Is keeping Casserly a mistake?

[the wonger need food]

It's obvious to us that keeping Casserole around is a mistake.

Maybe McNair thinks that he needs more time to gel.

 

[TexansFanatic]

How so? Chester Pitts was chosen in the 2nd round of the Texans' first draft.

Willie Roaf did work out for KC, but he was a huge gamble because he was having really bad personal problems to go with his own injury problems.

And Boselli was never counted on. The Texans took him to get Gary Walker and Seth Payne - and I think Boselli was worth what we got in Walker and Payne.

Chester Pitts was selected as a guard. He has become a fairly good left tackle, but are you telling me you consider him to be a premier NFL left tackle? Someone you can build a franchise around?

I've heard the whole "Taking Boselli allowed them to get Walker and Payne" line a million times. It's clearly become the company line. It doesn't whitewash the fact that the team was holding a spot for Boselli all along, thinking he would eventually pan out. If not, they would have gone out and found a true left tackle to fill that spot. Or, hey, maybe they're even more incompetent than I am even accusing them of being and they really thought they were fine at that position without the possibility of Boselli's return....

 

[Runner]

I think that McNair realizes that we were 7-9 last year and that almost NO player is playing better now than he was at the beginning/middle of last year. Stats are down, "play making" is down, confidence is down - that is due to the coaching since the overwhelming majority of last year's players were still here this year.

I admit that on the defensive side there can be an argument made that we had some poor personnel moves; however I think those were exacerbated by coaches not taking advantage of our players' strengths.

On the offensive side I think Joe Pendry's influence on this season's pathetic failure can not be over estimated. He has been a cancer to this team since he got here.

 

[OzzO]

Not defending the guy at all - my point is not to completely start over after one bomb year, especially if it's not known (even a suggested GM to the common folk, if we don't know the "hidden GM's" out there) on who would replace him. Getting rid of both would be a start over decision, and that may seem a rash decision to McNair.

He's got Reeves consulting him, and just like everyone else's opinions - one side you have JJ's "no talent" then the other side you have (what appears to be) Reeves "bad coaching". Who knows, maybe Reeves informed McNair that it would be more sound to take care of one issue at a time and not a full sweep.

Understandable it the GM's final say on players, but I agree with what was mentioned above - can't bring in the players the coaches don't want. Maybe it was just that Casserly and Capers couldn't agree / communicate on what was needed and best for the team.

It would be interesting to compare current GM's of all teams and their hit/miss ratio of drafts. I woould think it'd be a bell shaped curve if graphed and I don't think Casserly would be on the low end of the curve, but grouped in with the majority.... maybe I'm just oblivious.

 

[Tulip]

It would be interesting to compare current GM's of all teams and their hit/miss ratio of drafts. I woould think it'd be a bell shaped curve if graphed and I don't think Casserly would be on the low end of the curve, but grouped in with the majority.... maybe I'm just oblivious.

I would love to see something like this. I'd think a comparison would lead to some surprising results.

 

[aj.]

And Boselli was never counted on. The Texans took him to get Gary Walker and Seth Payne - and I think Boselli was worth what we got in Walker and Payne.

What is this, revisionist history again?

Casserly made Tony Boselli the first choice in the expansion draft with the idea that he would be the best guy to protect David Carr's blind side. That's not an opinion, that's a fact.

Go back and dig through some archives and you will see that in early 2002, everyone, including Boselli, thought the shoulder was better than it really was.

 

[HoustonFrog]

I think one thing people are missing isn't who he picked as much as who he didn't pick. I obviously don't see the talent. Walker and Payne?They aren't gang busters. They wouldn't start on many teams around the league. Look at those drafts again and what is missing is O-line. When you use up all your middle round picks the last two years on RBs, DBs and QBs then you aren't doing your job, knowing you need O-line. Those aren't throw away picks, they are valuable.

 

[OzzO]

I guess they already compared GM's somewhere (from the Capers press conference today)

Well, there are two separate functions within the organization. I looked at both in terms of the job that was done in terms of the draft, in terms of trades, free agents and the expansion draft. I evaluated the whole situation and felt we made a lot more good decisions than bad decisions. There were some decisions that were made that we’d like to do over again. But I think that will always be the case. When you make a lot of decisions, some of them might not be the best. I also compared our record in terms of draft and performance of players we took in the draft and compared them with other teams in the division and certain other elite teams in the league and we were on par with them. Some of them have done better than we’ve done; some of the clubs have done worse. So we were really about in the middle in that regard. I want us to do even better than we have in the past and I’m committed to seeing that we do that.”

There ya go... middle of the bell curve.

 

[WWJD]

I would have gotten rid of Charlie also and just started with a new GM and coach.

 

[disaacks3]

I guess they already compared GM's somewhere (from the Capers press conference today)

There ya go... middle of the bell curve.

The problem is, that's McNair speaking.... He's simply not qualified to "Grade" a GM (or the players themselves). Yes, it's HIS $$$ and HIS team, but he's not a former player, coach, GM, etc. to be able to speak from any experience.

What you're hearing is Dan Reeves' opinion of our personnel...coming from McNair's mouth. I hope to God that Dan Reeves eval is spot-on, otherwise you can just flush this next draft/off-season down the toilet.

 

[OzzO]

Oh, I agree it's just political correctness talking during the conference (would still like to see an actual comparison of GM's) and it's pretty much a definite Casserly's not gonna use the "I've been in the NFL longer" speech with this organization again....