We did win four division championships here that we’re very proud of. We couldn’t get over the hump last year, the year before and obviously early on this year. I’m sorry – and I told him this today, I’m sorry that we couldn’t get this team over the hump. Again, I want to specifically reach out to Cal and tell him I appreciate the opportunity that he gave me. Long hours, from the equipment room to the training room, to the weight room, to the cafeteria we made a lot of great changes to this organization and I really thank those people. The coaches, the football operations staff and support staff are some of the hardest working people in the NFL. I think football is the ultimate team game, so I really – there’s no doubt in my mind that I want to coach again. I love the players, the relationships with the players, the assistant coaches. But this has given me a great perspective and I will take this experience with me to my next opportunity. We didn’t always have the greatest of conversations with the Houston media but I feel like I stood up every day and tried to give them my take on what was going in the right direction for this organization, and then things that weren’t going in the right direction, things we needed to fix. I believe that I tried to always stand up in front of the media. The passing of Bob McNair and many more things that we had to deal with, and I think we always stood up. We’ve been through a lot here in the seven years that we’ve been together here. He’s an awesome, awesome coach and he’ll do a great job. I’m just sorry we couldn’t get it done this year early on here. Every one of them are just tremendous guys. Just really – the guys that have been with me for seven years to the guys that were only here for a year. It was a pleasure coaching them and I’m going to miss seeing them every day. They tried to do everything we asked them to do. I think these players are just awesome guys. Most importantly to the players – I talked to the players briefly this afternoon and just thanked them. Michael, my son Michael’s had a tremendous experience here living in West U and the friends that we’ve made here in Houston are lifelong friends. We can’t thank Texas Children’s Hospital enough. You think about Texas Children’s Hospital – what it’s done for my family, my son, Jack. When my family and I came here in 2014, we had no idea what to expect. I will leave here with very fond memories of the Houston Texans organization. We worked very, very hard to try to get this to a place where it could be a championship program. I understand we fell short in terms of taking this team further in the playoffs, but I do leave knowing that myself and this staff gave everything this organization deserved and more. I obviously have tremendous respect for their family and again, I thank them for the opportunity that they gave me. In the end, in this business it’s a bottom-line business and we weren’t able to get it to where we needed to get it. Number one, I just really want to thank the McNair family – Cal, Janice, Hannah, obviously the late Bob McNair, for just giving me and my family this opportunity. I just wanted to say a few things and then take a couple of questions.
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