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Questionable decision-making – both on and off the field – doomed Mallett, and the last straw came when he missed the team flight to Miami and had to hop a commercial flight.
“They endured him being late for a team bus in Richmond, Va., when the team was t for joint practices with Washington with a team official having to go to his hotel room to wake him up,” Wilson wrote.
“Then [he] overslept for a training camp practice days after Brian Hoyer was named the starter. Mallett had been fined several times.”
A former Texans teammate added: “With him being late so much and how he acted sometimes, it definitely makes you wonder what’s going on with him. It makes you worry about him. Obviously, something like this makes it tough for him to get on with another team. He’s got to make some changes or his football career will be over.”
On Wednesday, embattled coach Bill O’Brien spoke about why the team decided to part ways with Mallett, a former third-round pick.
“We don’t have a lot of rules, but one rule we do have is we want guys to be on time,” O’Brien said.
“The way we deal with those issues when they’re not on time, it’s dealt with internally. If it’s something that happens time and time again, then the message isn’t getting through. Then, we have to make decisions in that regard, too.”