The Houston Texans perhaps want a defensive coordinator to fill their coaching vacancy after all.
On the same day reports emerged that the Texans were not going to consider Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon for their coaching job, the Texans are now in talks with their own defensive coordinator and associate head coach, Lovie Smith, about taking over the main gig — according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Field Yates.
Hiring Smith would make him the first retread coach the Texans have hired since Dom Capers in 2002. Hiring Smith would also make the Texans the first NFL team to have back-to-back Black coaches since the Indianapolis Colts, who had Tony Dungy from 2002-08 and then Jim Caldwell from 2009-11.
