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Texans withdraw pursuit of Nick Caserio

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Mr.Scarface said: ↑

And you have NO evidence to the contrary, do you? Cal McNair has been in charge, what, 7-8 months?
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The GM was fired and he wasn't. How often does a coach get to work with 3 GMs when they haven't won anything more than a couple division titles in a bad division or with the easiest schedule in the NFL? Yes, after an 11-5 season and another division title t-shirt no one should ever buy. He shouldn't have been given an extension when they did. This was a team that won despite the coach. I realize you're one of his defenders and that's fine. Many of us see things a little differently. I see the 2006-2011 Astros. A team trying to reload when it's clear an entire house cleaning is necessary...though, in this case, it's the football operations side that needs to be cleaned out so that the players get a real chance to win.

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I'm hoping the Texans don't hire a new GM until next year. It's setting up perfectly for a terrible season that can get BOB fired with the harder schedule. It would be best to have the option of bringing in a new coach and GM together next year.
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Or, it's another built in excuse for them to extend O'Brien again. "Well, there wasn't a GM and we really want to give him a chance to work with the new guy."

#161 leroy, Jun 17, 2019

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He wants out of New England

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He wants out of New England
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How do we know this?

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How do we know this?
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Bleacher report

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https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/06/17/report-nick-caserio-wants-out-of-new-england/

#165 Rudyc281, Jun 17, 2019
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The Boston Globe believes Patriots director of player personnel Nick Caserio "wants out" of New England.
Reporter Ben Volin seems to mostly be connecting the obvious dots, which is that the Pats had to invoke a clause in Caserio's contract and file tampering charges to prevent him from interviewing with the Texans. Per Volin, "every sign points to Caserio landing with the Texans next offseason." Caserio's Patriots contract runs through next spring's draft. Ever the iconoclast, Bill Belichick appears perfectly content to force Caserio to "play out" his deal.

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The Boston Globe believes Patriots director of player personnel Nick Caserio "wants out" of New England.
Reporter Ben Volin seems to mostly be connecting the obvious dots, which is that the Pats had to invoke a clause in Caserio's contract and file tampering charges to prevent him from interviewing with the Texans. Per Volin, "every sign points to Caserio landing with the Texans next offseason." Caserio's Patriots contract runs through next spring's draft. Ever the iconoclast, Bill Belichick appears perfectly content to force Caserio to "play out" his deal.
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#FreeCaserio

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The Boston Globe believes Patriots director of player personnel Nick Caserio "wants out" of New England.
Reporter Ben Volin seems to mostly be connecting the obvious dots, which is that the Pats had to invoke a clause in Caserio's contract and file tampering charges to prevent him from interviewing with the Texans. Per Volin, "every sign points to Caserio landing with the Texans next offseason." Caserio's Patriots contract runs through next spring's draft. Ever the iconoclast, Bill Belichick appears perfectly content to force Caserio to "play out" his deal.
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So because a journalist connected dots?

Anymore dots come out recently?

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BREAKING NEWS: Top #Patriots Exec Nick Caserio wants out of New England to be the #Texans GM per @BenVolin of the Boston Globe.

— SportsRadio 610 (@SportsRadio610) June 17, 2019

Report: Caserio 'wants out' of New England https://t.co/wGDIm4EkzX

— Rotoworld Football (@Rotoworld_FB) June 17, 2019

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On Football: The real story in the Patriots’ squabble with the Texans: Nick Caserio wants out https://t.co/aSpGgcHlc1

— Ben Volin (@BenVolin) June 17, 2019

While you were loading up your car to head to the beach last Friday afternoon, the Patriots won their battle with the Texans over Nick Caserio. The Texans backed off their pursuit of New England’s director of player personnel after being "made aware of certain terms in Nick’s contract with the Patriots," the team said in a statement. In turn, the Patriots rescinded their tampering charge against the Texans, and Robert Kraft said, "We appreciate the way [Texans chairman] Cal McNair has handled the situation."

So Caserio will be back this year, and the Patriots’ power structure remains intact. All’s well that ends well, right? Not in this case.

The Patriots may have won this round, but keeping Caserio isn’t the real story here. The real story is this: Nick Caserio wants out of New England. Specifically, he wants that Texans job, even though it was more of a lateral move than a true promotion. And to prevent Caserio from leaving, the Patriots had to enforce a clause in his contract and file tampering charges. Caserio’s deal reportedly runs through the 2020 NFL Draft. To use football terms, the Patriots are making Caserio play out his contract before reaching free agency.

The Patriots’ win keeps Bill Belichick’s right-hand man in Foxborough for another season, but also exposes some tension inside the walls of Gillette Stadium that we thought had simmered since last year. Belichick and Tom Brady seem to have smoothed things over. But there has been a surprising exodus of coaches and scouts over the last two years (especially this year), which raises questions about the working environment in Foxborough. Five coaches left this offseason (not all for promotions). Jack Easterby left. Longtime scout Dujuan Daniels left. Greg Schiano left after a month. And now we see that Caserio wants out, too. If Caserio wanted to stay in New England, he would have just turned down the Texans’ overtures. Instead, the Patriots had to lawyer up to enforce Caserio’s contract.

This marks the second straight year that the Patriots have had to block Caserio from interviewing with the Texans. Last year, they also blocked college scouting director Monti Ossenfort from interviewing for the same job. I have been told he wasn’t too happy about it. The Patriots are well within their rights to force their employees to fulfill their contracts. And I wouldn’t blame them for being upset if Easterby, the Texans’ new vice president of team development, used the Patriots’ June 6 ring ceremony at Kraft’s house to recruit Caserio (former Texans GM Brian Gaine was fired the next day).

But it’s certainly a significant plot twist that Caserio wants out, especially when he seems to have a good thing going in Foxborough. Caserio may not be the top dog in New England, but he is a close No. 2. He gets to negotiate contracts, pick a lot of the players, conduct workouts, help out in practice, talk on the headset during games, and do a million little things that the Patriots don’t tell us about. Caserio has been in New England from the beginning of the dynasty (2001), likely makes several million per year, has raised his family here, and goes to the Super Bowl every year. And as I wrote last week, that Houston job isn’t perfect by any stretch. Certainly there’s an attractive setup with coach Bill O’Brien and Easterby, both former Patriots with whom Caserio has a good relationship. But it looks like a lateral move, as Caserio would still be working with a head coach who has most of the control over the roster. And the Texans brass may not be on the most solid of footing, what with O’Brien’s 1-3 playoff record in five seasons, and Gaine getting fired after 16 months. If Caserio is concerned about job security, there is no better place than New England, where he has lasted 19 years.

Yet Caserio still wants the Houston job. Perhaps it’s simply about money, or the opportunity to grow. Whatever his motivation, this episode says that Caserio believes his time in Foxborough has run its course. The Patriots, if they want, have a year to convince Caserio to stay. He and his old college buddy Josh McDaniels are obvious candidates to replace Belichick, whenever he moves on (though no one I’ve talked to thinks that day is coming soon). Caserio may want out, but money always talks. But every sign points to Caserio landing with the Texans next offseason.

When the Texans fired Gaine, it was done for one reason: to hire Caserio. They interviewed Martin Mayhew and Ray Farmer for the job — two minority candidates who could fulfill the NFL’s Rooney Rule — but since they lost out on Caserio, they have decided to move on without a general manager for the 2019 season. O’Brien, Easterby, and lead contract negotiator Chris Olsen will run the football side. Nothing will stop the Texans from signing Caserio next spring, though, when he becomes a free agent. The only question may be whether the Patriots will enforce Caserio’s contract to the bitter end. Do they really want Caserio running their draft next spring, knowing that he is going to bolt for Houston as soon as the final pick is announced?

I don’t expect this episode to affect Caserio’s professionalism this year, as I don’t believe he would lay down on the job or tank or anything to that effect. But it is interesting, to say the least, to see that Caserio wants out of New England. And despite the appearance of harmony and joy in Foxborough following a sixth Super Bowl championship, perhaps things aren’t as rosy and perfect as they appear.
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BREAKING NEWS: Top #Patriots Exec Nick Caserio wants out of New England to be the #Texans GM per @BenVolin of the Boston Globe.

— SportsRadio 610 (@SportsRadio610) June 17, 2019

Report: Caserio 'wants out' of New England https://t.co/wGDIm4EkzX

— Rotoworld Football (@Rotoworld_FB) June 17, 2019
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Yeah, that's based on Volin's article which is just an opinion/speculation piece.

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.@BenVolin on why tampering chargers were dropped: "It's clear that all three parties (NFL, #Patriots and #Texans) did not want to wage war over this."

— SportsRadio 610 (@SportsRadio610) June 17, 2019

Volin on #Texans GM situation: "If they lose out on Caserio … it'll work out and they'll find someone else. … But I do think it's lining up for them to make a big run for Caserio after this season."

— SportsRadio 610 (@SportsRadio610) June 17, 2019

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#FreeCaserio

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Give them a draft pick and be done with it.

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Give them a draft pick and be done with it.
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Maybe they don't think he's worth a draft pick. I'm not sure I disagree.

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Give them a draft pick and be done with it.
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Mcclain mentioned they wanted a 1st rounder. Texans rightfully balked and said no thanks.

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Mcclain mentioned they wanted a 1st rounder. Texans rightfully balked and said no thanks.
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Look at the guy's face. Would you trade a 1st rounder for him?

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Maybe they don't think he's worth a draft pick. I'm not sure I disagree.
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they might get whatever out of him since his contract expires next year

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Mcclain mentioned they wanted a 1st rounder. Texans rightfully balked and said no thanks.
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Didn't he say it was a first just to interview?

#179 Mr. Clutch, Jun 17, 2019
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Look at the guy's face. Would you trade a 1st rounder for him?

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He looks like Frankenstein. But I don't care if he's a good GM.

Give them a fifth and call it a day. If you want him, go get him. This whole act of pussyfooting around is stupid and weak. You fired Gaine to get him, that much is obvious. Get him then.

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