Oh where to start. Being a busy body does not mean one knows his job, it could also be an exercise in futility. It could be he is just doing his job badly or worse than most. History alone suggest that being a Belichick clerk is a recipe for failure, there have been so many. Only a few weeks ago Bob Kraft was throwing Caserio under the bus for 5 years of bad drafting. We also learned that the Patriot Way without Tom Brady is kind of average and ordinary at best.
First thing out of the gate, Caserio said no college coaches would not be part of the hiring process. That is tunnel vision and limits scope and field for good coaches. Caserio's idea and answer was to hire a 65 yr old journeyman coach who has never been a HC or a coordinator. Culley's previous gig was QB coach and passing game coordinator who presided over the worst passing game in the NFL.
In answer to you your "laying the foundation" it is already a given that Culley will only be here a year or two at most. That means a new HC and new coordinators. So much for that foundation, not much of a foundation in my book, it's missing the rebar. A foundation crack is inevitable and a set back. Another start over in 2022 or 2023 is inevitable. Your newly established D and O is already kaput, it's already a start over and a set back.
All the commotion and activity by Caserio early on has been the equivalent of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Releasing JJ and trading Cooks is how you clean up the salary cap to the tune of $27MM worth. Getting a 2nd RD for Cooks is how you build draft capital. Cooks is a FA after 2022. Better to trade a year early than a year late. That's Basic GM 101. Caserio restructured his contract but Cooks is still FA after 2022 and Texans dead money in 2023. SMDH.
Restructuring (5) contracts that borrows $30MM from 2022 and 2023 salary caps IS NOT getting your salary cap in order.
IT IS BEING FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE, that is what IT IS! Restructuring 1 or 2 contracts may make some sense for a playoff team but
NOT for a team REBUILDING.
CERTAINLY NOT 5. Shows a strong lack of common sense, logical thinking and a basic lack of understanding of economics and finance. This may have be Nick's most egregious FUBARS in his short time as the Titanic's deck manager.
Trading away a 4th RD pick for an over the hill OL with a $7MM cap hit who was GOING TO GET CUT anyways and a FA in 2 years is an
EXERCISE IN STUPIDITY. Trading valuable draft capital in a REBUILDING year where you have NO 1st or 2nd RD draft picks for a backup QB who was GOING TO BE CUT anyways only compounds that stupidity. So you say the Texans would not have been able to sign them if they didn't trade for them. One thing we agree on,
IT"S A REBUILDING YEAR so not signing an over the hill OL and backup QB,
IT DOESN'T MATTER, IT'S A REBUILDING YEAR. It was only an exercise of WASTING salary cap space and draft capital.
THE PURPOSE OF REBUILDING IS NOT TO TRY AND WIN ENOUGH GAMES TO BE OUT OF THE TOP 10 in the draft. THE PURPOSE OF REBUIDING IS TO SUCK FOR HOWELL. ANY QUESTIONS SEE THE JAGS AND JETS.
HERE IS A GIVEN, EVERYBODY IN THE FOOTBALL UNIVERSE EXPECTS THE TEXANS TO GO 0 AND 17. DON'T DISAPPOINT THEM!
Please notice that my critique of Nick Caserio had absolutely nothing to do DW4. That's a discussion for another day. Next time Caserio offers up some Kool Aid, it would be best to abstain, don't drink it. It makes you think he is a genius and ready for the Hall of Fame.
Nick Caserio is behaving exactly in a way I would expect a Bill Belichick clerk to behave.