How has he not learned from his mistakes?
Who had come from a big time program that had won a Super Bowl under Casserly's regime. For those who like to parrot that was Beathard's team, Casserly was solely responsible for drafting 9 of the 11 starters on that SB defense. And when McNair learned that he was getting worked, he fired Casserly. So he made an informed decision, it was a mistake, and he learned from it and corrected the problem. Next?
Again, he made an informed decision, hiring a coach that had experience starting an expansion team, had seen success in Pittsburgh and Carolina, and was very meticulous. Once he saw that Capers' hold on the team was gone, he fired him. Again, he learned from his mistake and corrected it. Next?
This is completely up for interpretation, as many will tell you it was Palmer's playcalling that was trying to open things up and Capers' was to slow things down. However, if you count this as a mistake, then surely you realize that Palmer was the first to go. Again, problem corrected. Moving on ....
This is where you are just flat out wrong. First of all, McNair shouldn't ne making any decisions on draft day, short of evaluating his coaches' decisions and giving a stamp of approval. There might be four or five owners in all of the NFL that are intimately involved on draft day. Regardless, there were no mistakes made on expansion draft day. They made informed decisions that did not work out. They looked at the physical for Willie Roaf, who had failed, and looked at the physical for Boselli, who had been cleared. They chose Boselli (this refutes one of your subsequent assertions, but all in due time). You have no basis for making this claim short of hindsight, and even that is pretty weak when those decisions weren't McNair's (nor should they have been).
They took Boselli and Ryan Young in the expansion draft, based on all available info.
Go back and watch the expansion draft coverage (thanks Swisher!) - even the media makes a statement as to how strong the O-line will be. They drafted Pitts in the 2nd round. They drafted other linemen. They tried to build an O-line. A combination of Casserly's inability to draft solid personnel and Capers' inability to coach them up led to the demise of this team. McNair's only on the hook for that insofar as he
let them do their job. When he saw that they weren't doing their job, he fired them. Hell, not only did he fire them, he brought in a respected consultant, Dan Reeves, a guy with lots of Super Bowl experience, to evaluate things and make sure he was making the
right decision. You are way off base here as well.
Professional schemes?!?! Where do you pull this stuff from? The schemes that Capers came in with were presumably the same ones that had won him many games in Pittsburgh and Carolina. And since when should an owner know anything about "professional schemes"?? I'm in IT and the minute the CEO walks into my office and starts talking about WPA vs. LEAP and which wireless security is better, I might start to buy this one. Top executives in ANY business hire professionals to do their jobs. That is what McNair did and it was far from a mistake.
And when was that, exactly? You could just as easily make a case that the assistants knew what they were doing and Capers did not. Regardless, your entire line of arguments, throughout this thread, has centered on McNair taking over every aspect of the football operations. Here's a news flash for you - McNair's not a football guy and if he ever does take over football operations, you can expect many more 2-14 seasons.
How did he not correct this and learn from his mistake? He brought in Dan Reeves, consulted with other owners around the NFL, and ended up firing Casserly for it. That's pretty much corrected. As far as learning from his mistake - well, he brought in a coach and GM that have worked together in the past, he's limited the scope of the GM, and he has been more involved in football decisions.
You can't have it both ways. Either McNair stays out of the football decisions or he doesn't. He got involved here and decided against Bush. Get over it already. You won't know it's a mistake yet for year and you know what? Even if it is, it's a correction for earlier mistakes.
Trying to make a case that McNair has been a poor owner to this point is not only poor form, it's pointless. He's the owner and that's not changing. To this point, he has made a few mistakes, but mostly, he's made informed decisions that haven't worked out for him because of some of the personnel that he's surrounded himself with. Once those problems became clear, he took steps to remedy them. He's always paid out the money for free agents, he's worked diligently to bring football back to Houston, he worked diligently to ensure the city would have state of the art facilities where players would want to practice and play, and he wants to win.
This is, quite frankly, one of the stupidest arguments I've seen on this board in quite some time, and that's saying a lot.
**note to mods: I did not attack the poster, just his post**
You are in west texas?
