That would get me football horny, but alas this will never happen. And whoever did that did some horrible photo shopping
Press conference summary: - Caley likely back. Still evaluating staff. Praised the OLine coach and asst. - Tank Dell should be ready to compete in camp. No way to know where he'll be at. TBD. Injuries are hard. - Joe Mixon did nothing irresponsible, no off-field injury. Has a unique "medical condition." Won't know about next year for a bit. He's under contract. - Won't comment on contracts for anyone. - Thinks org did enough to put a team out that could win every game. Just didn't execute. - Like their receiver room - Oline was competitive. Andrews was playing on one leg. Trent Brown played well. Ersery played very well.
•Mixon: Very unique situation. No one had clarity until now. Joe worked hard to get himself ready to play football but never manifested. See where he is in the offseason relative to next year. As unique injury I’ve been associated with. Freak thing. Joe worked hard. Didn’t work out. •Tank: Tank is doing awesome. In the building every day. Anticipate him being ready for offseason program. •We haven’t seen Joe in a little bit. •(Want to have him back?) He’s under contract. •CJ had a really good season. Wasn’t our best day as a team Sunday. … Taking care of the football as a QB, your job is to mitigate risks. If you do that, you’ll give your team a chance to win. •(You’ve built up the defense. How can you duplicate that on offense?) Focused on building a good team. We’ll try to put the best team together we can and play winning football. It’s all three phases. We have a lot of good players. It’s about how you execute. •(Mixon able to play next year?) We haven’t seen him in a little bit. Once we have more information, make a better assessment. •(Slowik to Caley, feel validated in that decision?) I would anticipate Nick being here next year. Last 2-3 months, played good football. There was growth & improvement. … •(Are you doing everything you can to help CJ’s development?) We’re trying to do what’s best for the team. We’re not building based on one person or one facet. What do we need to do to build the best team possible and compete on a weekly basis? Our shortcomings come down to execution. Can’t turn the ball over 5 times. … Players know it. When they’re articulating it, that’s what you want to see/hear. It’s about the team. Build a good team. Get the best 53 players. Whoever comes in, they’re probably gonna have to play. That’s why we build depth. This program is not about one person or individual. The team that wins the Super Bowl is the best team. •(CJ extension?) Case by case. We’ll handle business how we handle business. •(Anderson extension?) Similar answer. Case by case. Will’s a good player. He’s improved each year. •(OL) Got contributions from everyone. Wholesale change was OL. Demeco & I felt we would have a competitive group. Cole did a phenomenal job with that group. … Jake Andrews gave us good level of play. Played on one leg half the year. Ed had a good year, probably his best year. He’s a free agent. Got contributions from everybody. JPatt, swing guy, 6th/7th guy. … •(What happened to Joe?) He didn’t do anything off the field, like a snowmobile. A medical condition that didn’t improve as much as everyone hoped. He wasn’t cliff diving, jumping off buildings or anything irresponsible. Freak thing. •You have to go off what you’ve seen. Project level of improvement and growth you hope takes place. Then you look at your team, their role, free agency supply/demand, do we have an option comparable. Draft is just get good football players regardless of position. Take inventory of what you have, what does it look like moving forward. We have 55/56 under contract for 26. Doesn’t mean they’ll all be here. … We have 8 picks. I’m sure that number will change. •(Contracts coming up, window of success start to close?) Always open in our book. Contracts are contracts. You can fit ‘em however you want to fit ‘em. There’s always a way. You try to think ahead. In our book, the window is always open. We’ll fit the contracts and go from there. Our goal is to have a good team every year. Whoever plays, we don’t care. Tommy Togiai wasn’t a guy anyone was thinking about 2 years ago. Now he’s one of our best players. •(Noel/Higgins) Two really good players. Noel showed what he can do in the return game. Two good football players. That receiver room, if you didn’t do anything, pretty good room. No one talks about Hutch. One of our most dependable players. Watson is under contract. Pretty good room. Great kids, great attitude. Just go out there and work and do their job. Noel showed his versatility on KR/PR. I’m sure we’ll see more Noel next year. •(Do enough to help the offense grow?) We had one of the best teams in the league. Not sure what the question is. •(Offense didn’t take a huge jump.) The most important thing is winning games. We had a good enough team to win. We didn’t execute. Can’t turn it over 5 times. If you don’t turn the ball over, you enhance your chances of winning. That’s the most important stat. In the end, we had a good enough team to beat anyone. If we execute, we’d still be playing. That’s the truth. •(Stroud) “He’ll be the first to tell you he didn’t play well Sunday. What can we do better? Then move forward. He’s been a damn good QB for 3 years. •(TE position) Dalton will be ok. Calf, nothing major. Cade avoided serious injury. Probably ready for offseason program. Think he’ll be ok. Got good production from that group.
Caserio went out of his way to praise Popovich in the press conference. Will be surprised if there's a change there.
Thanks for considering scheme, which literally no one else seems to do when backseat driving and trying to build their dream rosters. I guess it’s not included in PFF rating or draft boards so that makes it difficult. Most prominent example locally is trying to evaluate players currently on the team who were drafted for a different OC and scheme.
Texans need upgrades at TE and running back if you are going to be a running team can’t have TEs that can’t blame.
So you finish the season 28th in red zone scoring % but never thought the offense was a problem Nick? lol
Just came here to scream in agony/frustration AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GOD WHY PLEASE DAGUMMIT JESUS MARY AND JOSEPH
I get a feeling from Nick's press conference that we will look exactly the same next year. The entire coaching staff will be brought back and they most likely going to add more depth at the O line position and call it a day.
The Texans (and fans at the time) already went through this with the Kubiak era... except the roles were reversed (offense/defense). The same thing will happen here 2 years from now when they're finally "forced" to hire an experienced offensive coach, they have their best offensive season to date, and then you realize the window is just about closed based on where everybody is age-wise and where the team is at cap wise.
