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(10-23-2017, 02:56 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: I think the funny thing is we should've drafted DeCastro in the first place.

But yeah, $10 million isn't as much as it sounds like with the cap constantly rising. Sure would be nice to still have Zeitler.

I mean here are the core issues:

• Everyone knew that DeCastro was the best guard in that draft.   We had two shots at him
• We valued Zietler as at least as good as DeCastro - or even better.  Zeitler is a good guard, but DeCastro is significantly better
• We either mis-evaluated Zietler and DeCastro or valued Zietler plus a 4th rounder more -  and most of us know nothings would chosen DeCastro
• We bottom line do not value interior offensive linemen when that has been our biggest liability since Richie Braham was here.   And the fact that we picked him up for a song has helped enable the misconception that as a rule you can get as good an offensive lineman in the later rounds. 
• Now that will be further reinforced because of the disastrous 1st and 2nd round selections of Og and Fisher
• We are more attracted to athletic players than smart ones
• We tend to wait too long to try and re-sign the people we want (or think we can get away with waiting) and it almost always backfires:   Housh, J. Smith, J. Joseph, Whit, Zietler, etc.    We think that things will get better if we just wait - almost never happens.  And the players are almost always offended and end up leaving.
  

I'm not sure what we think we're doing, but we seem to not be on the same page with what players want.  You have to understand what a players wants and thinking are.  We do not seem to do that well.

There is just no way you take the chance of going without Whit and Zeitler this year.