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Getty Images Jaguars defensive end Josh Allen will not play Sunday. The team downgraded him to out. Allen has a knee injury that kept him out of practice all week. He did not make the trip to Houston with the team Saturday. Allen has two of the Jaguars’ four sacks this season. The Jaguars’...

Getty Images Week Five of the 2020 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Bears and it continues with 11 more games on Sunday, which means that the 22 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing on Monday night won’t release...

Getty Images Vikings safety Harrison Smith heard from the league after being ejected from last Sunday’s game for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Texans tight end Jordan Akins. Smith told reporters in Minnesota on Friday that he was fined $15,000 for the hit. He said that he is going to appeal the...

Getty Images Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt is a three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year and a hero in Houston both on and off the field, but he knows that no one is more important to a football team than its franchise quarterback. That’s why Watt said that as the Texans begin the...

Getty Images The week before he was fired as head coach of the Texans, Bill O’Brien reportedly had an argument on the practice field with J.J. Watt, the Texans’ star defensive lineman and captain. Asked about that report, Watt preferred to look forward, rather than backward. “I’m not going to...

Getty Images The Jaguars have placed CB D.J. Hayden on injured reserve Wednesday, the team announced. Hayden has an injured hamstring. He will have to miss at least three games before returning to the roster. Hayden made one start but played 177 defensive snaps (65 percent) in the first four...

Getty Images Texans rookie receiver Isaiah Coulter returned to practice Wednesday. That opened his 21-day practice window to be activated from injured reserve. Coulter injured his neck during training camp. The Texans selected Coulter with the 171st overall choice and liked what they saw in...

Getty Images The Texans fired General Manager and coach Bill O’Brien on Monday. They immediately named Romeo Crennel as interim head coach. Jack Easterby, the executive vice president of football operations, will serve as interim General Manager until the position is filled after the season...

Getty Images If the Texans hadn’t traded DeAndre Hopkins, maybe they aren’t 0-4. Maybe Hopkins holds onto the pass Will Fuller couldn’t Sunday. But the Texans gave away Hopkins on March 21, have started the season 0-4 and fired Bill O’Brien as General Manager and coach Monday. On Wednesday...

Getty Images Before the Texans drafted Deshaun Watson, his college coach, Clemson’s Dabo Swinney, said Watson’s potential for greatness was akin to Michael Jordan. So would Swinney want to coach Watson again, in the NFL? That question has been raised this week after the Texans fired Bill...

Getty Images Romeo Crennel became the interim head coach of the Texans when they fired Bill O’Brien this week and he will become the oldest head coach in NFL history when Houston hosts the Jaguars on Sunday. Crennel said on Wednesday that he’s not thinking about hitting that milestone. He said...

Getty Images Now that the Texans have abruptly fired coach/General Manager Bill O’Brien, they need to justify doing so. Here’s one way to do it: Paint O’Brien as unhinged and suggest that the team was falling apart around him. To that end, Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle reports that...

Getty Images After the Texans traded wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins to the Cardinals this offseason, there was a lot of chatter about him having a bad relationship with then-Texans head coach Bill O’Brien. Hopkins said in an interview a month later that he had “no relationship” with O’Brien and...

Getty Images Texans executive V.P. of football operations Jack Easterby emerges from the firing of coach/G.M. Bill O’Brien with considerable power in the organization, even though his hiring for that position never was subject to a diverse search that complied with the Rooney Rule. Now...

Getty Images With Bill O’Brien out in Houston and veteran assistant (and former Browns and Chiefs) coach Romeo Crennel elevated to the interim job, Crennel is poised to make history. Via NFL Research, Crennel will become the oldest person to coach an NFL game in the history of the league...

Getty Images Texans owner Cal McNair has every right to change coaches after only four regular-season games. And the rest of us have every right to ask, “Why now?” In 2019, the Texans tried to pull a fast one on the Patriots, firing G.M. Brian Gaine with the goal of luring Nick Caserio, Bill...

Getty Images Texans executive V.P. of football operations Jack Easterby has had a meteoric rise via an unconventional path to the position he now holds. And now that he has won an apparent power struggle with coach/G.M. Bill O’Brien, Easterby will be facing more scrutiny than ever. The...

Getty Images Bill O’Brien saw it coming even when others might not have. Only four games into the season, O’Brien got a call from Texans chairman Cal McNair who delivered the bad news. The Texans made a change Monday, firing O’Brien as coach and General Manager. “I respected the decision,”...

Getty Images Bill O’Brien has control over a lot in the Texans organization, but not everything. As the head coach and General Manager of the team, O’Brien controls the makeup of the roster and the schemes that they run on the field. His control over those things will last as long as team...

Getty Images After an 0-4 start and longstanding questions about his decision making, Texans coach and General Manager Bill O’Brien has been fired. John McClain of the Houston Chronicle reports that owner Cal McNair fired O’Brien today. O’Brien’s team has won the AFC South four of the last...