I oscillate back and forth on that. On one end, there's no reality where I think this team gets better under Slowik. He shows no ability to lead or innovate, and he has no counter to when the defense counters. However, my biggest fear is that DeMeco simply doesn't have the ability to be cutthroat with his staff. I could absolutely see DeMeco wanting to give Slowik just one more year because it's the path of least resistance, and it allows him to only focus on his own personal improvements rather than making tough decisions for the group.
Agreed. However, we often expect our coaches to be fully formed, final products from the very beginning. But that's not really the case. Both Demeco and Slowik are novices in their respective jobs. Any first time head coach or coordinator has to learn how to really do the job through experience. They learn and grow through the process. Part of that with Demeco is learning what tone to strike with his players and staff. When to be a hardass, when to be a nurturer. When to bet on potential and when to cut your losses. It's not easy. We saw Kubiak struggle with his loyalty to his staff. He only really learned his lesson when the decision was forced upon him. I can easily see Demeco needing to learn the same lesson. We all see Slowik as a final product who is struggling and will never get any better. But the Texans, while acknowledging his struggles, could see Slowik as a talented, intelligent young coach with potential who is still learning and simply needs more time to grow into his role. That kind of thing does happen and I think the organization is more open to viewing things that way than the average fan. I'm not saying that's the right way to approach Slowik, but it's certainly a possibility. I'm leaning more towards the "Peter Principle" which says that people often get promoted to the level of their own incompetence. Slowik has done well in his previous positions so he eventually gets promoted to a role where he kind of sucks.
Does Caserio get to decide who's hired and fired? Or are coaching staff hires strictly on the head coach?
OL coach will be fired and Bobby will be back. Go through another year of “but but but Bobby!” “Dang it Bobby!” Tytus: Cut Pre-June 1: $21,100,000 dead money, $1,975,000 cap savings Cut Post-June 1: $8,875,000 dead money, $14,200,000 cap savings Schultz: Cut Pre-June 1: $16,000,000 dead money, lose $2,000,000 Cut Post-June 1: $13,500,000 dead money, $500,000 cap savings Ward: Cut Pre-June 1: $4,625,000 dead money, $1,250,000 cap savings Cut Post-June 1: $4,625,000 dead money, $1,250,000 cap savings Mason: Cut Pre-June 1: $12,482,000 dead money, $2,176,000 cap savings Cut Post June 1: $5,158,000 dead money, $9,500,000 cap savings Keny.Green: Cut Pre-June 1: $4,350,929 dead money, $725,155 cap savings Cut Post-June 1: $4,350,929 dead money, $725,155 cap savings Autry: Cut Pre-June 1: $4,500,000 dead money, $6,000,000 cap savings Cut Post-June 1: $1,500,000 dead money, $9,000,000 cap savings
I would imagine (ie I'm 100% sure) that Ryans & Caserio (plus whatever front office underlings he wants there) will make that decision after several conversations. Calhoun and Hannah may sit in on the meetings.
They fired LB coach Chris Kiffin in February and let the contract for DL coach Jacques Cesaire expire.
Or draft, sign better players. Caserio really screwed up the Green pick, shouldn't have given Schultz his money. Ditto Howard. Gotta and an impact TE/WR and at least one IOL. The offense will look a lot better regardless of who the OC is. BTW, Stroud needs to take care of the ball better and get his accuracy that he had last season back.
I remember each of these vividly, and I remember the game situation we were in. The first 2 times I will forgive because they were called on different sides of the field, relying on different WRs and different blockers. Neither worked, and THAT'S when he should have scrapped the play call entirely from the book for yesterday. For him to go back to that well 2 MORE TIMES with the game in the balance in the 2nd half, in crucial down and distances is not only egregious, but it's basically football malpractice. I believe we actually picked up the 3rd and 13, but that is the crux of the offense's struggles this year. Bobby has absolutely no clue how to weave a game plan together in real time, and push the right buttons inter-drive and intra-drive. Defenses have such an easy time clocking us as the game goes on, and start picking up on patterns both in terms of play calling and formations at the LOS. He simply is not innovative, and if he does get better at his job, I do not foresee that ever happening here in Houston.
You can use the WR/TE screen as a "keep the D on their toes" kind of play, you just can't make it a core part of the offensive gameplan. Defenses ain't stupid.
I don't think I've ever seen such a significant drop off from one year to the next from a supposed rising star. Coming into the season, he was probably THE new hot head coaching candidate in the league. The consensus among everyone was that he would be here for only 1 more year because he was definitely going to be a head coach after the season. Dude will be lucky to be employed at all next year. I would be 100% fine cutting ties right now. If any of the offensive core can get a few reps in at something different to end the season, that is preferable to grinding this **** show into the ground, imo. At this point, its just building bad habits.
Dalton Schultz should be a third or fourth tight end. He is the dictionary definition of just a guy. You cannot possibly get any more mediocre than him if you went to a lab and built a guy from scratch. Go try to draft Gunnar Helm and hope that Jordan gets healthy.
