The southeast Texas superintendent who said on Facebook that "you can't count on a black quarterback" is out of a job.

Lynn Redden of the Onalaska school district, about 100 miles north of Houston and sandwiched between Huntsville and Livingston, resigned Saturday after he made the remarks about Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson on the Houston Chronicle's Facebook page on Monday.

His comments came the day after the Texans lost, 20-17, to the Tennessee Titans. On the last play of the game, Watson, who is black, ran several seconds off the clock trying to complete a pass that wound up in the middle of the field as time expired.

Lynn Redden

"As an educator, this experience has taught me that I still have a lot to learn," Redden wrote in his resignation letter, according to the Chronicle. "My comments were not only uninformed but also hurtful, and I understand now why they were offensive to so many people."

Redden's resignation takes effect Sunday, when the Texans will play their first home game of the year against the New York Giants.

Redden received blistering criticism for his remarks, but none really from Watson, who said, "I'm all about love so I don't focus on none of that, I love all people," according to The Associated Press.

Texans coach Bill O'Brien slammed Redden's remarks.

"I don't want to waste any time responding to ignorant, idiotic statements," he said in the Chronicle. "Deshaun represents everything that's right about football and life. It's amazing that BS exists, but it does."

Redden, who is white, once served as the district's civil rights coordinator, the Chronicle reported. Fewer than 2 percent of the district's students are black, according to the Texas Education Agency.

In his original remark on Facebook, Redden said, "That may have been the most inept quarterback decision I've seen in the NFL," he wrote. "When you need precision decision making you can't count on a black quarterback."

He apologized for the statement but then made things worse when he said black quarterbacks "have had limited success" in the NFL. Redden said he thought he was replying to a private account.