If 2020 were an NFL head coach, who would it be?

2020 has been terrible, and it’s not over yet. If the year 2020 were in charge of an NFL team, who would it be?

Bill O’Brien

Much like the Houston Texans playoff campaign, 2020 started off nearly without a hitch, but due to some comical decision making both the Houston Texans and the world, in general, would soon come crashing down.

A glorious Wild Card win over the Buffalo Bills at home would set up a Divisional Round against the Kansas City Chiefs, who O’Brien’s Texans had already beaten in week six of the regular season. A 24-0 lead halfway through the second quarter would have O’Brien confident and ready to go.

Little did he know the next 45 minutes of football would become something no Texans fan could have possibly ever imagined.

Dan Sorensen has stepped up all season and showed why he was still on the team after the overhaul of the D. The most underrated player on the team made a huge 1v1 tackle on this fake punt to set up another short field. Reads it quickly and reacts. @ArrowheadLive pic.twitter.com/WJmZQAalgz

— Caleb James (@CJScoobs) January 15, 2020

I would expect to see the Chiefs run a few wheel routes Week One against the Texans. One of Andy's favorite route concepts to call, he sets it up knowing the D will be doubling Kelce off the snap. Should be an offensive explosion here in a few weeks. @ArrowheadLive pic.twitter.com/kr7JLQs0jH

— Caleb James (@CJScoobs) August 16, 2020

Once again the Chiefs would go to the rollout on the goal-line. Double drags again would open give Kelce a lane who came over in motion. Mahomes again would bend the Texans by having the ability to run if they played Kelce. Watch the whole clip, Mahomes has unbelievable pic.twitter.com/9DyQE2wWgE

— Caleb James (@CJScoobs) January 14, 2020

The game became a disaster, as the Chiefs would score 41 unanswered and would end up winning the contest 51-31. Much like our world currently sits, the game became out of control and a few poor decisions from O’Brien cost his team greatly.

O’Brien took most of the heat for the loss for his decision to kick a field goal up 21-0 on a fourth and short, run a fake punt that failed miserably deep inside Chiefs territory, and go conservative on offense and defense as Andy Reid’s machine finally got started and would go on to crush any Houston resistance.

If Texans fans thought that was bad, then they should have been especially concerned when the team named O’Brien General Manager in late January. His first key move as the GM was to trade All-Pro game-changer DeAndre Hopkins to the Arizona Cardinals for a 2020 second-round selection, 2021 fourth-round selection, and running back David Johnson.

TRADE: Texans trading DeAndre Hopkins to the Cardinals. (via @Rapsheet) pic.twitter.com/KrRV09Sd9c

— NFL (@NFL) March 16, 2020

With Hopkins and Quarterback Deshaun Watson, the Texans looked to have one of the NFL’s most dynamic duos for the foreseeable future, but now the team has more questions than answers.

An average draft would lead to more questions and some to start to speculate if O’Brien was fit to coach the team and run the front office. In six seasons as the head coach, O’Brien has a career record of 52-44 but only a 2-4 mark in the playoffs and has never advanced past the divisional round.

Much like the world has been in 2020 O’Brien will be on the edge once the NFL season gets underway on Thursday, September 10th in Kansas City.