Groundhog Day is a few weeks away, but you have heard this story before.
Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Josh McCown has interviewed for the vacant head coaching job with the Houston Texans.
When did you hear it before?
Almost one year ago to the day.
That’s right, McCown interviewed for the second time in a year for the same job.
What We Know
McCown, 42, interviewed for the job this week.
He has plenty of NFL experience as a quarterback on 12 different teams during his career including a stint with the Browns from 2015 to 2016.
McCown has no formal coaching experience beyond mentoring younger quarterbacks in the latter years of his career as a backup.
From NFL Now: The #Texans interviewed former QB Josh McCown for their head coaching job — again. What to make of it? pic.twitter.com/FqZdjnJunk
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) January 21, 2022
He has always expressed a desire to get into coaching when his playing career ended.
Wait…Josh McCown? The backup quarterback that was literally on the team as a player 12 months ago? The one with no coaching experience at any level, ever?
Excuse me?
— Brett Kollmann (@BrettKollmann) January 21, 2022
A Deja Vu Experience
It is odd that he is interviewing for the job two years in a row.
His resume and experience have not changed since his January 2021 interview.
Former #Browns QB Josh McCown is being interviewed for the #Texans HC vacancy. pic.twitter.com/CWOxvFY4Wc
— Cleveland Legends (@legendscle) January 22, 2021
Texans’ Perspective
ProFootballTalk is reporting that the Texans want other teams to interview McCown to make their decision to hire him, should they decide to do so, appear to be a sensible one.
That logic in itself is upside down.
The Texans are working hard to get media to normalize the idea of hiring a head coach who has no college or pro coaching experience, in any capacity. I really like and respect Josh McCown, but the idea of making him a head coach is offensive to anyone who has paid their dues.
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) January 21, 2022
Generally, when a team knows they found their guy, they want to snap him up quickly before other teams can interview him.
The Texans, who really want to hire Josh McCown as the team's next head coach, hope another team with a vacancy will interview him, in order to help legitimize the move they'd like to make. https://t.co/9Zi3ggDEqU
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) January 21, 2022
The new Texans coach inherits a yet to be resolved situation with Deshaun Watson and a young quarterback with potential in Davis Mills along with capable but often injured veteran Tyrod Taylor.
One person had an interesting take on it given that McCown is only one season removed from playing as an NFL quarterback.
Josh McCown is going to be the first guy to ever be the head coach of a NFL team and also be its starting quarterback by Week four. https://t.co/J7EGm2I3O6
— Patrick Moran (Talking Buffalo) (@PatrickMoranTB) January 21, 2022
He called McCown “the first guy to ever be the head coach of a NFL team and also be its starting quarterback by Week four.”
It will be interesting to see how this story turns out.
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