The Chronicle posts some tongue-in-cheek news about the Texans:
DAVID Carr could only dream of such protection.
Carr, the Houston Texans quarterback, was sacked 68 times last season, more than any other player in the National Football League. The team’s security technology, it turns out, is more advanced than its offensive line and is one of the league leaders.
The organization has spent $40,000, plus periodic maintenance fees, for PacketSure, a Palisade Systems product designed to prevent users on the team’s internal network from sending sensitive information to outsiders, said Nick Ignatiev, director of information technology for the Texans and McNair Group. This can include the team’s playbook, scouting reports and financial information about customers.
Who needs any of that information? The game film was all the ammo opponents needed against the Texans last season.
If they could come up with some sort of software to keep the general manager from attempting to save his job by leaking all sorts of info to a certain local sportswriter (who ran with it at the time, but now says Casserly should have been fired), THAT would be a very good investment for the team.
But I suspect that general manager will be looking for a job after next season regardless. Once the Kubiak regime is fully up to speed, it won’t need a general manager who leaks negative information about the head coach to local sports journalists when a season starts poorly.
