Texans Fire David Culley, Who Did Everything He Was Asked
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By Conor Orr What was Houston expecting from a first-year coach who overperformed and lost his job anyway? View the original article to see embedded media. The Texans fired David Culley on Thursday, ending what may have been one of the most eyebrow-raising, start-to-finish charades in recent NFL history. Culley, the 66-year-old longtime assistant, was brought down to Houston and tasked with coaching one of the worst rosters from top to bottom in modern times, did it better than anyone expected and lost his job after taking the AFC’s No. 1 seed to the brink in the season finale. The entire setu…