Quote:Gene Smith used to be a respected scout and he EPICALLY failed. Any fan, without even scouting experience, would fail worse than both Smith and Millen by a wide margin.
That said, Gene Smith is the worst GM I've ever seen. Millen comes very close, but drafting Megatron takes him out of the running.
No, any fan without any scouting experience would do better than Gene Smith.
In fact a trained monkey could pick names out of a hat based on Walterfootball's mock drafts... and come out better.
Randomly Selected players from Walt's drafts: (These were randomly selected, and avoid all hindsight, and again it's using Walter freaking football as the scout)
2009:
Round 1 - Michael Crabtree, WR
Round 2 - Max Unger, C
Round 3 - Dannell Ellerbe, LB
Round 4 - Michael Hamlin, SS (funny enough Roy Miller was originally rolled here, but I had to re-roll, because he was taken earlier)
Round 5 - Antonio Appleby, ILB
Round 6 - Kevin Ogletree, WR
Round 7 - Jaime Thomas, OG
2010:
Round 1 - Taylor Mays, S
Round 2 - Damian Williams, WR
Round 3 - Walter McFadden, CB
Round 4 - Ed Wang, OT
Round 5 - Blair White, WR
Round 6 - Vince Oghobaase, DE
Round 7 - Shay Hodge, WR
2011:
Round 1 - Jimmy Smith, CB
Round 2 - Brandon Harris, CB
Round 3 - Kendall Hunter, RB
Round 4 - Jason Pinkston, OT
Round 5 - Ugo Chinasa, DE
Round 6 - Bruce Miller, FB
Round 7 - Alex Linenkohl, C
2012:
Round 1 - David DeCastro, G
Round 2 - Alshon Jeffery, WR
Round 3 - Terrell Manning, LB
Round 4 - George Iloka, S
Round 5 - Tank Carder, LB
Round 6 - Jordan Bernstine, CB
Round 7 - David Gonzales, OT
Some pretty bad picks, but I think it'd still come out better than Gene by a decent amount. I'd take it in any case.
Heck, I'm pretty sure my eight year olds could do a better job than Gene just picking names from people's mock drafts.