I've defended Nick Caserio a lot on here, and in general, I think he has done a good job. HOWEVER, the way that the offensive line has been handled from a personnel perspective has been atrocious and I can't defend it at all. I don't disagree with trading Tunsil. However, the personnel moves made afterwards are remarkably bad. Going into a season depending on Laken Tomlinson and Jake Andrews is bonkers. We seem to have wasted high draft picks on Kenyon Green, Juice Scruggs and Blake Fisher. And, I like Ersery and want him to succeed, but expecting a second round pick who most scouts saw as a right tackle to come in right away and start at left tackle was a recipe for failure, especially considering our inability to develop offensive linemen.
We'll probably never know the answer, but I sure would like to know how much Caserio had to do with the Nick Caley hire. I was originally okay with it because I thought he would run a McVay-like Rams offense. Nope, this is just more and more of the Patriot way, which nobody from New England seems to understand that it doesn't work unless Tom Brady is running it. It's mind boggling to me that you fire one of the worst offensive line coaches in the country and promote his assistant coach? What do you expect to happen?
This season is over. You won't catch the Colts, and barring a massive change of direction, you aren't going to make the playoffs either. The offense is as bad as anything I can remember seeing in the NFL.
I don't know where to go just yet. For all of you who want to fire everybody, I don't think that is right either. I think Caserio has done enough good that he gets another season, but it needs to be clear that improving the offensive line is far and away the most important task this season. If the offensive line looks anything next year as it looks this season, he can take his vest somewhere else.
I don't think firing DeMeco is the solution just yet either, but he has to get the offense right.
Now, they should have left Caley on the tarmac in Seattle. He sucks. He needs to show this season that he knows how to run an offense. This will be hard to do with this line, but if we look this hopeless all year, I don't think you have a choice. It might be time for Jerrod to get a try. He can't do any worse, I don't think. I'm not a fan of Mike McDaniel (weird guy), but he has had success an OC. There has to be someone out there with a track record of running an offense that they can bring in.
The worst part to me is that they are turning CJ Stroud into David Carr. As a rookie, Stroud looked like the next great NFL QB. But since then, he has been beat up so much, that his level of play is declining. If they can't figure out how to protect him and at least have a somewhat functional run game, he will end up being a shadow of the player he could have been.
