(SportsRadio 610) - It looks like the Texans are going to hire Josh McCown as their next head coach.
That's not official.
As of Friday morning, McCown was just considered to be one of three finalists along with former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores and Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon.
But the belief has long been that McCown is the frontrunner. Hall of Famer and insider John McClain has said it since last week. It's also what others at SportsRadio 610 have been led to believe.
So with that in mind, and considering McCown has never coached beyond high school, it got us to thinking about what kind of offensive system he would run as an NFL coach.
McCown played for 10 teams over 17 NFL seasons, so he's seen a lot. Some of it even overlapped.
To get to the bottom of this, we listened back to McCown's interview on former teammate Jay Cutler's podcast last September.
In the interview, McCown seems to favor the Shanahan-Kubiak style offense.
"It's a good system," McCown said. "It's one that I enjoy. I think it's the way that you can move the football most efficiently with various personnel. So we kind of have some of those principles as we're running zone schemes up front."
This is noteworthy because it would signal a change in the offensive scheme Houston's run the past eight seasons. The offense under Bill O'Brien and his understudy Tim Kelly, who lasted into the one-year David Culley era, was never explosive aside from when Deshaun Watson was simply outstanding.
Imagine what Watson could have been, or even what Davis Mills could be, in a scheme that looks more like what Shanahan is doing in San Francisco, and McVay with the Los Angeles Rams.
It's just a thought. Dream with us for a bit.
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Brandon Scott is the senior digital content coordinator for SportsRadio610.com. Follow him on Twitter @brandonkscott.