02-20-2018, 01:41 AM
I have to agree with what most people are saying.
The team (front office and coaching) need to get a lot smarter about how they evaluate, draft, develop, play and re-sign the players.
I don't see how one stellar draft can do the job needed. I'm more of the belief now that the team was just amazingly lucky in picking Geno and Dunlap at the spots they drafted them. Even a broken clock shows the right time twice a day.
Because the team sent Reggie Nelson packing and extended Williams (for more money) and re-signed Iloka instead, we are now lacking at the safety position and here we are hoping they can find a gem in the middle rounds. But we all know that they probably won't address the position until late and whoever they draft will be either inactive or on the practice squad.
Because the team drafted poorly at the OT spot and let Andre go first and Whit the year after that, they're now in a massive hole on both sides of the line. With Ogbuehi, Fisher, Smith and Hart all at the bottom rung of NFL OTs, the team needs two new tackles and preferably two better than average ones. That's a tall job for a team that considers free agency to be the work of the devil. Four low rung backup quality OTs do not equal two starting quality tackles, but somehow Mikey boy seems to think they add up that way or something.
Since the team let Marvin Jones and Sanu go it has failed to find anyone as good as Jones and has suffered through two years of below average WR play overall as a result. We've drafted WRs, but none of them have measured up so far. Marvin Jones will likely be done with his contract in Detroit before this team finally replaces him.
Look at the poor DL drafts the team had when it took Still, Thompson, Hunt and Clarke. None of those guys got a second contract with the team. This left the team having to go DL heavy in last year's draft.
The team continues to ignore how bad Bodine plays most of the time. He does have the occasional decent game, but those are few. Of course, we'll re-sign him for too much money and he'll continue to be a bottom rung C. Could have drafted a better one several times in the last few years and passed on them. We'll pass on better centers in this year's draft too. Just watch.
For the record, Ross didn't miss his rookie season, he just couldn't get it together enough to be active on game day. Ross is to blame and so is the team. The team either mis-evaluated him, didn't develop him right or he had a bad attitude or who knows what. In any case, he was a bad pick at #9 for this team. We could have and should have drafted someone who would have started and improved the team at one position.
The team (front office and coaching) need to get a lot smarter about how they evaluate, draft, develop, play and re-sign the players.
I don't see how one stellar draft can do the job needed. I'm more of the belief now that the team was just amazingly lucky in picking Geno and Dunlap at the spots they drafted them. Even a broken clock shows the right time twice a day.
Because the team sent Reggie Nelson packing and extended Williams (for more money) and re-signed Iloka instead, we are now lacking at the safety position and here we are hoping they can find a gem in the middle rounds. But we all know that they probably won't address the position until late and whoever they draft will be either inactive or on the practice squad.
Because the team drafted poorly at the OT spot and let Andre go first and Whit the year after that, they're now in a massive hole on both sides of the line. With Ogbuehi, Fisher, Smith and Hart all at the bottom rung of NFL OTs, the team needs two new tackles and preferably two better than average ones. That's a tall job for a team that considers free agency to be the work of the devil. Four low rung backup quality OTs do not equal two starting quality tackles, but somehow Mikey boy seems to think they add up that way or something.
Since the team let Marvin Jones and Sanu go it has failed to find anyone as good as Jones and has suffered through two years of below average WR play overall as a result. We've drafted WRs, but none of them have measured up so far. Marvin Jones will likely be done with his contract in Detroit before this team finally replaces him.
Look at the poor DL drafts the team had when it took Still, Thompson, Hunt and Clarke. None of those guys got a second contract with the team. This left the team having to go DL heavy in last year's draft.
The team continues to ignore how bad Bodine plays most of the time. He does have the occasional decent game, but those are few. Of course, we'll re-sign him for too much money and he'll continue to be a bottom rung C. Could have drafted a better one several times in the last few years and passed on them. We'll pass on better centers in this year's draft too. Just watch.
For the record, Ross didn't miss his rookie season, he just couldn't get it together enough to be active on game day. Ross is to blame and so is the team. The team either mis-evaluated him, didn't develop him right or he had a bad attitude or who knows what. In any case, he was a bad pick at #9 for this team. We could have and should have drafted someone who would have started and improved the team at one position.
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