Duke Tobin: Held onto some players too long

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(01-29-2025, 02:56 PM)pally Wrote:

"I think the expectation was keeping those guys together would net, and it didn't. And maybe I needed to influx. Maybe I needed to change more of that going in, but we ran it back with a lot of guys, and it just didn't come together." - Duke Tobin https://t.co/AbsgeTpPfj

— Kelsey Conway (@KelseyLConway) January 29, 2025

  

 

Is that quote missing a not?

The problem was that he let Bates, Reader, Awuzie, Ogunjobi, Bell, Apple all leave and failed to adequately replace them.

They’ve subsequently spent a first round pick (Dax Hill), a third round pick(Jordan Battle) and two FAs (Nick Scott and Geno Stone) to try and replace Bates and Bell; a second (Kris Jenkins) and a third round (McKinley Jackson) picks to try and replace DJ Reader; two second round picks (DJ Turner and CTB) to try and replace Awuzie; $10m on Sheldon Rankins to replace Ogunjobi; a fourth round (Fig Newton) to replace Eli Apple and none of those have worked out yet - albeit some may yet do so.

At the risk of repeating everyone else unless this is buyer’s remorse at extending Pratt the only one they hung onto for too long was Hubbard for whom it was a season too far but given his status it would have been a surprise had they moved on from him this time last year.