News moves fast. Sorry for the delay, but here’s a good thread for us to use for the rest of the day. It seems everything you hear isn’t always true, or maybe it was true but Caserio decided to reverse course. Reports or rumors are now dead. DEAD. If Watson was unhappy EB wasn’t on the list, and if EB was pissed he wasn’t on the list, and if Texans fans were wondering why he wasn’t on the list, well…he’s on the list now. What a world. HOL.

What a boring game last night. Such a waste. I had no favorite that I was rooting for. I just wanted to see a competitive game. Oh well, back to the salt mines. Enjoy another day of guessing what the Texans are going to do. 🙂

Colts are put away in the stable. No more galloping through the postseason. Vrabel’s team is also 1-and-done, so I hope he enjoys the AFCS banner as much as Texans fans enjoyed ours over the past few years. I don’t have any news to post here. I’m sure Cal and Jack will provide some for us today.

A day late, but not a dollar short! Here’s the Heh Report from Barry. Also: I’m going to post a game thread at about 11:00 a.m. CT for the first playoff game today that kicks off at 12:05 p.m. CT. I’ll either leave it as the only game thread for Saturday’s games or make a new thread if necessary for the remaining game(s), so I will play it by ear as the day goes on. Re-opened for comments.

Another thread.

Here it is.

If you thought you could just eat some dinner and watch a show or three, go to bed, and then wake up and read about (all over again) possible head coach scenarios…you were sorely mistaken because there are now much bigger fish to fry regarding our beloved Houston Texans. Multiple folks from Florio (who kicked this thing off, by the way) to Rapoport to Schefter and Sarah Barshop etc. began reporting news that #4 is unhappy and why.

I’m not typically one to share a Bleacher Report article. However, the BR article does a decent job of aggregating the aforementioned NFL reporters’ coverage of events so that you can see the wide array of reports on this topic all in one spot. I won’t take up any more space here on the page by virtue of listing out excerpts or tweets (which are embedded into the BR article too). If you need to be caught up before diving into the comments section, read the Deshaun Watson Rumors: Texans QB ‘Extremely Unhappy’ He Wasn’t Part of GM Hire article by Bleacher Report.

Also: The Heh Report, the last one for the season, will post Saturday morning instead of today due to the Watson Is Big Mad news. A sincere thanks to Barry from myself, and I am sure from many others here, for each week’s Heh Report. So be sure to stop in Saturday morning for randomness and a cup of coffee before settling in for playoff games!

Hopefully this thread can last the rest of the day. If we get to 300 on this one and it’s only like 3:30 or 4:00 pm, I’m going to let this one remain to finish out the day and on into tonight too.

From the SI.com article: “Despite concerns of the Houston Texans heading for another New England Patriots 2.0 approach with the hiring of Nick Caserio as general manager, rave reviews are coming in, offering an intriguing insight into the new man in charge at NRG Stadium.”

‘Excellent Hire’ Caserio Means Texans Clarity, Says Rap
By Anthony Wood, SI.com

Snippets from the article, which included tweets:

“I think it’s a great hire and he brings everything you could bring as a general manager, from scouting prowess, to knowledge of the cap, to understanding value, to knowing how to build a building, to knowing what works and can build a championship” (Ian Rapoport)

“He will set the agenda,” said Fletcher, per Wilson. “The scouts will carry out that agenda. There won’t be any gray areas in what a Houston Texans player will look like. It will be black and white and very clear,” (London Fletcher)

Visit the full article to read more.

Time for a new space. RULE FOR THIS THREAD: This thread is for talk about anything but the D.C. news going on. The previous overflow thread can be where people can talk about D.C. news. Dual threads are challenging, and I know it’s not ideal, but it is what it is. Anyone talking politics/D.C. news here in this thread will have their comment(s) deleted, which means all replies are deleted as well.