Casserly's track record should be trusted right now

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hehe.. I love Gaffney.. he gets my vote for "most underappreciated Texan"

 

[Texans_Chick]

It is FA where he has totally boned. I have a hard time thinking of ONE good FA move. THere may be a few in the first season.. but since then I cant think of any good FA prospects he has brought in... not any he has kept anyway.. and there is a long list of good players he has let go.

FA is tough. Most really good FAs get kept by their teams if they are that valuable. And most quality FAs don't want to risk a finite career on an expansion team. Our most experienced best players came from the initial expansion draft, and some of them will be leaving in the short term because of age and injury.

We have a nice city to attract players to, no state income tax, a nice stadium, and lots of good players from Texas want to come back to the state, but unless you look like you are gonna be winning soon, it is hard to attract good FAs without overpaying them.

As for the good players we have let go, it is non suprising that a number of them thrive in systems better than ours and surrounded with players better than ours. You take any good player, and surround them with more talent and a cohesive system, and they are going to play better as part of a better team. It is hard to say if we had kept Foley or McCree or any number of players, they would have had made much of a difference to our 2-14.

I don't mean to be a CC apologist or anything, but I have to say that I am extremely empathetic to any GM trying to put together a team from scratch with a hard cap, teams understanding the FA market better and being able to keep their better players, and just the development time it takes with rookies--whose development is the key to having a better team.

People say in retrospect, we should took this guy or kept that guy, but there is no saying how those players would do with a team with as little depth as ours. And depth takes time.