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We just disagree then.I absolutely do not believe Watson's actions limited what the Texans got.
I believe thinking that it would limited what the Texans got.
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We just disagree then.I absolutely do not believe Watson's actions limited what the Texans got.
I believe thinking that it would limited what the Texans got.
Well, maybe those guys need better agents. Your agent should try to squeeze every penny out of billionaire owned teams for the short span they have. Wilson, if nothing else should've redone his deal. Rodgers contingency upon retirement was about the money. You know as well as I don't nfl contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on unless it the g-money. Remember when McNair had that 50m p-5 bonus clause at the end of his contract when he was with the Titans? they basically knew that no way in hell they were going to pay him 50m. They reworked his contract and traded him to the Ravens. Thats the nfl. Owners are always lying saying what they can't do to field the best team possible. The Saints have as much cap room as the Texans and they're still packing Drew Brees money.I don't think Nick can control contract negotiations between teams.
Nick had him under contract & it's that contract that's being traded.
Watson wasn't a FA. Contract negotiations shouldn't have been part of this at all. The attractive part of the trade was you had a young QB locked into a contract.
Russell Wilson didn't get a new contract, neither did Carson Wentz, neither did Matthew Stafford.
I could see Watson asking the Texans to allow contract negotiations so he could protect his money in the event he gets suspended. But he pulled a fast one & redid the whole thing.
Nick, who had him under contract should have allowed him to ask that it would be renegotiated after the trade. & let Nick negotiate a trade between 3 teams.
That's not what happened. I know. But Watson was under contract. That's all I'm saying
Russell WilsonTK this is where you’re not getting have the waiver of the NTC works.
What are you talking about?You can put players through a stress test to test injuries.I'm not complaining because obviously the owners signed off on trading him just as they signed off on trading Hopkins.
Again, I wouldn't pay him. Let them resolve it in Arbitration after his playing/not playing is settled or he's traded.The next is nix all the trades, keep Watson on the roster, watch him not play again while this time getting a huge paycheck and let this nightmare continue another year
I've got receipts. 4 teams at the table, Nick got exactly what he asked for.We just disagree then.
I bet Wilson is kicking rocks right now.Well, maybe those guys need better agents. Your agent should try to squeeze every penny out of billionaire owned teams for the short span they have. Wilson, if nothing else should've redone his deal.
You can exchange Watson for a 1 lb roast or a 3 lb roast. You can marinate however you like. Regardless the 3 lb roast will feed a lot more people (build a better team). I understand some folks are trying to be cute and are trying to make up a lot of excuses to justify Caserio's inconceivable blunder. It goes rather well with the Kool Aid.Your post and what you said for a reminder.
Nick had a $10 million dollar home for sale. He stuck a For Sale for $7 million sign in the front yard.I've got receipts. 4 teams at the table, Nick got exactly what he asked for.
Had he got less than what he asked your argument might have legs.
I've got receipts. 4 teams at the table, Nick got exactly what he asked for.
Had he got less than what he asked your argument might have legs.
I bet Wilson is kicking rocks right now.
But I doubt Carroll would have been as willing as the Texans to drop their drawers & assume whatever position Watson asked for.
This is not the only time a player with a NTC was ever traded. This isn't the first time either. It's the first time Houston ever did it. It's the first & only time it's been done like this
& after seeing what Denver gave for Wilson compared to what Houston got for Watson I don't see the benefit of letting Watson drive the bus.
Too many teams willing to give what Nick asked.
That Nick got what he asked for, I'm not at all disappointed in the trade.
But all these arguments that Nick was hamstrung or "this is the way it had to be".... all BS
Again, I wouldn't pay him. Let them resolve it in Arbitration after his playing/not playing is settled or he's traded.
Texans got lawyers too. Put them to work.
I think he sold a $10M home for $10M dollars in a market that would have brought $12.5MNick had a $10 million dollar home for sale. He stuck a For Sale for $7 million sign in the front yard.
Russell Wilson
The Texans let Watson do whatever he wanted. No one has ever been traded like this, even with a NTC.
This is the way the Texans did it. No one else has ever done it this way.
Did Russell Wilson parade around the country negotiating his trade? Did team owners fly to Seattle for a sit down with Russell Wilson?
Did you even think Wilson would be traded before Watson?
If they were Smart Atlanta should be working the phones right now negotiating a trade for Matt Ryan & his NTC, & you won't hear about it until it's done.
That's the way NTCs work outside of Houston.
Here's a list of teams that want you. Scratch off the teams you won't play for. & if it's only one team left, you write another list.
Then Watson & his team are out of the conversation until they're on a plane to whichever team gave you the best deal.
Russell Wilson
It doesn’t seem anyone outside of Houston cared about the allegations. No one asked Nick to lower his ask.That’s what it is and I believe it could have been even much more if none of this massage pervert nonsense ever surfaced.
Exactly and if ATL had met the $230MM GTD DW4 would be a Falcon today. Make no BS about it. I do know that what went on behind closed doors is the boys in the Kirby Boardroom got played or are just dumb as hell. Probably both.
Exactly. Once the criminal charges were nullified, no one cared about the civil suits. No one.Cleveland paid 50% more than any other team had before in the past to guarantee the contract.
That is ludicrous on a player that can be still suspended, has to settle a civil case, or could still go to jail.
We were going by exactly what you typed...My post said nothing about buying beef, it only mentioned marinating it. Reading and COMPREHEND MUCH?
HONESTY TOO MUCH FOR YOU?Regardless the roast cost the same.
I’m pretty sure it would have gone to arbitration.They would have to pay him otherwise they would be in breach of contract and would then have to pay him more. This wouldn’t go to arbitration this would go court. You’re exactly right Texans have lawyers and I promise you those lawyers were consulted and told the Texans you’re screw,Ed just get him out of here.
You can exchange Watson for a 1 lb roast or a 3 lb roast. You can marinate however you like. Regardless the 3 lb roast will feed a lot more people (build a better team). I understand some folks are trying to be cute and are trying to make up a lot of excuses to justify Caserio's inconceivable blunder. It goes rather well with the Kool Aid.
DW4 is better than Ryan if he plays all 17 but not that much better to make them an instant contenderC'mon man, you're smarter than this. The Falcons would have been enormously better with DW4. And next year they have an abundance of salary cap space.
I’m pretty sure it would have gone to arbitration.
I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t cost the Texans anymore money
with Watson refusing to play you could argue he was in breech first, which is why it would go to arbitration. Or court, same thing.
He’s going to get his money. Just not now.
Nobody with this hanging over his head should have leverage over anyone.Wilson also doesn’t have 22 pending civil suits and escape criminal charges by the skin of his teeth.
Wilson didn’t try and play NFL bachelor and make 4 teams interview for him to see who he would gift with his presence.
I agree with the bulk of your post - just curious about the last sentence?Nobody with this hanging over his head should have leverage over anyone.
$230M says at least one team was desperate for his services. Leverage Texans
Four teams ante up three 1sts just to sit at the table. Leverage Texans
Every argument you make is a reason the Texans should have had more leverage, not less.
That was on the Texans. No other player ever traded with a NTC put on such a circus. This is not the way it’s been done in the past. It’s not the way it was done 5 days before.
this is more of the Texans finding new ways to screw themselves.
We don’t know what he told Culley but I’m pretty sure his intentions were made clear in that meeting.See that’s the thing he never technically refused to play. If he had failed to report to mandatory training camp or the games then you have a case but he never did. Texans were the ones that benched him all year and didn’t push the issue. I personally think that was a mistake but it’s one I can see why they would make because the other choice was a mistake to. A true damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.
Statements made to the media about never playing again mean absolutely nothing, it’s if you actually violate the terms of the contract and Watson was careful not to.
Exactly. Once the criminal charges were nullified, no one cared about the civil suits. No one.
In our heads, we think it was a factor & so we shape our expectations.
Nobody cared that Watson didn’t play last season & was threatening not to play in 2023.
In Houston we saw those as issues, problems, hurdles. Everyone else saw opportunity.
They were falling over each other to give us three 1s
I really shouldn’t have said it that way. I don’t think the Texans got screwed. They set a price, they got that price.I agree with the bulk of your post - just curious about the last sentence?
Seems to me they wanted to play hot potato and found a player/victim.
Agreed on all pointsI agree. We held onto our perceptions. Nick may have too.
Could Nick have gotten more? It is possible. I agree with what you are saying.
There is a sucker born ever minute. Cleveland more than proved that.
When two parties agree to a deal and feel it good for both of them that makes a good deal.
I have no sellers remorse. My bias confirms that.
I'm normally on the pessimistic side of Texans actions... regarding this trade though I have not suddenly become optimistic.I am simply pleased with the thought that this is, or should be over. It seems that those who are displeased with the haul see it as a clear sign that the Texans are still a “rudderless” organization. Those who are satisfied with the trade seem to feel like this is the first sign the Texans have shown in ages that they do indeed have a rudder at all. I lean toward the latter opinion. Maybe it’s just that I’ve grown accustomed to seeing great Texans players (or in some cases “formerly great”) sent on their way for little to nothing. I don’t know but I do think that this has dragged along for so long that seeing it end with something substantial is enough for me. If Watson is gone and the Texans have multiple chances to screw up in the first round for the next three years that seems like as good as it gets in this town.
Now that is exactly why I know you’d a much better job. That’s how a real NFL GM like John Schneider would have gone about in making this trade not the idiots we have running things.Hey Jimmy, Hey Andrew, Congratulations on coming to terms with DeShaun and that record setting offer.
Listen, I think we can finish this up in matter of minutes here. As you know Nick Caserio's original ask was only a minimum that got your foot in door and allowed you to speak with Deshaun. Now that we are here in the 9th inning, all that is left to do is hammer out our agreed compensation.
I'm not going to ask for another record setting deal. The bar has been set and the market has been set with the Russell Wilson trade to the Broncos. I think we all can agree on that. That's were I want to go and where we should start. I think we can do this in 5 minutes. OK, you got pens and pads ready? This is what I need to make this thing happen and will close the deal:
2022 your 1st RD pick #13 and your 2nd RD pick #44. In 2023, your 1st and 2nd RD picks. Because DeShaun is 7 years younger than Russell and will play in 200 games for you, 100 more than Russell will play for the Broncos we have to have your 2024 1st RD pick. That covers the draft picks.
Now on to the players that will wrap this all up:
Baker Mayfield. You took away our nightmare and headache and we can do the same for you.
Our Head Coach Lovie Smith is partial to one of two on your defense, LB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoraj or SS Grant Delpit. And finally the guy that can put this all to bed, backup DT Tommy Togai. If you don't like this we can start over with Myles Garrett instead of Baker Mayfield?
This puts us on par with the Wilson trade here. I'm not going to try and one up you and do one better than the Wilson trade. If you want some time to think it over I understand. I just want you to know our asking price is not going down, it will only go up. Tomorrow a 2025 1st RD will be added to the deal. If you don't agree to our asking price then we will not trade DeShaun Watson to you and when I hang up my next call will be to Athur Blank and the Atlanta Falcons. I'm sure Arthur would love a chance to get back in this thing. Arthur may have a change of mind just like you did.
What's that, your fine with the proposal. We can have Delpit. OK then we can draw up the paperwork and send it in to the NFL? OK then you guys got yourself one hell of a franchise QB. Congratulations!
Lol, oh please. PLEASE. You are just making it worse.You can exchange Watson for a 1 lb roast or a 3 lb roast. You can marinate however you like. Regardless the 3 lb roast will feed a lot more people (build a better team). I understand some folks are trying to be cute and are trying to make up a lot of excuses to justify Caserio's inconceivable blunder. It goes rather well with the Kool Aid.
Well Nick probably did call them and said,Now that is exactly why I know you’d a much better job. That’s how a real NFL GM like John Schneider would have gone about in making this trade not the idiots we have running things.
I really shouldn’t have said it that way. I don’t think the Texans got screwed. They set a price, they got that price.
My only problem is with the argument that this is the way it’s done.
At the very least we know there were three teams Watson was willing to play for. Carolina, New Orleans, Atlanta.
“Will you waive the NTC for these three teams?” That should have been the only question asked. If he says no to any two, we shelve the trade talks to a later date & get on with the draft, free agency, & clearing cap room.
Yes I have and no don't have a bias. Nick has earned every single criticism. Twice I applauded Nick decisions. The first when he traded Roby, Although he did get short changed on that trade as well. (starting to see a pattern here) The other is when he didn't trade DW4 before the trade dead line. I knew there would be more suitors and said there would be 1 owner/GM who could not resist the temptation. What I didn't know (but I really did) is that Nick didn't know how to play the game.Have you ever considered you have an emotionally inherit bias against Caserio that clouds your ability to objectively look at anything he does?
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 |
Watson and his agent locked the Texans in a room and said here’s your steak and here’s your spoon.
No one asked Nick to lower his ask.
Exactly. Once the criminal charges were nullified, no one cared about the civil suits. No one.
In our heads, we think it was a factor & so we shape our expectations.
Nobody cared that Watson didn’t play last season & was threatening not to play in 2023.
In Houston we saw those as issues, problems, hurdles. Everyone else saw opportunity.
They were falling over each other to give us three 1s
He's not going to jail. The most can happen is lose games and checks. Doesn't make him a better person character wise, buy we have to stop making up stuffThe Seahawks could’ve gotten a better deal from WFT but turned it down.
Wilson never threatened to my knowledge to sit out and not play. Wilson said this trade was initiated by Seattle’s FO but was a mutual agreement.
It is a much different scenario to have a player threaten to not play and collect 35 million dollars. That is being held hostage.
And it is different to have the same player that has value to be traded but could evaporate at a moment’s notice because of legal issues.
There is a lot different in those scenarios.
Cleveland paid 50% more than any other team had before in the past to guarantee the contract.
That is ludicrous on a player that can be still suspended, has to settle a civil case, or could still go to jail.
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Let me ask you a question and see how smart you are - if you have $1 in your pocket today is it worth more or less than a $1 in your pocket next year? If you can answer that question correctly, you’ll know why Texian and I are right.
Why do you say nobody outside of Houston cares? There are some Cleveland fans that would disagree with you and some Saints and Panthers fans glad that they didn’t get the not so shiny new toy.It doesn’t seem anyone outside of Houston cared about the allegations. No one asked Nick to lower his ask.
What part of the Russell Wilson trade do you not understand? And the $230 MILLION GUARANTEED?Please come back to objectiveness man, when you do you make a lot of sense.
3 first round picks a third and a fourth is not being played at all.
Could they have gotten more? Who knows?
One fact is the dumbasses that run this team could have done a lot worse.
It’s something to rebuild this team and we got rid of the quitter that has baggage as far as you can stick your finger!
6 teams were ready to give Nick three 1st round picks. Nobody is a bit hyperbole, but for all intents & purposes, it fits.Why do you say nobody outside of Houston cares?
Right. The mistake was thinking those people would be at the negotiating tableThere are some Cleveland fans that would disagree with you and some Saints and Panthers fans glad that they didn’t get the not so shiny new toy.
I believe he did. Like I said, he asked for what he wanted. He got what he wanted. I don’t have any complaints about the deal.By the way has it occured to you that Nick read the situation correctly and therefore started the negotiations at the fair market value? Is that in the realm of possibility?
Alternate viewpoint - Nick tried desperately to rectify varying degrees of pain points in a situation he inherited, not created. Then was humble enough to cut bait and move on once those minor decisions for situations he did not create did not pan out. I care little about the coaching hires made, give me the 2022 and 2023 draft before my jury is out in NC.Yes I have and no don't have a bias. Nick has earned every single criticism. Twice I applauded Nick decisions. The first when he traded Roby, Although he did get short changed on that trade as well. (starting to see a pattern here) The other is when he didn't trade DW4 before the trade dead line. I knew there would be more suitors and said there would be 1 owner/GM who could not resist the temptation. What I didn't know (but I really did) is that Nick didn't know how to play the game.
Now, have you taken into consideration that you are a homer, and that in your eyes, Nick Caserio can do wrong and you have an unabashed crush on Nick Caserio? Let's review objectively the how and why's Caserio has earned so many criticisms in a such a short time. Should we start with the Culley hire?
Caserio FUBARS Extraordinaire:
1/7 - Texans hire Nick Caserio.
Jan thru Apr Caserio refuses to take calls from any teams about Deshaun Watson. That's what GMs do is take calls, not ignore them.
1/27 - Caserio hires David Culley first opening, last hire. Caserio's first hire is the worst HC hire in 2021. Before hiring Culley, Caserio had hired all assistant coaches.
3/2 - Resigns David Johnson to a $6MM contract (makes no sense)
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, creates $1.8MM in Dead Cap. This really is a bonehead move.
3/23 - Caserio trades for Ryan Izzo. 8/31 Caserio cuts Izzo. - wasted draft pick
Caserio trades for Ryan Finley. 5/24 - Caserio cuts Finley - another wasted draft pick
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 - Nick cuts Cunningham
4/29 - NFL Draft. Caserio uses (8) 2021 draft picks and (2) 2022 draft picks to draft (5) players. Don't forget Nick has already used 2 other draft picks on cut players.
7/26 - Caserio trades for Anthony Miller. 10/6 - Caserio cuts Miller - another wasted draft pick
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 the hill 30 year olds to 1 year contracts in order to fill the roster.
Today Caserio responsible for $51MM in reduction of 2022 salary cap thru dead cap he created. He started 2021 with $0 dead cap money in 2022, now has over $50MM.
Texans only had 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.
Texans started 2021 season with 54 contracts and $6MM OVER the cap.
If Nick Caserio had made the following moves (below) they would've been $48MM UNDER the cap. That's $48 MILLION 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.
This is how 2022 started:
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
After hearing the Dolphins fired Flores, Caserio started off the year by firing Culley. Since McDaniels had no interest in the Texans (I wonder why) Nick was going to hire the ex-Patriot Flores. Oops, Flores files a lawsuit against the NFL and the Texans. So after 3 interviews Caserio was ready to hire a person with no coaching experience as the new head coach, Josh McKown. Except the lawsuit would've made that an absolute PR nightmare for the Texans and the NFL. Caserio's only the other option was Jonathan Gannon who withdrew after being told he could not hire is own coaching staff. At which point Cal McNair, Cal McNair dammit, had to step in and hire Lovie Smith to finally put an end to all of this madness. Whew. That's 2 head coaching searches that turned into 2 nightmare horror stories.
and then there is the DW4 trade where Nick Caserio was able to get .70 on the dollar.
STAY TUNED.......DEVELOPING.......
Good pointAlternate viewpoint - Nick tried desperately to rectify varying degrees of pain points in a situation he inherited, not created.
What part of the Russell Wilson trade do you not understand? And the $230 MILLION GUARANTEED?
One very big factor in not forcing him to play, it would have to have happened before the regular season or he would be worthless for at least half of the season. And if he feigned injury in preseason, he would have had to be placed on IR with no chance of being designated to return the rest of the season. A player on IR cannot be traded. He needed to simply ride the pine to be able to be tradeable during the 2021 season.See that’s the thing he never technically refused to play. If he had failed to report to mandatory training camp or the games then you have a case but he never did. Texans were the ones that benched him all year and didn’t push the issue. I personally think that was a mistake but it’s one I can see why they would make because the other choice was a mistake to. A true damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.
Statements made to the media about never playing again mean absolutely nothing, it’s if you actually violate the terms of the contract and Watson was careful not to.
That’s far from the truth. I could think of way worse decisions that would’ve been objectively worse. That’s just your subjective take on things.Good point
Except, at every opportunity Nick chose the objectively worse decision.
Yes I have and no don't have a bias. Nick has earned every single criticism. Twice I applauded Nick decisions. The first when he traded Roby, Although he did get short changed on that trade as well. (starting to see a pattern here) The other is when he didn't trade DW4 before the trade dead line. I knew there would be more suitors and said there would be 1 owner/GM who could not resist the temptation. What I didn't know (but I really did) is that Nick didn't know how to play the game.
Now, have you taken into consideration that you are a homer, and that in your eyes, Nick Caserio can do wrong and you have an unabashed crush on Nick Caserio? Let's review objectively the how and why's Caserio has earned so many criticisms in a such a short time. Should we start with the Culley hire?
Caserio FUBARS Extraordinaire:
1/7 - Texans hire Nick Caserio.
Jan thru Apr Caserio refuses to take calls from any teams about Deshaun Watson. That's what GMs do is take calls, not ignore them.
1/27 - Caserio hires David Culley first opening, last hire. Caserio's first hire is the worst HC hire in 2021. Before hiring Culley, Caserio had hired all assistant coaches.
3/2 - Resigns David Johnson to a $6MM contract (makes no sense)
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, creates $1.8MM in Dead Cap. This really is a bonehead move.
3/23 - Caserio trades for Ryan Izzo. 8/31 Caserio cuts Izzo. - wasted draft pick
Caserio trades for Ryan Finley. 5/24 - Caserio cuts Finley - another wasted draft pick
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 - Nick cuts Cunningham
4/29 - NFL Draft. Caserio uses (8) 2021 draft picks and (2) 2022 draft picks to draft (5) players. Don't forget Nick has already used 2 other draft picks on cut players.
7/26 - Caserio trades for Anthony Miller. 10/6 - Caserio cuts Miller - another wasted draft pick
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 the hill 30 year olds to 1 year contracts in order to fill the roster.
Today Caserio responsible for $51MM in reduction of 2022 salary cap thru dead cap he created. He started 2021 with $0 dead cap money in 2022, now has over $50MM.
Texans only had 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.
Texans started 2021 season with 54 contracts and $6MM OVER the cap.
If Nick Caserio had made the following moves (below) they would've been $48MM UNDER the cap. That's $48 MILLION 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.
This is how 2022 started:
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
After hearing the Dolphins fired Flores, Caserio started off the year by firing Culley. Since McDaniels had no interest in the Texans (I wonder why) Nick was going to hire the ex-Patriot Flores. Oops, Flores files a lawsuit against the NFL and the Texans. So after 3 interviews Caserio was ready to hire a person with no coaching experience as the new head coach, Josh McKown. Except the lawsuit would've made that an absolute PR nightmare for the Texans and the NFL. Caserio's only the other option was Jonathan Gannon who withdrew after being told he could not hire is own coaching staff. At which point Cal McNair, Cal McNair dammit, had to step in and hire Lovie Smith to finally put an end to all of this madness. Whew. That's 2 head coaching searches that turned into 2 nightmare horror stories.
and then there is the DW4 trade where Nick Caserio was able to get .70 on the dollar.
STAY TUNED.......DEVELOPING.......
The owner should've stepped in and fired Carroll and kept Wilson. Minus Wilson, Carroll is a losing coach with old antiquated logic about new football.I bet Wilson is kicking rocks right now.
But I doubt Carroll would have been as willing as the Texans to drop their drawers & assume whatever position Watson asked for.
This is not the only time a player with a NTC was ever traded. This isn't the first time either. It's the first time Houston ever did it. It's the first & only time it's been done like this
& after seeing what Denver gave for Wilson compared to what Houston got for Watson I don't see the benefit of letting Watson drive the bus.
Too many teams willing to give what Nick asked.
That Nick got what he asked for, I'm not at all disappointed in the trade.
But all these arguments that Nick was hamstrung or "this is the way it had to be".... all BS