Do these guys honestly believe that Bob McNair would let Casserly take Williams and then fire him because of it? Do they think McNair was out running his horses on draft day? The worst kept secret was that Casserly had already earned his ticket out of town after last year's debacle hence the bringing in of Dan Reeves. Casserly's dismissal yesterday only confirms to me that Charlie had ZERO input in this draft. Besides this draft was very uncharacteristic of Charlie.
If Casserly has a high enough pick he normally always takes "the sure guy", the guy the media is in love with like Desmond Howard, Heath Schuler, Michael Westbrook, David Carr, etc. Once he does this, he normally reaches in the later rounds, occasionally gets lucky (Dom Davis) however more often than not misses. I think Casserly would have taken Bush (the man had a man crush on Bush) and probably would have not have taken some of the quality players we got in later rounds. IMO, this draft was too good to have Charlie's stamp on it.
I think Casserly and McNair made a deal so that he could leave gracefully. McNair probably told him to tote the "company line" until after the draft where he could then "resign" and move on with his career. I am sure the whole "you can blame me" tagline was part of the deal also. I think he made that a little too obvious by over selling it. Any other year (when taking heat) he would have made a comment about how the coach's played into the decision.
Casserly "resigned" because of Jason Babin, Travis Johnson, Bennie Joppru, etc.