Looks like the Texans weren’t interested in McDaniel
January 21, 2026
Looks like the Texans weren’t interested in McDaniel
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Then the Texans are probably not interested in anyone. Which means no change at OC.
If they keep Caley this will be viewed as a historic missed opportunity.
It’s also possible he told them he wasn’t interested informally.
Just wouldnt make sense to fire slowik one year bring in caley then fire him too then bring in another OC . Hope caley and Cj can grow more together cj seems to have alot of love for him
Not surprised, Caley didn’t seem to be the issue for us in the postseason. Our headaches were execution based.
This probably means that it will be a make or break season for not only Stroud but Caley as well. I think Caley gets too much slack considering this is his first year and he got better as the season went on. I want to see them with a revamped o-line and a reliable run game before making any judgements.
I would be surprised if they were seriously eyeing him, or anyone else at OC atm. Not saying he’s the best, but I genuinely believe that Caley is going to get another year. If anything, changes at the other offensive personnel positions (also except O-Line Coach) is more likely.
Edit: autocorrect.
Caley’s play calling has improved, I’d give him another year before moving on. Addressing the oline would be better
Ryan’s lack of give a fuck about the offense is disturbing. He’s an amazing defensive strategist, so strong that he thinks he doesn’t have to improve on offense whatsoever or improve his god awful play clock management. Delegate the OC job Demeco! Get a guy who should be a HC, and let him have free rein over the offense, please please… I want to see a Super Bowl before I die.
People are crazy to think the Texans getting rid of Caley after only the first year. If we keep letting go of OCs after a year or 2, why would any good OC come to the Texans.
People who thought we would move on from Caley are delusion. I’m not saying he’s the best but he wasn’t the main problem.
Really tough to judge what he did when the front office didn’t help him. That being said I think they invest a lot of capital into the trenches this offseason to see what can be done offensively
I’m fine with no change at OC. Caley improved over the season, my biggest hope is we still invest in oline so we don’t have to rely on 6 linemen as much and get a solid Chubb replacement.
I’m starting to believe the OC isn’t/ wasn’t the problem. At some point you have to execute. Stroud isn’t doing that.
Aaron Wilson is live right now and said that it doesn’t look like Caley (and Pop) are going anywhere, but there likely will be other changes on offensive coaching staff.
I hate my life and this offense
Why would they be?
Good. Dude is overrated.
Kliff Kingsbury is still out there
Would be dumb to move on from Caley already.
By the end of the season the OL was playing much better. Stroud was the cause of the issues the last two weeks. Caley installed an offense based on a horrible IOL
We need to get a top tier Center. We will get Tank back to go with second year jumps from Higgins and Noel. Possibly Mixon or another top end RB. Then let Caley design an actual offense.
What’s concerning is it seems like everyone in the AFC south improved and we just stayed the same. Shit mountain isn’t shit mountain anymore and we aren’t the kings of it.
Too many people saying Caley isn’t a problem. He had an entire year to recognize that, with this roster at least, the Texans can’t be a run-first team, but he should have recognized that during the first game of the season. How many 1st-down runs for 2 yards-max does it take to convince you to try and WIN the chess match against opposing defenses? How many times do you fake handoffs (thereby wasting time), sometimes on doomed rollouts, after you’ve seen that the defense has stopped biting on the fake? How many wasted downs that had no chance of succeeding, thereby putting your young QB in long yardage, must pass situations?
This isn’t an either/or thing—Stroud played like shit in the playoffs—but the OC’s job is to make it easier for his personnel, not harder. Caley has not done that. Texans need two things, if they are going to stick with Caley: 1.) a passing game coordinator to fix the glaring route issues and get Stroud to throw on time on a given down and distance; and 2.) Ryans has to demand gameplans that aren’t wishful thinking—if they can’t gain more than 2 yards when the defense keys on the run, they have to be a pass-first team instead—and demand a faster offensive tempo to keep opposing defenses off balance. If they don’t want Stroud crumbling again, they have to stop putting him in bad situations where he’s more likely to get beat to hell or where he thinks he needs to rescue the offense with hero ball that does not work in the pros.
The Texans are a loyal bunch, sometimes too a fault. Not pursuing McDaniel doesn’t surprise me. Not sure he’d fit the organization vibe much either.
Fffffffff he’s going to the Chargers? At least we don’t have him in division. I feel like he’d work really well with Herbert.
Ok. Keep Caley as OC, but why can’t Cal offer a truckload to Carroll or some other offensive minded coach as an Offensive Advisor?
Or, ya know, Assistant to the Head Coach…
Hate to break it to yall but stroud and caley are getting one more year. If anything we need to put some heat on Caserio to get off his butt and seriously invest into the o line.
I think Caley showed improvement throughout the year and although the season started very rough, he has gotten better. However, CJ has not shown improvement throughout his second year or this year and has gotten worse at making those dumb rookie mistakes. A lot of frustration that people are seeing in our offense is execution tbh. A lot of people were angry that this was the excuse they said when asked about offensive struggles but I think it is true. Go back and look at CJ’s first throw of the game against the pats. He hesitated and missed a wide open receiver in the flat that should have been an easy completion. Although I think they could have helped CJ by running it more (another area in which the oline did not execute well), Caley has called good games and CJ and the rest of the offense have failed to execute at times. From inaccurate throws, dropped passes, or missed blocks, Caley can’t be blamed for everything. Personally, I think Caley called the Steelers game perfectly and CJ ends up making bad decisions so it looks bad on Caley.
So funny to me people don’t think Caley is a problem because he improved from dogshit to little less dogshit.
Anyone who knows football can see how poorly coached the offense was, pre-snap completely out of order and no creativity.
I get not wanting to have a third OX, but this will 100% be a topic after the offense is mediocre again the next year. These are the type of decisions that affect your team in the long run between championship or not. Remember the Texans didnt interview Klint Kubiak even though all the ties we have to him — total clownshow from the ownership and management but CJ will bare all the blame because people dont understand nuance.
Meco said he’s taking a week to evaluate everyone. If it goes on for a week with no OC news I’ll be disappointed. But not until then
I expect no changes until after next year when Stroud contract is up
Of course not, we’re riding the Caley Train, with QB Stroud as the conductor, whether you like it or not.
Yall want somebody to get fired, then hope jerrod Johnson gets fired. The dude has apparently done nothing to help cj out, and all the things considered caley had actually improved as the season went on.
I dunno what u guys saw, but my eye test said that our OC is fucking cheeks. The play calling and scheme was vanilla AF. Nothing special at all. Playmakers being completely underutilized.
Yea, no one is good enough to help stroud
This should surprise absolutely noone. I know he was a popular fan choice here, but DeMeco found his system predictable. Hard to imagine bringing in a guy whose plays you were calling from the other side of the field.
We’ll probably be on the market for a new OC on top of QB next offseason. We just gotta ride out next season which is going to be a long year
35 comments
Then the Texans are probably not interested in anyone. Which means no change at OC.
If they keep Caley this will be viewed as a historic missed opportunity.
It’s also possible he told them he wasn’t interested informally.
Just wouldnt make sense to fire slowik one year bring in caley then fire him too then bring in another OC . Hope caley and Cj can grow more together cj seems to have alot of love for him
Not surprised, Caley didn’t seem to be the issue for us in the postseason. Our headaches were execution based.
This probably means that it will be a make or break season for not only Stroud but Caley as well. I think Caley gets too much slack considering this is his first year and he got better as the season went on. I want to see them with a revamped o-line and a reliable run game before making any judgements.
I would be surprised if they were seriously eyeing him, or anyone else at OC atm. Not saying he’s the best, but I genuinely believe that Caley is going to get another year. If anything, changes at the other offensive personnel positions (also except O-Line Coach) is more likely.
Edit: autocorrect.
Caley’s play calling has improved, I’d give him another year before moving on. Addressing the oline would be better
Ryan’s lack of give a fuck about the offense is disturbing. He’s an amazing defensive strategist, so strong that he thinks he doesn’t have to improve on offense whatsoever or improve his god awful play clock management. Delegate the OC job Demeco! Get a guy who should be a HC, and let him have free rein over the offense, please please… I want to see a Super Bowl before I die.
People are crazy to think the Texans getting rid of Caley after only the first year. If we keep letting go of OCs after a year or 2, why would any good OC come to the Texans.
People who thought we would move on from Caley are delusion. I’m not saying he’s the best but he wasn’t the main problem.
Really tough to judge what he did when the front office didn’t help him. That being said I think they invest a lot of capital into the trenches this offseason to see what can be done offensively
I’m fine with no change at OC. Caley improved over the season, my biggest hope is we still invest in oline so we don’t have to rely on 6 linemen as much and get a solid Chubb replacement.
I’m starting to believe the OC isn’t/ wasn’t the problem. At some point you have to execute. Stroud isn’t doing that.
Aaron Wilson is live right now and said that it doesn’t look like Caley (and Pop) are going anywhere, but there likely will be other changes on offensive coaching staff.
I hate my life and this offense
Why would they be?
Good. Dude is overrated.
Kliff Kingsbury is still out there
Would be dumb to move on from Caley already.
By the end of the season the OL was playing much better. Stroud was the cause of the issues the last two weeks. Caley installed an offense based on a horrible IOL
We need to get a top tier Center. We will get Tank back to go with second year jumps from Higgins and Noel. Possibly Mixon or another top end RB. Then let Caley design an actual offense.
What’s concerning is it seems like everyone in the AFC south improved and we just stayed the same. Shit mountain isn’t shit mountain anymore and we aren’t the kings of it.
Too many people saying Caley isn’t a problem. He had an entire year to recognize that, with this roster at least, the Texans can’t be a run-first team, but he should have recognized that during the first game of the season. How many 1st-down runs for 2 yards-max does it take to convince you to try and WIN the chess match against opposing defenses? How many times do you fake handoffs (thereby wasting time), sometimes on doomed rollouts, after you’ve seen that the defense has stopped biting on the fake? How many wasted downs that had no chance of succeeding, thereby putting your young QB in long yardage, must pass situations?
This isn’t an either/or thing—Stroud played like shit in the playoffs—but the OC’s job is to make it easier for his personnel, not harder. Caley has not done that. Texans need two things, if they are going to stick with Caley: 1.) a passing game coordinator to fix the glaring route issues and get Stroud to throw on time on a given down and distance; and 2.) Ryans has to demand gameplans that aren’t wishful thinking—if they can’t gain more than 2 yards when the defense keys on the run, they have to be a pass-first team instead—and demand a faster offensive tempo to keep opposing defenses off balance. If they don’t want Stroud crumbling again, they have to stop putting him in bad situations where he’s more likely to get beat to hell or where he thinks he needs to rescue the offense with hero ball that does not work in the pros.
The Texans are a loyal bunch, sometimes too a fault. Not pursuing McDaniel doesn’t surprise me. Not sure he’d fit the organization vibe much either.
Fffffffff he’s going to the Chargers? At least we don’t have him in division. I feel like he’d work really well with Herbert.
Ok. Keep Caley as OC, but why can’t Cal offer a truckload to Carroll or some other offensive minded coach as an Offensive Advisor?
Or, ya know, Assistant to the Head Coach…
Hate to break it to yall but stroud and caley are getting one more year. If anything we need to put some heat on Caserio to get off his butt and seriously invest into the o line.
I think Caley showed improvement throughout the year and although the season started very rough, he has gotten better. However, CJ has not shown improvement throughout his second year or this year and has gotten worse at making those dumb rookie mistakes. A lot of frustration that people are seeing in our offense is execution tbh. A lot of people were angry that this was the excuse they said when asked about offensive struggles but I think it is true. Go back and look at CJ’s first throw of the game against the pats. He hesitated and missed a wide open receiver in the flat that should have been an easy completion. Although I think they could have helped CJ by running it more (another area in which the oline did not execute well), Caley has called good games and CJ and the rest of the offense have failed to execute at times. From inaccurate throws, dropped passes, or missed blocks, Caley can’t be blamed for everything. Personally, I think Caley called the Steelers game perfectly and CJ ends up making bad decisions so it looks bad on Caley.
So funny to me people don’t think Caley is a problem because he improved from dogshit to little less dogshit.
Anyone who knows football can see how poorly coached the offense was, pre-snap completely out of order and no creativity.
I get not wanting to have a third OX, but this will 100% be a topic after the offense is mediocre again the next year. These are the type of decisions that affect your team in the long run between championship or not. Remember the Texans didnt interview Klint Kubiak even though all the ties we have to him — total clownshow from the ownership and management but CJ will bare all the blame because people dont understand nuance.
Meco said he’s taking a week to evaluate everyone. If it goes on for a week with no OC news I’ll be disappointed. But not until then
I expect no changes until after next year when Stroud contract is up
Of course not, we’re riding the Caley Train, with QB Stroud as the conductor, whether you like it or not.
Yall want somebody to get fired, then hope jerrod Johnson gets fired. The dude has apparently done nothing to help cj out, and all the things considered caley had actually improved as the season went on.
I dunno what u guys saw, but my eye test said that our OC is fucking cheeks. The play calling and scheme was vanilla AF. Nothing special at all. Playmakers being completely underutilized.
Yea, no one is good enough to help stroud
This should surprise absolutely noone. I know he was a popular fan choice here, but DeMeco found his system predictable. Hard to imagine bringing in a guy whose plays you were calling from the other side of the field.
We’ll probably be on the market for a new OC on top of QB next offseason. We just gotta ride out next season which is going to be a long year