true, but the above still can be applied, because the owner will lose money if fans don't come to games, especially now in a pandemic.
I'm sure that Hunt's bottom line numbers took a hit one way or another in that year. And for a owner who is really smart, and did what he needed to do after the fact (meeting with Andy and honoring Andy's wishes that working with Pioli wasn't going to work). That has to be acknowledged, because Hunt could have simply ignored us and continue to push on with the Pioli bullshit narrative.
It just comes down to how the owner is perceived. Like the Bengals owner, he's a cheapskate bastard. Same applies to Bidwell at the time.
The problem with sports owners is they have no skin in the game. They don't lose money. They just make less when they lose. Many owners have made it an art to spend just cheap enough to put butts in seats [Reply]
Faced with the possibility of the Texans hiring a G.M. who would marginalize or fire him, Jack Easterby reportedly persuaded owner Cal McNair to join in a prayer for enlightenment https://t.co/FowKtKZBsb
Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
The problem with sports owners is they have no skin in the game. They don't lose money. They just make less when they lose. Many owners have made it an art to spend just cheap enough to put butts in seats
This is false. The owners do have skin in the game. They're the ones that is pushing for the 18 game schedule. They're the ones that pushed the playoff format change. They have skin in the game.
Most of their issues is the lack of empathy, lack of common sense, and poor timing in today's events. In this case, McNair's timing in this situation overall, is just lousy. Basically ignored all that money put into the search committee's recommendations, and went on its own way. That's just lousy planning/timing. Essentially, replacing a failed New England Patriot way with another New England Patriot way, that has a high probability of failure.
Finally, if you have a super star QB on your team, your best bet as an owner, should listen to him and get his feedback and take that into consideration, because if you don't (which happened in this case), not only you just alienate your best player, you also potentially alienate a lot of players on your team and potentional free agents. Nobody is going to touch Houston with a 10 foot pole. [Reply]
Texans fans seem to be the in bargaining stage of grief right now. Trying to rationalize these series of events. Saying the media is wrong and that Easterby will not have any power under Caserio, etc. It is too bad they still have Patriot AIDS. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Valiant:
Really? Isn't there a few instances of leagues forcing the sale of owners.
Only if they do something really egregious. Simply not caring about their team or being bad at running their team is not grounds for it. If so the Ford family would of long been relieved of the Lions. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Coach:
This is false. The owners do have skin in the game. They're the ones that is pushing for the 18 game schedule. They're the ones that pushed the playoff format change. They have skin in the game.
Most of their issues is the lack of empathy, lack of common sense, and poor timing in today's events. In this case, McNair's timing in this situation overall, is just lousy. Basically ignored all that money put into the search committee's recommendations, and went on its own way. That's just lousy planning/timing. Essentially, replacing a failed New England Patriot way with another New England Patriot way, that has a high probability of failure.
Finally, if you have a super star QB on your team, your best bet as an owner, should listen to him and get his feedback and take that into consideration, because if you don't (which happened in this case), not only you just alienate your best player, you also potentially alienate a lot of players on your team and potentional free agents. Nobody is going to touch Houston with a 10 foot pole.
Again, they have upside potential. They don't have downside risk. They're not going to lose money from owning a team. They just lose out on opportunities to make even more money. With revenue sharing and the insane public benefits theyre going to make money even if they suck for decades. By the way, the fans don't have power either because owners can threaten to leave the city. See kroenke and the Rams.
Talk about a cooshy situation. The NFL is an oligopoly but refuses to fire their owners. Ideally the cities that host nfl teams should hold owners accountable but they're afraid of the NFL moving their team. So they're protected on both ends. [Reply]
Easterby is such a treacherous loathsome snake. I can't fucking believe we had him in our building once upon a time.
He's everything despicable about the Patriots turned up to 11.
He better hope and fucking pray he duped McNair enough to make sure he stays around. I don't see this guy getting a job in the NFL ever again. Hell, I don't know about ANY job ever again. Who would want to do business with this twat? [Reply]
