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Getty Images Texans G.M. Nick Caserio opened Friday’s press conference by saying the team has “zero interest” in trading quarterback Deshaun Watson. However, Caserio said no words to indicate that the team is willing to take a hard, inflexible position in that regard. The most telling moment...

Getty Images Texans coach David Culley knows he’ll be coaching Deshaun Watson this season. Or so he says. At his introductory press conference today, Culley expressed confidence that Watson will be his quarterback. “Deshaun Watson is a Houston Texan; he’s the quarterback of the Houston...

Getty Images The Texans may not have quarterback Deshaun Watson for the 2021 season, but they will have Lovie Smith. Mike Garafolo of NFL Media reports that Smith has agreed to a deal to become the defensive coordinator in Houston. Word of the team’s interest in adding Smith to head coach...

Getty Images T.J. Yates has spent seven of some or all of the past 10 seasons in Houston as either a player or a coach. He played for the Texans in 2011-13, 2015 and 2017. Yates joined the coaching staff in 2019 as an offensive assistant and spent 2020 as the assistant quarterbacks coach. But...

Getty Images NFL teams scouting Alabama quarterback Mac Jones may not get to use the Senior Bowl as a data point. Jones took part in practices for the game this week and remains in Mobile, but he is not sure if he will be able to play on Saturday. He injured his left ankle on Thursday and told...

Getty Images Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson‘s trade request has led to responses around the league. Many of those responses involve discussions of where he might wind up, but Titans running back Derrick Henry isn’t as concerned with where Watson will play as he is with where Watson will not...

Getty Images The Texans have their fourth head coach in franchise history. David Culley, a long-time NFL and college assistant, officially has gotten the job. Most recently the receivers coach and assistant head coach of the Ravens, the 65-year-old Culley gets an unexpected chance to cap his...

Getty Images On Friday, the Houston Texans will attempt to introduce new coach David Culley at a press conference. The press conference quickly will shift its focus to someone else whose name starts with a D. When G.M. Nick Caserio and Culley begin taking questions, the questions will center...

Getty Images The man who orchestrated the Herschel Walker trade that built the 1990s Cowboys into three-time Super Bowl champions says that’s not a valid blueprint for the Texans with Deshaun Watson. Jimmy Johnson said on ESPN that even after his own success trading Walker for a bounty of...

Getty Images The Texans are retaining tight ends coach Will Lawing, Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle reports. David Culley has wasted no time putting an impressive staff together, with Pep Hamilton as quarterbacks coach, Lovie Smith as defensive coordinator and Tim Kelly as offensive...

Getty Images As the NFL community processes the surprising decision of the Texans to hire 65-year-old position coach David Culley as head coach, some are tying the development to the surprising decision of the Texans to interview Josh McCown for the head-coaching job. Multiple league sources...

Getty Images The Bears have found a new defensive line coach. Chris Rumph will head to Chicago to take the job, according to a report from Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle. Rumph was the Texans outside linebackers coach in 2020. Rumph had spent 18 years coaching at the collegiate level...

Getty Images There was word earlier this week that the Texans are talking to Josh McCown about a job on David Culley’s staff and many people speculated that he could wind up as the team’s quarterbacks coach. McCown may wind up on the staff, but a report on Thursday indicates the Texans are...

Getty Images Chiefs coach Andy Reid has quite a coaching tree. One of his protegees got a head coaching job this cycle. Another didn’t. The Texans hired David Culley, who was with Reid for 18 years at two stops. It filled the last available head coaching spot, leaving Chiefs offensive...

Getty Images We now know the next coach of the Houston Texans will be David Culley. We don’t know what that will mean to Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson. Chris Mortensen of ESPN reported over the weekend that Watson wants out, regardless of who the team hires to become the head coach...

Getty Images The Texans have settled on their next head coach, but David Culley’s imminent hiring doesn’t appear to have swayed quarterback Deshaun Watson‘s feelings about the team. According to multiple reports, Watson has formally requested a trade away from Houston. PFT has confirmed, via a...

Getty Images Now that Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson has officially asked for a trade, the ball has moved to Nick Caserio’s court. What will Caserio, and thus the Texans, do? The choices are simple: (1) say they’re not trading him and mean it; (2) say they’re not trading him and not mean...

Getty Images The Texans have agreed to a deal to make David Culley their next head coach, according to a source. Culley remains in Houston after a long day of interviews. Bills defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier was the only other candidate who got a second interview with Texans General...

Getty Images Now that the Houston Texans have a head coach in place, they are moving quickly to fill out the rest of their coaching staff. According to NFL Network, the Texans are targeting Josh McCown and former Chicago Bears and University of Illinois head coach Lovie Smith for position on...

Getty Images The Lions are shopping quarterback Matthew Stafford, and they have a whole lot of potential customers. About a third of the league has reached out to the Lions about a potential Stafford trade, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. Among the teams that have been mentioned as...