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Let Bill O'Brien be a cautionary tale for ambitious coaches. When all the power is invested in one person -- as it was in O'Brien in Houston -- there Jerry Jacobs Jersey is nowhere else for the team owner to turn when the results are unexpectedly poor. On Monday, just four weeks into the regular season, just nine months after he added the general manager title to his head-coaching duties, , a stunning and swift fall for a coach who won the AFC South four of the last five seasons.There was nearly Michael Brockers Jersey endle s palace intrigue during O'Brien's six-plus seasons in Houston, as the team went through three general managers -- including O'Brien himself -- during his tenure. And the intrigue does not end with O'Brien's exit. His hand-picked executive vice president of football operations -- the "character coach" Jack Easterby, who was brought in by O'Brien to help him evaluate the organization and fired general manager Austin Bryant Jersey Brian Gaine, then signed off on O'Brien's personnel moves, remains in his job. According to NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport, the two were no longer seeing eye to eye, and now Easterby, whose roots are in the New England Patriots organization, is in a position to select O'Brien's succe sor. For now, a sistant head coach Romeo Crennel will serve as the interim head coach.It is not an overstatement to say that O'Brien the general manager got O'Brien the head coach fired. O'Brien's deals, even before he got the official GM title back in January, often swung for the fences. He acquired tackle and receiver from the Miami Dolphins in exchange for two first-round picks and a Detroit Lions Home Office second-rounder. He this spring by trading , one of the game's best receivers, for running back David Johnson and a second-round pick. He traded for . He had earlier let go in free agency. And only weeks ago, he gave star quarterback a (well-deserved) .One problem: all of that wheeling and dealing and results did not follow. The Texans are 0 Penei Sewell Jersey -4, after to the previously winle s Minnesota Vikings, and it probably didn't help O'Brien that came out after the Vikings lo s and said, a clear indication that O'Brien had lost the confidence of his most important players."Every decision we made was always in the best interest of the team," O'Brien said in a video conference Daryl Worley Jersey call with reporters, still sitting in front of a Houston Texans backdrop. "There were things that happened within the walls of an organization that the outside public will never know. And I understand that."