Texans Fire Coach Bill O’Brien After Loss To Vikings

HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans had faith that coach Bill O’Brien was the man to lead them to their first championship.

So much faith in fact that they made the unusual move of making him the team’s general manager this off-season, too.

But O’Brien didn’t perform well in either role, leading to his firing on Monday.

He was let go a day after Sunday’s 31-23 loss to the Vikings dropped the Texans to 0-4 for the first time since 2008.

“In this business, it’s a bottom-line business and we weren’t able to get it to where we needed to get it,” O’Brien said.

After becoming the general manager, O’Brien received almost universal criticism when he shipped superstar receiver DeAndre Hopkins to Arizona…