” Those guys truly appeared to enjoy playing for him,” stated Brady, now with the Buccaneers after leaving the Patriots after 20 years.
” I think he does a terrific job,” Brady said of OBrien. “Four weeks earlier, everyone was so enthusiastic about what the season might end up being. You hate to see things transpire as they do and to lose a coach four games into the season does not make a great deal of sense to me. Its always tough when you see that happen, especially four games into the year.”
Not everybody believed Costs OBrien was worthy of to be fired.
” That was actually tough to see. Ive understood Billy for a long time and I believe hes a hell of a coach,” Brady told Westwood One in his weekly spot with Jim Gray on Monday night.
Houston was off to an 0-4 start a season after winning the AFC South. The trouble started before the season, however, when the 50-year-old OBrien was criticized for his choice to trade star receiver DeAndre Hopkins to the Cardinals.
” I believe he has excellent leadership ability. Its a really hard part of the profession and I thought he did an excellent task in Houston for many years.”
Tom Brady came to the defense of OBrien, who invested five years on Bill Belichicks offending personnel, after the Texans axed him as their coach and basic manager.
Tom Brady and Bill OBrien before a Texans-Patriots video game in 2019Getty ImagesOBrien had a number of functions on the Patriots staff, however was the quarterbacks coach in 2009 and 2010 before moving up to offending planner and after that taking a job as head coach at Penn State. OBrien went back to the NFL in 2016 and was 52-48 with 3 trips to the postseason in his six-plus seasons with the Texans.
