I’m hoping all this season Caley was pulling a Mr Miyagi and this coming week is gonna be the “Show me paint the fence….” scene. I doubt it tho.
Just because the offense struggles a little bit doesn't mean I think they're going to lose the game. The Texans defense when healthy is that good.
Arthur Smith must have Nick Caley on speed dial Horribad play call from the 1 by the Steelers with 2 secs on the clock
Scrambling QBs who improvise when the play is broken have given us fits. Lamar is different bc his running is an important and focal part of the Ravens offense. Put it this way we didn’t scheme for Baker, Riley or Nix to run it on every play and possibly got for a 50yrd TD bc they don’t do that. Lamar, Josh and Mahomes do and we schemed for them accordingly.
Short of a truly embarrassing disaster in the playoffs, I bet Caley is back next year. Despite all of the crying and b****ing from our fans, the offense trended up in the 2nd half of the season. I don’t see us going with a 3rd different OC—and another new system—in CJ’s 4th season in the league. They will get the chance to grow together for at least 1 more season, I would bet.
I’m not at all in favor of switching OC’s yet again. Continuity has been a problem with CJ and the OL. You can’t get to be an effective offense if you are constantly shuffling between systems and players. We are not there talent wise so we have to bring in talent on the OL, but changing systems yet again would be disastrous.
He'll only be gone if the Texans lose next week while doing absolutely nothing offensively. It'll be an emotional firing. If they win or had a decent showing offensively, he will be back.
The Rams are #1 NFL offense. Lot of that is talented players (healthy Stafford, Puka, Davante Adams, etc). Still McVay was doing it before those players. It will always be question of experienced established coach vs new coach upside But IF its a system to get coach potential from, and ending the "Patriot way", at very least hiring from the McVay system makes logical sense. Even today. (If Caley returned to Rams, Texans have same issues with another coordinator, then seeing Rams throwing up #1 points & yards, itd be a plausible enough question of "Did Texans pass on a good candidate?")
Experience matters. I’d prefer the young OC’s and young HC’s get OTJ play-calling training for teams that aren’t flush with expectations. Sure, there’s a dilemma that one can’t get experience… till they get experience… but it’s painfully obvious that the lack of seasoning on that side of the ball has plagued the team all season. Yes, they are getting better. Yes, they’re probably about where they would have been had they put up just a few more TD”s. And yes, next year can only be better with this year behind all of them. Just hate wasting pre-extension years from WAJ, Stroud, and a defense that is as opportunistic and stifling as anything in Texans franchise history.
We haven’t wasted it yet. I think this team can make the Super Bowl this year. They will probably get blown out, but that would still be a spectacularly successful season. I’m not sure that we will ever see an easier path.
