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Houston Chronicle: (per John McClain's Sources) Casserly to stay as GM next year
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CowboysTexansFan
Waterboy
No kidding. Ideally, if Casserly had to stay, he wouldn't have his contract extended. I'm not at all comfortable with Casserly remaining in charge of our personnel department. Oh well.
HoustonFrog
Dallas Frog
disturbedtexansfan513 said:
There is no way you can do that. You can find O-lineman in free agency and in the middle round. You are wasting a pick if you take an O-lineman so high.
Jack Bauer
Rookie
I am depressed! They should have both been fired.
Casserly is the GM and is one of the primary people responsible for personnel decisions. Wether it was the coaches ideas to make the bad moves or not, Casserly should not allow it if it is a bad move. Two years in a row, the team gave up way too much for players who aren't even starters(2n & 3rd rounder for Buchanon and 2nd, 3rd &4th rounder for Babin.) They have let the wrong people go(Glenn and Sharper), overpayed free agents(Greenwood & Wade), and made bad 2-5 round picks(Gafney, Joppru, Wand, Hollings, etc.) Some of that blame has to be placed on Casserly, if not most of it. The personnel decisions, not the coaching and playcalling, are why the team went from 7-9 to 2-14 with not a whole lot to look forward to next year except Reggie Bush.
Tulip
Veteran
Ryan71780 said:
Because McNair and Reeves aren't as smart as all of the keyboard owners/managers here on this board.
I am still entertaining theories as to why the Texans offense fell off this season with no major personnel subtractions - and how this can be blamed on Casserly. I'm listening. Really, I am.
Tulip said:
Casserly is the GM and is one of the primary people responsible for personnel decisions. Wether it was the coaches ideas to make the bad moves or not, Casserly should not allow it if it is a bad move. Two years in a row, the team gave up way too much for players who aren't even starters(2n & 3rd rounder for Buchanon and 2nd, 3rd &4th rounder for Babin.) They have let the wrong people go(Glenn and Sharper), overpayed free agents(Greenwood & Wade), and made bad 2-5 round picks(Gafney, Joppru, Wand, Hollings, etc.) Some of that blame has to be placed on casserly, if not most of it. The personnel decisions, not the coaching and playcalling, are why the team went from 7-9 to 2-14 with not a whole lot to look forward to next year except Reggie Bush.
S
SESupergenius
Guest
Shoot, that is easy. They didn't upgrade the oline, moved Riley to LT and switched the continuity of the offensive line around. It's the 4th year in a row the oline has been changed and Casserly not providing Capers with upgrades. Add to that we still have no upgrade at TE, 2nd reciever and our RB's can't pick up the blitz.Tulip said:
S
SESupergenius
Guest
the shifting of the offensive line around accounted for many more sacks than last year and we had to fire our Offensive Coordinator and install a simplistic quick pass offense. Riley was brought in as our upgrade for the offensive line as was a street free agent at the end of the season. There you have it.Tulip said:
TheOgre
All Pro
Dan Reeves must have seen talent on this team and a lack of coaching/good schemes. That is the only explanation for why Casserly is still here. If Casserly has done some solid drafting but Caper's staff has mismanaged/misued that talent, then I can see why he was retained. I don't necessarily think that is the case, but apparently Reeves does.
S
SESupergenius
Guest
Then explain why McNair is holding Casserly's hand through all of the decisions that will be made in the next few months? It's not like he has complete confidence in Casserly if he has to hire outside consultants and is getting more involved in the process. Casserly hired Capers as well, so if Capers is all the bad then that one is on him as well. Why is Casserly getting such a free ride, I don't get it.TheOgre said:
rafterticket
Waterboy
Charlie Casserly has given our first round and two third choices to Miami for Ricky Williams!
Hervoyel
BUENO!
SESupergenius said:
I think Bob has now gone through the experience of standing before a room full of reporters and not having any of the answers to their questions. He's not going to let it happen again. I think this 2-14 campaign blindsided Bob McNair to some extent and the interview he gave to the Chronicle is evidence of that fact. The team reached a point where they were losing so often that he had to go looking for answers on his own and what he learned clearly shocked him.
McNair is holding Casserly's hand because he's going to know about everything that happens from here on out. He's moved past the point where he's going to sit in his office, sign checks, and smile and nod when his minions tell him what's going on. He's going to see for himself what's going on and his coach and GM had better not mind stopping to explain it all to him.
Now is the scary part IMO. We learn this year whether our owner has Jerry Jones like inclinations. We learn if he has anything in common with Bud Adams. We're going to learn more about Bob McNair as an owner this year than we've learned in all the years up till now.
I think what we've seen so far bodes well for the future. He fired Dom and he fired the staff but he didn't do one of those great Bud-type purges.
Casserly's wings have been clipped a bit based on some of McN's comments yesterday (the part about draft day decisions - extending powers of the head coach), McN making the decision on who the new coach will be, not to mention the Reeves consultant gig. Plus, CC is in his last year of his contract so this could be McN's way of transitioning him out after '06 unless this thing really gets turned around unexpectedly. The question for the next year will be "what record will save CC?"