this is entirely on Caserio (and maybe Cal) all he had to do was say "we're starting Driskell to see what we have, and Brandon Cooks is not playing in this game so he avoids injury"
Yup. There seems to be a complete lack of common sense at the top of the Texans organization. People from strong organizations come here and suddenly lack basic intelligence. Look at Caserio. We will likely have our third head coach in three years after this season. We had players to trade with high value and held onto them and a number of players that just don’t want to be Texans. We had the #3 pick and got very little out of it when there were options to trade down and accumulate more picks. At some point Calbert McNair will get sick of his golf buddies laughing at him and he will hire a coach or GM with a clue and we will be back to the Kubiak days of good but not good enough. Whatever, this organization sucks. The Texans are the unemployed girlfriend that raw dogs your buddies while you are at work and has a burgeoning heroin addiction to go with her being a compulsive gambler. It’s the kind of “sucks” that doesn’t get better.
I think most people could get on board with this... Fire the whole staff but special teams. Fire Casserio. Hire back Rick Smith who rarely blew #1 picks. Hire DeMeco at coach and trade for Derek Carr. Trade down in draft for as many picks possible with best talent available. We win 8 games easy next year. Karma plan...
Man.......I knew this was going to happen. As so many have said, I don't put this on the players, I put this on Nick. Everyone who had relevance should have had the mysterious ankle injury and had to sit. The Colts tried so many times to give the Texans the game it was pathetic, we lose the #1 draft pick for what....a meaningless game to the horrid Colts and then fire the coach. We cant even lose right, Jeez man, this is pathetic.........if the Colts end up trading up to #1 and pick Bryce that will be just the perfect ending for a pathetic franchise, I had all the hope that Nick would do this right but now I question his ability............4th coach in 4 years, come on man.
I'm still in disbelief. I cannot imagine owning a sports team and allowing this to happen. Lovie was gone regardless. Did they really just decide to let Lovie go out with some positivity?
https://theathletic.com/4068505/2023/01/09/jim-harbaugh-broncos-russell-wilson/ 2. The Houston Texans’ two-point conversion was the right and wrong thing to do from an analytics standpoint. That’s fascinating when considering the two hats Nick Caserio wears for the team. Caserio is more than the Texans’ general manager. He is also the team’s game-management specialist. As such, he’s on the coaching headsets during games, advising the head coach on when to go for it on fourth down, when to try a two-point conversion, when to initiate replay challenges and the like. Those dual roles converged spectacularly Sunday when the Texans went for a two-point conversion in the final minute to beat Indianapolis, 32-31, while simultaneously ceding the first pick in the 2023 draft to Chicago. As GM, Caserio surely wanted the top pick. As game-management adviser, Caserio might generally prefer taking his chances on a two-point conversion instead of playing for overtime on the road. The final decision typically belongs to the head coach. If only we could have listened in Sunday after Davis Mills’ 28-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Akins on fourth-and-20 with 58 seconds remaining pulled Houston within one point. “The irony of Nick Caserio on the headset telling his head coach to go for 2 and the win, and then firing his head coach, and then five months later having to trade a future one and two to move up one spot so the Bears don’t trade the pick to Indy or whoever else needs a quarterback,” an exec from another team said. “He could be hailed and ridiculed by the analytics community. Will future (two-point play) charts have asterisks that brings draft-pick status into play?”
