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Nick Caserio - New GM

TheRealJoker V2 said:
Nick has stated his role with the headset was more a “game management” role. When to challenge, when to call timeout, thoughts on punting vs going for it, kicking FG vs going for it. Every team has these guys assisting on game day. It’s what keeps your team from losing games due to boneheaded game management decisions. Nick was that guy, now i’m assuming they have somebody else doing the same thing.

EX of why every team needs someone like this: The Nathaniel Hackett Broncos tenure.
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As far as I’m aware I believe DC Matt Burke is the one who handles a lot of these duties. As in advising Demeco on very specific situational football.
 
DocBar said:
What has Scruggs shown that would say he's going to be a help? If he was all that, Trader Nick wouldn't consider trading him.
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There is nothing that will change the opinion of the Negative Nancy's, but Scruggs, in 2024, increased his Offense grade, Passblock grade and Runblock grade from his 2023 rookie grades. From:

Offense: 47.5 to 63.0
Passblock: 48.9 to 62.1
Runblock: 50.8 to 63.7

He made this improvement while taking snaps at all three of the IOL positions.

He's only going into his third season. If he continues this rate of improvement, he has the potential to become an integral piece of our OL for the forseeable future.
 
Lucky said:
Not sure why Caserio would want to help a potential Super Bowl contender for a possible Day 3 pick.
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Because you do whatever you can do to help your own franchise? We know these Cs aren’t even that good. Why would we not trade one to add extra draft ammunition?

Because we might face them in the superbowl?

Seems like if you’re going to handcuff yourself to those sets of rules you won’t find yourself any trade partners.
 
TheRealJoker V2 said:
Nick has stated his role with the headset was more a “game management” role. When to challenge, when to call timeout, thoughts on punting vs going for it, kicking FG vs going for it. Every team has these guys assisting on game day. It’s what keeps your team from losing games due to boneheaded game management decisions. Nick was that guy, now i’m assuming they have somebody else doing the same thing.

EX of why every team needs someone like this: The Nathaniel Hackett Broncos tenure.
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Maybe he should have used that time to learn how to evaluate OL talent. Jus sayin.
 
Number19 said:
There is nothing that will change the opinion of the Negative Nancy's, but Scruggs, in 2024, increased his Offense grade, Passblock grade and Runblock grade from his 2023 rookie grades. From:

Offense: 47.5 to 63.0
Passblock: 48.9 to 62.1
Runblock: 50.8 to 63.7

He made this improvement while taking snaps at all three of the IOL positions.

He's only going into his third season. If he continues this rate of improvement, he has the potential to become an integral piece of our OL for the forseeable future.
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As long as they dont put him in a position where he has to think quickly on his feet, you may be right.
 
steelbtexan said:
As long as they dont put him in a position where he has to think quickly on his feet, you may be right.
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"Thinking quickly" comes with experience and repetition. The thing is, you don't give up on young, high, draft choices just when they are showing signs they may be on the verge of becoming "good".

For OLmen, grades in the 80's are elite. Grades in the 70's are quality starters. This coming third year for Scruggs should show us if Caserio hit on this pick. Same for Patterson. I really don't see either of these two not being with the Texans this year.

On the other hand, after this season, if Scruggs doesn't improve to at least the low 70's, it wouldn't be unreasonable for Caserio to consider upgrading, although players grading in the 60's are usually your backups, especially for your playoff teams.
 
Number19 said:
"Thinking quickly" comes with experience and repetition. The thing is, you don't give up on young, high, draft choices just when they are showing signs they may be on the verge of becoming "good".

For OLmen, grades in the 80's are elite. Grades in the 70's are quality starters. This coming third year for Scruggs should show us if Caserio hit on this pick. Same for Patterson. I really don't see either of these two not being with the Texans this year.

On the other hand, after this season, if Scruggs doesn't improve to at least the low 70's, it wouldn't be unreasonable for Caserio to consider upgrading, although players grading in the 60's are usually your backups, especially for your playoff teams.
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If you think he's dumb as a box of rocks, is injury prone and avg at best to begin with you trade him for what you can get before his limited value does down. Hope I'm wrong.
 
steelbtexan said:
If you think he's dumb as a box of rocks, is injury prone and avg at best to begin with you trade him for what you can get before his limited value does down. Hope I'm wrong.
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Who is "you"? If you are referencing Caserio, just say so. But what is there to suggest any of this applies to Caserio? I scrolled up and this originated from nothing but internet chatter from some dude named Jeremy Beadling and has nothing to do with the Texans.

I was responding to a question by DocBar, asking what has Scruggs shown. I inferred from this he was referring to whether Scruggs might be traded, which was the question this Beadling fella posed.

I haven't seen or heard anything to suggest this is even remotely a possibility at this time.

And I've now wasted more time on this than I'm prone to. Over and out.
 
Number19 said:
There is nothing that will change the opinion of the Negative Nancy's, but Scruggs, in 2024, increased his Offense grade, pass block grade and run block grade from his 2023 rookie grades. From:

Offense: 47.5 to 63.0
Pass block: 48.9 to 62.1
Run block: 50.8 to 63.7

He made this improvement while taking snaps at all three of the IOL positions.

He's only going into his third season. If he continues this rate of improvement, he has the potential to become an integral piece of our OL for the foreseeable future.
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Then why would Caserio be looking to trade him? If those are PFF grades, I take them with a grain of salt, though they tend to do better grading NFL players than they do ranking draft prospects.
 
KoolAid Sipper said:
I don't think we've heard from the usual sources that Caserio is looking to trade Juice, at this point it's just the opinion of a guy from Chat Sports.
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Agreed. Juice is a young player on his rookie contract. They have lots of people brought in to compete on the OL. It would not make sense to remove someone slated to compete when he is not cost prohibitive.

Now when camp/preseason starts if he is clearly behind other players then that is an entirely different discussion. But he’s not getting traded in June.
 
Number19 said:
There is nothing that will change the opinion of the Negative Nancy's, but Scruggs, in 2024, increased his Offense grade, Passblock grade and Runblock grade from his 2023 rookie grades. From:

Offense: 47.5 to 63.0
Passblock: 48.9 to 62.1
Runblock: 50.8 to 63.7

He made this improvement while taking snaps at all three of the IOL positions.

He's only going into his third season. If he continues this rate of improvement, he has the potential to become an integral piece of our OL for the forseeable future.
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Yes! Scruggs has gone from horrible to below average! I too am hopeful that if he continues to increase he will be.. JAG. Then in year 2026 his final contract year, he will be an NFL starter... maybe? We can then over pay him as we did Mason and Howard!
 
badboy said:
Yes! Scruggs has gone from horrible to below average! I too am hopeful that if he continues to increase he will be.. JAG. Then in year 2026 his final contract year, he will be an NFL starter... maybe? We can then over pay him as we did Mason and Howard!
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Seth Payne made a good point on one of his previous youtube videos regarding OL. He said that it’s generally accepted when an OL is drafted, “It’s gonna take some time, we gotta be patient and develop them…”

Then when fans watch them play they are eager to replace them (he used Scruggs and Fisher as examples). These guys are going through the expected growing pains at the position. Scruggs issues are compounded by the fact he has started at 3 different positions while also missing time due to injury.

I’d like to see him get through a healthy offseason at one position before I give up on him. Now if he does that and totally flops like Kenyon Green… yes of course it is time to move on. But you lose nothing by having him compete for a spot. Unlike Kenyon last offseason he is not coming into camp as an unquestioned starter. He’s going to have to earn his spot.

I am not even thinking of a second contract at this time. I just want a functioning OL starter. Whether that is from the former 2nd round pick (Juice), the stop gap veteran bandaid (Laken Tomlinson) or even the other former 2nd round pick whose previous team gave up on him (Ed Ingram) I don’t care where this comes from. I just want five guys to fill the role of a solid starting OL when the dust settles from training camp competition.
 
We all understand and agree with your quote by Seth Paine. Having said that, I also expect him after 2 full years on a level one college team plus 2 years in NFL to at least have most of the basics down. As are all of you, I am wishing and hoping his productivity will improve and at $1 million a year he is not expensive. But he has to be held to a high criteria protecting his quarterback.
I have stated and continue to believe that if the OL of this season is only NFL average overall, Stroud will be extremely successful. Hopefully, they will not make me a liar.
 
TheRealJoker V2 said:
Seth Payne made a good point on one of his previous youtube videos regarding OL. He said that it’s generally accepted when an OL is drafted, “It’s gonna take some time, we gotta be patient and develop them…”

Then when fans watch them play they are eager to replace them (he used Scruggs and Fisher as examples). These guys are going through the expected growing pains at the position. Scruggs issues are compounded by the fact he has started at 3 different positions while also missing time due to injury.

I’d like to see him get through a healthy offseason at one position before I give up on him. Now if he does that and totally flops like Kenyon Green… yes of course it is time to move on. But you lose nothing by having him compete for a spot. Unlike Kenyon last offseason he is not coming into camp as an unquestioned starter. He’s going to have to earn his spot.

I am not even thinking of a second contract at this time. I just want a functioning OL starter. Whether that is from the former 2nd round pick (Juice), the stop gap veteran bandaid (Laken Tomlinson) or even the other former 2nd round pick whose previous team gave up on him (Ed Ingram) I don’t care where this comes from. I just want five guys to fill the role of a solid starting OL when the dust settles from training camp competition.
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The last paragraph is what all Texans fans are rooting for.
 
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