{"id":66506,"date":"2019-06-07T20:49:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T00:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=66506"},"modified":"2021-03-12T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T23:00:11","slug":"houston-texans-fire-general-manager-brian-gaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/06\/07\/houston-texans-fire-general-manager-brian-gaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Texans Fire General Manager Brian Gaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a stunning move on Friday afternoon, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/texans\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Houston Texans<\/a> cut ties with general manager <strong>Brian Gaine<\/strong>. Gaine was hired by the Texans back in January of 2018 and now, Houston has fired him just 17 months later. NFL Network&#8217;s <strong>Ian Rapoport<\/strong> first reported the news.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Texans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Texans<\/a> have fired GM Brian Gaine.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1137106132810567684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Houston Texans Sever Ties With Short-Term GM Brian Gaine<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>With their decision to fire Gaine, the Texans join the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/jets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Jets<\/a> as teams currently searching for a new general manager. A popular topic circulating the two teams is Houston&#8217;s interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> Vice President of Player Personnel <strong>Joe Douglas<\/strong> 17 months ago, prior to hiring Gaine. Now, Douglas is considered the favorite to land the Jets&#8217; GM job.<\/p>\n<p>Gaine&#8217;s firing does not come without confusion. Though many fans were dissatisfied with the moves he made or did not make this past off-season, 17 months is simply not enough time for a general manager. Perhaps Gaine&#8217;s decision making along the offensive line this past spring contributed to his firing. Houston&#8217;s offensive line was by far the NFL&#8217;s worst in pass protection in 2018, a year after franchise quarterback\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WatsDe00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deshaun Watson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0returned from an ACL tear in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>With upgrading the offensive line seemingly a common sense thing, Houston failed to do it this offseason. While the free agent offensive line group was not spectacular, there were certainly upgrades available on the market. Subsequent to that, Gaine and the Texans did not exactly better their most pressing need in the NFL Draft, either.<\/p>\n<p>After being jumped by the Philadelphia Eagles, who selected offensive tackle\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/D\/DillAn00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Andre Dillard<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; a player most presumed Houston wanted badly one spot ahead of them &#8212; Gaine proceeded to select little-known tackle prospect,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/H\/HowaTy00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tytus Howard<\/strong><\/a>, arguably the biggest head-scratcher of the 2019 draft. Additionally, fans did not come off as impressed with some of the trades Gaine made, such as the acquisition of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/T\/ThomDe03.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Demaryius Thomas<\/strong><\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/broncos\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Denver Broncos<\/a> halfway through the 2018 season.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"68uKJy9XTGpDQPPjzHtYAQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1128135004\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'68uKJy9XTGpDQPPjzHtYAQ',sig:'f5YubE9gii1CqiEBVpXGA5Hv12u8abqn-kT7twG_IYk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1128135004',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Gaine was hired by the Houston Texans back in January of 2018 and now, Houston has fired him just 17 months into his five-year contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3017,"featured_media":66531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,14],"tags":[1483,7360],"class_list":["post-66506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-texans","tag-deshaun-watson","tag-houston-texans-news"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}