The Beginning of the End

[THE PISTONS]

(07-18-2017, 02:59 PM)3wt Wrote: One of the biggest draft day failures was not taking Roaf who literally was throwing the Alabama teammate (Curry) of the DE we took in the draft (Copeland) around like he was a little girl.   Uggghh  I ranted to my uncaring family for hours after that mistake.   Roaf ended up ripping Curry's helmet off and throwing it into the end zone.

I was drooling.   We have gotten better of late drafting, but that was a colossal failure in an era of really bad draft day decisions.

I think it's quite possible that if we drafted some other players during this time that they would have been busts and guys like Klingler might have actually been a decent Pro on a better team.

Klingler came from the run and shoot. Pretty low success rate for those guys in the NFL.

Contrast that to spread offense QB's now who have a higher success rate. Different times.