Does Jack Easterby (Texans) remind you of anyone?

[Rigotz]

https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/football/nfl/player/58052/jack-easterby

 

For those less familiar, Easterby is a "company man" that has the ear of the team owner and is rumored to be behind some of the Texans worst hires and franchise decisions. He has survived through some of the most inept front office regimes football has ever seen.

 

Thank god our version of Easterby is very, very far away from the team now.

[RoyBatty is alive]

I hear them bitching about Easterby almost daily on sports radio in Houston and there is or was NO ONE, not even close to as disruptive, dysfunctional or controversial with the Biils as is Easterby with the Texans.  If you are referring to Russ Brandon, sorry, not in the same league.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

Easterby:  Too moral.*

Brandon:   Amoral.

 

* At least in the smug and self righteous sense.

 

Thankfully, the league is rid of Shelley and Urban Meyer, the NFL's Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.

Edited March 8, 2022 by Ridgewaycynic2013

[JoPoy88]

No one in recent Bills’ history is even close to the utter disaster Easterby is in Houston.

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

1 hour ago, RoyBatty is alive said:

I hear them bitching about Easterby almost daily on sports radio in Houston and there is or was NO ONE, not even close to as disruptive, dysfunctional or controversial with the Biils as is Easterby with the Texans.  If you are referring to Russ Brandon, sorry, not in the same league.

 

 

He's Russ 2.0 - new and improved.   Extreme RUSS!

 

Easterby was with NE as team chaplain and character coach from 2013-2018.  Then he became EVP of team development with Houston in 2019, and in 2020 became EVP of football operations.

 

Russ Brandon showed up in 97, and became Director of non-football operations in 2006.  Then was defacto GM in 2008 (with 0 football scouting or management experience), to CEO in 2010 when they hired buddy.  Then he became team president in 2013.  Buffalo went 2 years with a non-football guy as a General manager - and he was with the organization for like the entirety of the drought.  He did oversee the sale of the team, and they ended up staying in buffalo, so we can thank him for that.  

[FilthyBeast]

Texans are truly a dumpster fire of an organization and it's hard to believe they were a borderline championship contender type of team when the Bills played them just a few years ago.

[TheFunPolice]

Since you asked, he reminds me of the song "Spirit in the Sky" 

[stuvian]

he was chaplain to a team owned by a guy who got hand jobs in strip malls and had a serial murderer at TE. Jerry Springer material

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

22 minutes ago, stuvian said:

he was chaplain to a team owned by a guy who got hand jobs in strip malls and had a serial murderer at TE. Jerry Springer material

And those are his good traits...

[Madbillsfan]

Russ is president of the XFL. 

[ChasBB]

Not in the front office ranks, but I'm reminded of Chuck Lester  😁

And I'm not knocking the guy, but it was amazing he served 5 different HCs in Buffalo between 1987 & 2009 - Marv Levy, Wade Phillips, Gregg Williams, Mike Mularkey & Dick Jauron

Edited March 9, 2022 by ChasBB
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[Buffalo_Stampede]

Russ Brandon was trying to keep a dying franchise alive. Houston is one of the most profitable franchises in the NFL. Any issues they have are self inflicted.

[stuvian]