The A-Team: Thank God Jack Easterby Is Not Here Anymore

Jack Easterby is just a man who will not go away. The former Texans executive vice president was recently part of a piece in the Sports Business Journal, "The Complicated Saga of Jack Easterby." Wex is especially annoyed with the premiss of this article. He takes us through the painful history of when Easterby had his hand in important decisions being made over on Kirby. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank god, Jack Easterby's gone.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
See.

Speaker 1 (00:02):
While we're on the subject, Wow, well you know this,
this article that admittedly you submitted for review.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'll put it that way. Use I submitted for use
on the program, Well is now going to be used
review use semantics.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
A lot of this isn't even possible unless he screws
everything up.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Fair. So let's walk our way through and appreciate Ben
Fisher over at the Sports Business Journal for finally great,
We're so excited. Now you got some comments from Jack
Easterby about.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
His time here. Boy was this underwhelming?

Speaker 3 (00:35):
And I don't mean this personally to Ben, but he
you know how there was that movie about the sports
agent and he had all these words to say and
she was basically as shut up, you had me at hello.
The actual, very same thing happened with the abysmal headline
of this article. They complicated saga of Jack easter Bee.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Do the sub subtitle.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
His rapid rise to the top of an NFL team
stunned observers. His fall was even swifter. Now he's hoping
for a second chance in sports. Will he get it?
Why didn't they say more swift? Is it swifter a word?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah? Swifter.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
It just doesn't sound right.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
His fall has been the swiftest of any executive we've
ever seen, so it was more swiftest the complicated saga
of Jack easter Bee.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Really it's not that complicated. It's not even complicated at all.
This is the simple.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
This is why so many people are like, what are
you doing Texans?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
What are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Cal It could not be more simple. He doesn't know anything.
Don't put him in charge, don't listen to him. This
is I'm speaking in a way that I might at
a kindergarten class, because it is literally that simple. It's
okay to want someone who can do some things that
Jack can do as a part of your organization. Ask

(01:55):
the other five organizations he's done that for. It's fine.
None of them did what you did because you did
it wrong. He has no business, had no business handling
ninety five percent of the things that the organization asked
him to handle and put him in charge of, and
kept moving him up and kept putting him in charge
of more things, and kept having him handle even more things,

(02:17):
which just again very hard to work with, which I
think is very obvious from the time spent here, and
if you felt necessary to walk through all this. But
essentially the gist of it that I got out of
it was he didn't want to answer any questions, but
he submitted for this interview, and he answered some of
the questions in a way that gives you no answers.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Not my fault. Look at where we are now. They
look at where they are now.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
You've got to realize I had a hand in that,
like nobody else was going to figure out. Hey, another
year went by. Maybe we should think about spending money
on this. Maybe we should upgrade our cafeteria. Maybe we
should have a new strength and performance center. Me mean,
like every other NFL team does every handful of years,
when new people come aboard, when they realize they're falling behind,

(03:05):
or when the players submit to the NFLPA survey and
you land at the bottom.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Everybody does this. This isn't rocket science.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
You know, things that he's liked to take credit for,
which he did in this article is laughable laughable. The
only thing that he helped them do thanks to Nick
really getting them there was turning them into an organization
that really could basically start from scratch. It's a bad
place to be if you don't do it right. But
when you draft Eric Stingley junior, and we'll give Nick

(03:33):
credit for that the first go around, and you draft
Nico Collins, two of the best players on your whole team,
and then you draft CJ. Stroud, you've gotten the arsenal
to work a deal for Will Anderson Junior to have
four massive draft hits like that. Granted three of the
four we're in the top three of the draft. You
hope to do that, but look at where they might
be without those picks. With just take one of them away,

(03:56):
and I don't know where this team would be. I
can't stretch a number greater than less than zero. That's
how much Jack impacted what they're doing now. All he
did was make sure they realize we're in the worst
place ever. This guy helped us get us there, both
from a personnel standpoint and from an operational standpoint, just
putting an organization together where nobody wanted to be there,

(04:18):
where nobody wanted to work alongside of you, especially as
you kept getting above them. Just the worst executive, I'd
say he's a bad person, although most who worked with him,
from what I gather, would say that, which is why
he kept making enemies in his own building all the
way through his time here. Go ahead teams give him

(04:39):
a second chance, Put him as an executive on your team.
Can't wait to see what happens. It's so complicated. I
have no idea how that'll play out.