That's one possibility, and I can appreciate that. But Texian's last comment citing what we've learned didn't strike me as speculative.
Caserio FUBARS Extraordinaire:
1/7 - Texans hire Nick Caserio.
Jan thru Apr Caserio refuses to take calls from any teams about Deshaun Watson
1/27 - Caserio hires David Culley first opening, last hire. Caserio's first hire is the worst HC hire in 2021.
3/2 - Resigns David Johnson to a $6MM contract
3/11 - Caserio restructures Cooks contract. borrows $2.5MM from 2022, 2023, 2024 ($7.5MM).
Restructure also cancels last year of contract. Cooks contract now expires after 2022 season.
3/20 -Caserio restructures Tunsil contract. By borrowing $10MM from future caps ($5MM 2022; $5MM 2023)
3/22 - Caserio trades for Shaq Lawson restructures contract, then trades Lawson to Jets, creating $1.8MM in Dead Cap.
3/23 - Caserio trades for Ryan Izzo. 8/31 Caserio cuts Izzo.
Caserio trades for Ryan Finley. 5/24 - Caserio cuts Finley
3/24 - Caserio restructures Mercilus contract. 10/19 - Caserio cuts Mercilus creating $7MM dead cap in 2022
3/30 - Caserio restructures Cunningham 4 year contract.Borrows $5.6MM from 2022, 2023, 2024. Likely cut/traded before 2022 season.
4/29 - NFL Draft. Caserio uses (8) 2021 draft picks and (2) 2022 draft picks to draft (5) players.
7/26 - Caserio trades for Anthony Miller. 10/6 - Caserio cuts Miller
9/9 - Caserio trades Roby to Saints, restructuring contract to eat $8.9MM in salary ($4.8MM in 2022). Value of 2nd rd pick, only gets a 3rd rd pick.
Nick Caserio has created over $37MM in 2021 dead cap money. As a result Caserio had to restructure (5) contracts to create over $35MM in order to sign a bunch of over 30 year olds to 1 year contracts in order to fill the roster.
Caserio has already created over $15MM in dead cap in 2022. Additionally reduced the 2022 salary cap by another $10MM+ from restructuring. 2022 dead cap money needed to trade Watson $16MM, to trade/cut Cunningham $12MM. $15MM + $10MM + $26MM =
Caserio responsible for $51MM in reduction of 2022 salary cap.
Texans only have 27 players under contract in 2022, that's 10 players less than the avg team.
This is a mess, a clown show, a dumpster fire, absence of intelligent thought, lacking common sense and logic. An exercise in buffoonery, Tom Foolery, menopause brain, lacking in basic skills in accounting and economics.
STAY TUNED.......DEVELOPING.......
Jan 2022 Upon hearing Brian Flores is fired, fires David Culley with the intention hire Flores until Flores files a lawsuit against NFL and the Texans.
Then proceeds to interview Josh McCown 3 times with the intent to hire until the lawsuit and Cal says no.
Caserio's last interviewee Jonathan Gannon withdraws his name after being told he cannot hire his own staff.
To be perfectly blunt, Nick Caserio has never had any NFL general manager experience. He was trained or prepared to be a general manager. Just like so many other Belichick admins who have mailed miserably over the years. Stay tuned for the #1 reason why you really don't want Nick Caserio as your General Manager.......coming up in the next post.