Cooks was speaking less than 24 hours after it was learned that the Texans were moving on from head coach Lovie Smith after just one campaign. Last January, Houston made David Culley a one-season-and-done coach.
The Texans enter Sunday's game against the Indianapolis Colts with a 2-13-1 record and could finish with the league's worst record with another loss. A Texans win, combined with a Bears loss to the Colts, would give Chicago the league's worst record and the No. 1 overall pick.
David Culley led a talent-deficient Houston Texans roster to a 4-13 record in his first year as head coach, but apparently that wasn't enough as he was fired Thursday.
Culley started his football coaching career at just 23 years old, as he worked with seven different college programs as a positional coach before joining the NFL ranks in 1994.
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