Offseason Tidbits

[HPF Bob]

Pasqualoni is a veteran coach with a deep resume. He's the sort you could picture O'Brien/Crennel bringing in. As a head coach, I wasn't that impressed but we all know great assistants who didn't pan out as head coaches so that's no knock on the guy. He might even be overqualified to be a position coach.

[Nconroe]

here is a writeup on Texans site about our new DL coach, new OL coach, and new assistants http://www.houstontexans.com/news/ar...1-5898faf6a24b

Pasqualoni, new DL coach, was at Chicago last year where they had 39 sacks. He has coached for 40 years.

Devlin is new OL coach has spent last 9 years with NY Jets, first as TE coach and last few as OL coach. He played 7 years in NFL, mostly with Buffalo.

Pleasant transistioned from Texans strength assistant. Looks like he has been with Romeo Crenell fourteen years at Jets, Patriots, and Chiefs.

And I saw a note where Bill O'Brien came in second in Coach of the year voting. Sounds about right. Just need that super elite QB to emerge.

[HPF Bob]

Nestled in this article is a table showing the current cap space of all NFL teams:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/page/...ee-agents-2015

For those who want to cut to the chase, the Texans have $8.4 million in cap space at present. That ranks them 22nd in cap room. Teams in the negative (thus a better chance of poaching their players) are Pittsburgh, Miami, New England, Kansas City, San Francisco, Arizona and New Orleans.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

Nestled in this article is a table showing the current cap space of all NFL teams:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/page/...ee-agents-2015

For those who want to cut to the chase, the Texans have $8.4 million in cap space at present. That ranks them 22nd in cap room. Teams in the negative (thus a better chance of poaching their players) are Pittsburgh, Miami, New England, Kansas City, San Francisco, Arizona and New Orleans.

It's tough to believe we have that little cap space when we had so much dead money this year that is coming off the books. It goes to show the cap issues we had. Hopefully the remainder of our dead weight contracts are cut this offseason or allowed to expire, rather than being extended with consequences pushed to the future.

[HPF Bob]

Another story I read says that we can add another $8.8 million in cap space if we trade Andre Johnson.

[popanot]

The cap is far easier to manage when your team is consistent in drafting productive players, signing good low-cost FAs, and purging veteran and/or non-productive excess. And so far, it's painfully obvious the Texans haven't been good at any of the above (although, last year they did do a great job at signing good, low-cost FAs -- so there's hope). Personally, I want my team at near the max cap figure every year, but doing it wisely using the method above. I'm sure it's tougher than it sounds, but I hope somehow we can get there.

[Nconroe]

I heard cap might go up from 133 to 141 mil so maybe ok. I agree, seems lots of dead money last year I thought would help this year.