He’s not overpaying - grabbing bodies with incentive heavy contracts and see what shakes out looks like we getting a lot faster on D
Maybe it's mainly a product of our depleted roster talent and draft picks, but Casserio clearly sees a market inefficiency with these one-year prove it deals. It incentivizes the player to give maximum effort during the season, and if they sign somewhere else, you get a comp pick. The downside is you don't lock someone up long term on a good deal.
One thing im curious about with these short term deals that could also be part of the strategy is that it seems he's signed about 10 players now to 1-2 year, incentive layden deals. If 7 (random number) of these guys pan out by reaching max production then walk, wouldn't that help boost the following year's compensation pick equation in our favor? Im not really familiar with how comp. picks work in terms of letting guys go that you just recently signed within the last few years.
It looks like Nick was ready for this. The man has done his research. Majority of these fools, I have no clue who they are...
But they are mostly ST level players. This isn't like the Tyrann Matthieu prove it deal or the Bradley Roby 1 year deal. The downside is you're counting on guys to player higher than is expected of them. We gotta see first. Quantity isn't always better than quality.
If this happens and it likely will, then you will have a massive amount of cap room by cutting these guys and Mercilus/Cunningham. Plus you will have your high draft picks from the suckage and a bunch of other draft picks from the DW4 trade. This coming year is most likely going to be very bad though. It's actually a great strategy.
Texans are throwing a bunch of **** at the dartboard and hoping something hits a trip 20. It's not a bad strategy, but you can't say any of these transactions really move the needle at all at this point...maybe they hit on several, who knows?
I’m indifferent to the signings. It screams to me that Watson won’t be back so they’re maintaining flexibility for the future.
What really sucks is with this strategy, you can see caserio might not be totally inept. Could have made it work with him if we had gotten rid of Easterby and did an actual coaching search. I mean sure next year we can drop a bunch of contracts have tons of money and some good picks. But we still have David culley as our coach and Easterby pulling the strings...
