Here is a list of everything I have taken into consideration over the last 2 years.
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, Texans had first job opening, last to 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.
3/14 - Caserio trades draft picks for Marcus Cannon who was going to be cut. Pays him $6MM when he could have signed as FA for a little more than vet minimum.
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, creates $1.8MM in Dead Cap.
3/23 - Caserio trades draft pick for Ryan Izzo. 8/31 Caserio cuts Izzo.
Caserio trades draft pick for Ryan Finley. 5/24 - Caserio cuts Finley
3/20/22 - Caserio trades Watson to Browns. Insisted he would have to have (3) 1st RD picks, (1) 2nd RD pick and (1) 3rd RD pick, plus players. Got (3) 1s, no 2s, (1) 3 and (2) 4s.
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. 12/8 Caserio cuts Cunningham
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. Then 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.
In 2021 Caserio created over $15MM in dead cap in 2022. Additionally reduced the 2022 salary cap by another $10MM+ from restructuring.
Caserio responsible for creating $77MM in dead cap in 2022.
Texans only had 27 players under contract in 2022, that's 10 players less than the avg team.
3/14/2022 - Caserio restructures Laremy Tunsil contract again creating over $13MM in 2023 dead cap and a 2023 cap hit of 15% of the salary cap.
9/20/2022 - Caserio restructures Cooks contract, adding back 1 year to the contract they cut the previous year. Creates a 2023 cap hit of over $26MM, over 11% of the total cap and dead money cap hit of $34MM in 2023.
Texans started 2021 season with 54 contracts and $6MM
OVER the cap.
If the Texans had made the following moves they would've been
$48MM UNDER the cap. They would not of had to resort to mortgaging the future to the tune of
OVER $35MM in contract restructuring, $37MM in Dead Cap in 2021 and would've added a 2nd rd draft pick.
B. McKinney | Release | | $7.00m |
D. Johnson | Release | | $6.90m |
Z. Fulton | Release | | $3.00m |
Du. Johnson | Release | | $5.15m |
B. Dunn | Release | | $3.25m |
B. Cooks | Trade | | $12.00m |
J. Watt | Release | | $17.50m |
Total Saved | | | $54.80m |
THIS IS WHY THE HOUSTON TEXANS ARE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE NFL AND WHY MANY PERSPECTIVE HC CANDIDATES HAVE NO INTENTION OF COMING TO HOUSTON AND WHY SEAN PAYTON OPENLY MOCKED THE TEXANS FRONT OFFICE DYSFUNCTION.
THE BOTTOMLINE HERE IS NICK CASERIO INHERITED A BAD SITUATION AND MADE IT MUCH WORSE.
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