Who isn't thrown under the bus in this story?

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(07-16-2017, 12:47 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Seems like mike deferred to Shula on the klingler pick and seemed to override Coslet on the smith choice.  

I remember reading that coslet wanted to roll with blake which may be the reason mike was in desperation mode for a qb.

That's how I see it too.  An irony really.  With the Klingler pick we already had a league MVP QB in his prime (Esiason) so the need for a QB was just not that acute.  But MB was always a sucker for big names in the game, so he went ahead and listened to Shula.  A really stupid decision that alienated the really good QB we had and we lost him a year later.

I believe the Akili Smith thing was all MB.  Given what Coslet said that would be the logical assumption.

I know that it's easier to be an arm chair general manager after the fact, but no one in the city wanted Smith at the time.  All of us wanted the New Orleans trade package.