Peter King, Sports Illustrated‘s noted coffeeholic, was recently in Houston, and stuck this blurb in today’s Monday Morning Quarterback column:
Coffeenerdness: Stumbled into a fine new coffee place over the weekend in Houston — Diedrich’s. Had a superb, ultra-espresso-laced latte. The darker the better.
Diedrich’s makes a fine latte indeed, with four shots of espresso in the large size.
Elsewhere on SI.com, Peter King says in an interview with Bob Costas that the Texans are going to have to consider taking Matt Leinart if they wind up with the first pick in the draft. Bob Costas makes the good point that the quaterback isn’t so much the problem as the offensive line and a lack of weapons on offense.
That’s a strong indictment of general manager Charley Casserly, even though neither King nor Costas called him out by name.
Locally, the Chronicle‘s John McClain says the coaching staff is gone at the end of the season:
Okay, now who wants to be accountable? We keep hearing each week about accountability.
What happened to pride?
What happened to a team that was 7-8 and on the brink of a .500 finish going into the last game of last season?
This collapse is going to cost Capers and his staff their jobs after the season. It’s too bad, because it should cost a lot of players their jobs, too. Players on both sides of the ball stunk it up Sunday night, and they did it before a national television audience.
What about the general manager?
John Lopez echoed the observation posted a week earlier here in an October column, but otherwise Charley Cassely has been virtually untouchable by the local sports media. It’s not at all clear why.
