He helped with play design last yr with the Rams. He certainly knows TE/OL play. McVay spoke highly of him. Ever ask yourself why all of the McVay assistants that have moved on have done well with other teams except Caley? Could it be the same reason Slowik got fired and after one year got another OC job?
They could reasonably open up 50 mil with a couple restructures, they gotta pay some guys and fill the roster but Nick should have some money to make at least two big moves in free agency....damn Tennessee wtf?!
I will be VERY disappointed if were not in the mix for at least one FA stud on the O Line, we seem to pick at the bargain bin for our offense and that needs to stop. I find it laughable when Caserio says him and DeMeco don't sit and talk about needs for the offense.........come on dude, were fans and we have 2 eyes, this offense is so vanilla and the way we were moving guys around at the beginning of the year was amateur hour, the O Line needs time to gel and you can't keep putting guys like SOW in because he had a good week of practice. The Texans never seem to make a bold move like hiring Mike McDaniels and let him do "his thing".................I love Demeco but he is not offensive minded, this whole conservative approach doesn't work when CJ looks like a deer in the headlights and is running for his life. If you want CJ to be a game manager, then give him the tools to not get killed, the poor kid looks like David Carr. I am not sure what version of CJ we get this year, but if we get the subpar version and you haven't invested heavily around him then we can expect the same results, it's like we have to make it perfect for HIM and that's not the way you want to do it but it is what it is
I wonder if any Philly fans are hyperventilating about them going with another inexperienced OC? Rhetorical question, I’m sure they are.
Restructures (+$52M) Hunter ~$16M Nico ~$14M Sting ~$15M Azeez ~$7M Cuts (+$9.75M) Mixon ~$8M Watson ~$1.75
You mean like Brandon Staley? Raheem Morris? Zac Taylor is 52-63 with the Bengals. JJ McCarthy looks lost under Kevin McConnell. The Packers fired Joe Barry. Greg Olson just coached Geno Smith to the worst season of his career. Shane Waldron was fired by the Bears 9 games into his first season. Hell, even Matt LaFluer is under intense pressure for repeatedly coming up short in the playoffs. So, when you said "all" of McVay's assistants have done well, did you maybe mean *other* than those that have failed?
If the Texans want to win a Super Bowl, then teams like the Rams & Seahawks are very obviously fair standards. But... those teams are all significantly further along, offensively, than the Texans. They have better, more experienced coaches; better, more experienced players; and much of their personnel have been in place for several years. *This* - this right here - is why you don't hire an inexperienced OC and bargain-bin shop for offensive linemen. Switching systems is hard enough - look how long it took Liam Cohen and Trevor Lawrence to figure it out. It is significantly harder with a first-time coach dealing with, at far too many positions, inferior or inexperienced talent. I would LOVE for the Texans to run as well as those teams. But they didn't lay the proper foundation to get there this year.
I mean coaches on the offensive side of the ball that most on here keep praising. Also , I'm not a fan of Taylor but he did make it to a SB which is something that the Texans org can only dream of while their playoff choking QB is down on Kirby and I hope I'll have to eat those words someday.
I think I joked back then that their D going against their O in training camp was more like iron smashing butter. So their own D broke CJ in practices. But seriously, is that not normally done, or is he suggesting it might have been done too much in training camp? I always thought it would be ones with some 2s and 3s sprinkled in.
It's normally done. As I understand it, the issue here is that the disparity between the two was so great - in part, because it was a new offensive system - that they never had any opportunity to actually *run* the offense. Seth Payne broke this down extensively this morning; he also lamented Stroud missing OTAs, which he also thought was a really big deal. And not mentioned - but they barely played the O in the preseason. So those first three games - all losses - were like exhibition games, right down to them rotating guards and trying to figure out best unit. The offense should've played 60 minutes of each preseason game.
That makes sense. I completely forgot about the Offense not getting much time during preseason. Like they expected them go from 0 to full ramming speed without warming the engine up.
**** Dirty Red, he's completely full of ****, him and Show, everything he says is bullshit. If you want you offense to be good, going against the best defense should strengthen them, thats how you find your weaknesses and if you have coaches worth a damn, their job is to address those weaknesses and make adjustments. You don't study for an algebra test with counting blocks, you use the appropriate curriculum.
