Is this correct?... (Revisiting the '21 offseason)

Yeah, I'm not a big Caserio fan and two consecutive one and done coaches should've gotten him the ax, but I was happy he got both Stroud and Anderson. He's been terrible at almost everything else though.

 

Texans will not finish in the bottom 5 of the league. Green has been injured. He probably needs to stay on IR for this season. Then evaluated next off season.

 

I still give Caserio an incomplete, and I think this may be partially by his own design. Just remember that his free agent signings have been largely 1-2 year contracts. Because of that, I think the stat you quoted is misleading.

Are we in a far better spot now than what we were? Yes.

It actually looks like maybe we dodged a bullet with the Watson fiasco. There's a chance we end up with a better franchise quarterback, possibly having cut bait with something of fool's gold. *Ducks as I know that statement alone, sadly has the chance to derail any thread in this forum anymore*

I think that whoever has been doing the drafting has been absolutely excelling (aside from Green, who I think is injured, tbh).

Free agency has been ho-hum. We've brought in some good talent, but nothing long term.


I'm on the fence about Caserio. I think that his coaching searches were undoubtedly fireable offenses (each of them, separately), and he should have been shown the door; however, I feel we have the right coach now, and we're on the right track.

I'm not sure I'd be upset whether he stayed or went, and maybe that's an indictment on the job he's doing in and of itself...

 

For me its still incomplete, In 2020, O'Brien left a mess a pure disaster, with tons of terrible contracts, and soo much dead cap for the 2021 and 2022 season
After that nobody wanted to play or coach for the Texans, (because the team was soo bad, and also because of Easterby) so Caserio only had left scraps and scrubs from other teams, and tried the 1 year prove it, and most didnt prove it they were good.
Caserio only have this season and next when they finally have a ton of cap space, and players now really wanting to come and play for Houston.

Also really it seems, he has no ties with any player, even if he drafted, or signed, he is cutting the bad players.

 

The thing is you can excuse each aspect of his evaluation but when you’re done you realize you aren’t arguing to keep him for any reason, just arguing against firing him for specific things

 

He’s plain white bread. Nothing special at this point. Granted he came into a terrible situation and has had to deal below mediocre coaching so he gets a little runway, but that runway is getting short, especially with Ryans here

 

They aren’t in control of their record so the actual roster and coaching moves are irrelevant. You’re looking at this all wrong. Nick is reinventing the NFL.

 

Take it easy Francis. I don’t know that it was his, and his decision alone, to hire those coaches. But yes, they were awful.

Don’t get it twisted. I don’t like the guy and don’t think he’s done a good job, especially from a talent acquisition standpoint. He might very well be a decent GM when there is real coaching and real infrastructure in place, but I think, and hope, that time is now so he’s on a very short leash

If for nothing else, I hope he goes so I stop seeing that one poster say ‘big D nick’ (which I blocked btw because it was so moronic )

 

Rack him!

I really couldn’t agree more. Dude isn’t nearly as smart as he thinks he is. In Caserio I do not trust.

I get the 1 and 2 year deals when trying to turn over the roster. That said, where were the core piece signings? We had none until this past draft and that’s probably because of coach.

 

Not defending Caserio but don’t think you can say for certainty those hires were solely his decisions. HC hires are rarely the GMs sole call and we know for a fact that Cal (obviously), Hannah, Janice and Easterby were all involved in one way or another. The number of interviews, length of the searches and ultimate choice were all indicators that there was a lot of internal debate over on Kirby. Stark difference to this year’s search.

Agree with you on everything else though.

 

This coming offseason into next season will determine Caserio's future. Everything is set up exactly like he wants it, so there are no "previous regime" type excuses.

So far, he's done some good things and he's done some dumb things, but given the total s!!tshow he came into I don't know how to accurately judge his performance yet.

 

I'll repeat what I said above. I think you can excuse all of the reasons you can come up with to fire him. It was a bad situation, he didn't have real power, the owner and Easterby were involved in everything, OBrien torched the franchise, etc. etc. etc. But really, I can't give any reason NOT to replace him. There isn't really anything on the positive column unless you just love how aggressive he was to get Stroud and Anderson.

In another thread someone said he's nailed the draft and I think there's still a dent in my forehead from my reaction to that.

The 49ers have a great personnel guy who is available to be poached because he's not the GM. I'd snag him.

 

Wasn't Caserio "a great personnel guy who is available to be poached because he's not the GM"?

[/devil's advocate]

 

No actually. Patriots were not well though of for their personnel moves.

 

Not in the draft, but they turned castoffs into contributors with regularity

eta: and just to stop this where it stands...I don't care enough to argue about it

yet