(PFT) : Omar Khan was offered the job until Jack Easterby showed up to Cal’s House.

If they got proper value back, including at least one first round pick... and knowing that Watson not only survived but improved overall... and seeing what the Vikings got back for Diggs or that Hopkins still wasn't able to single-handedly get his team towards the playoffs?

But yes, I agree that everything about the trade as it is now was bad.

 

Does all of this sound like some fictional tale made up by someone with either an axe to grind or just wanting their time in the spotlight? Possibly but given how things went down the FIRST time the Texans wanted Caserio (and all of the info that was leaked out) you can't help but to think anything is possible with this ownership/front office.

 

Im not sure. Bob was a great businessman. I think the franchise lost money on merch alone with that move. Then they bring in MORE money at the position with Cooks and Cobb afterwards - I could agree with the premise if that hadn't occurred. It was obviously a "culture" firing and had nothing to do with perceived output. Nuk was on another All Pro team this year with a new QB FWIW.

Bob and Rick Smith were able to find a 2nd and a 3rd rounder for Duane when everyone knew the relationship was broken AND Duane was rounding back into form after injuries. Since he's been gone its been one bad business move after the next starting with the guys selected with those picks .. Martinas Rankin and Lonnie Johnson.

What we received for DeAndre Hopkins was highway robbery - and all for what? Ego.

Someone needs to know what they are doing, and that used to be Bob even if he was a hard - headed borderline racist - he knew business. Now its .... Easterby?

 

Because for Cal, it wasn't about saving Easterby's job. All Easterby needed to do was convince Cal that Caserio was the "right guy" for the 2nd time knowing his buddy isn't going to push to fire him. Like you said, Cal is a schmuck. Look at all the things he's been talked into:

1. Firing his GM less than 2 years into his deal to go for Caserio.
2. Going with a GM by committee which included one of the very guys that f*cked up the Caserio hiring.
3. Firing the only guy on the committee with real contract experience.
4. Hiring BoB as the permanent GM and letting him the roster into the ground.
5. Naming Easterby interim GM after not only getting tampering charges filed on the franchise, but who openly admitted he was involved in all of the trades/contracts that came since.

The biggest threat to Easterby wasn't a GM that would come in and fire him on the spot. Cal was never going to relinquish that power. The biggest threat was an "outsider" getting into Cal's ear like Easterby has done.

 

The goal (from Cal's perspective) wasn't to save Jack, though. The argument would be this:

Cal was going to get a GM and let him do what he wants.
Search firm told him to go with Khan.
He was ready to do that.
Jack is trying to save his own job and convinces Cal to go with Caserio instead, knowing Caserio wouldn't fire him.

From Cal's perspective, it's just someone he trusts telling him to go with another guy that Cal used to like instead of the new guy the search firm was recommending. That it saved Jack's job is incidental to the decision from Cal's perspective.

 

It's weird to believe that Cal would hire a GM solely based on the recommendation of Easterby but at the same time Easterby had to be afraid that he would get fired by another GM. Like it's being painted as if Easterby is a cult leader with control over Cal but somehow Cal couldn't stop a GM from firing Jack?

 

I think gucci's explanation there makes the most sense - it's not just strictly about being fired or not. It's as much about how much power and influence Jack has going forward.

 

Nope, it sounds just like what it is, a clusterf*ck of a franchise run by idiots for the last 20 years, who just had a chance to reset the losing culture and instead went for more of the same while now that it's become public they try to pacify their QB.

 

This.

 

Not necessarily any more weird than Easterby retaining his job while O’Brien loses his. That never made any sense. Cal needed to remove both but let his personal relationship with Jack get in the way.

 

He makes Cal money

And we know how much Cal loves his money.

 

Except Cal has wanted to hire Caserio the last 3 offseasons.

I haven't heard the part about Rootes but I wouldn't find this hard to believe.

 

This is some of the weirdest stuff I've ever seen in sports

 

He didn't last year knowing Caserio's contract was set to expire after the NFL draft. Also the extension he signed in February did not have the so-called "Caserio clause" so he really could have gone after him at any point during the offseason. Instead, he "moved on" like he said he would and promoted BoB.

 

They started going after Caserio starting 15 months ago according to Pancakes on 610 this morning.

 

I heard this and he said they went after Caserio when they let Rick Smith go, which was 15 months before Easterby arrived.

 

Yeah Rootes is furious.

 

Then why all of the bullsh!t they've been twiddling dick around with? Why Search Firms, why have an "advisory board", why tell DW he's part of it? Why, dammit, why? LOL. And the one guy in the org that the entire League seems to dislike, bordering on hate, is still employed in the front office.

Caserio may be an amazing GM, he seems to be very well thought of, but the way they went about this is just so typically, laughably, incompetently, Texans. Thanks, Cal.

 

This is why the narrative that Caserio was the guy all along is bs. We forget that Cal did exactly what he said he would do (i.e. interview Korn Ferry recommendations, advisory committee, discuss with DW4, etc...). That is until he jumped on a plane with Easterby, who we were told was not going to be part of the GM search process, to pick up Caserio and all but announce him that same night. And that is exactly why we have a pissed of Andre who probably thought his time was completely wasted, a pissed of DW4 who essentially wasn't part of the process when Cal just went with whoever he wanted, and a pissed off Roots who seemingly replaced by Easterby in a pursuit for Caserio.

So either Easterby snaked his way in last minute as is being reported or Cal orchestrated a completely fake GM search duping his Team President and Star QB among others.

 

Genuinely asking would dw3 been "part of the process" had they gone with khan? I am thinking it's more of "lets keep it the patriots way" that annoys dw3 not that he wasn't part of the process.