(08-31-2017, 06:02 PM)JagFanatic24 Wrote: I think it's amazing how teams are willing to move on from players who can't play but other teams hold out hope trying to catch lightning in a bottle which sets teams back 5 to 7 years.

Kap - gone
Ragland - gone
Alex Smith - gone
Drew Brees - gone
Tomlinson - gone

Now don't get me wrong, sometimes certain situations forces teams to move players. Because it's not like Brees, etc can't play.

But when you hold on to the Leftwichs, Gabberts, and Bortleses of the world, it sets a team back for several years.

Bucky Brooks explained this in one of his Scout's Notebook articles a few months ago. It's the old "one man's trash is another man's treasure" philosophy. Sometimes it works out. In many cases the player was a misfit, which is what happened to Reggie Ragland and Colin Kaepernick. Alex Smith was simply demoted because of Kaepernick became the hot hand in San Francisco. Drew Brees was a free agent coming off major right shoulder surgery after mentoring a top five draft pick. Kapernick was the product of Jim Harbaugh's system and in the end wanted to play somewhere else. So Regland could have a good career with his new team, just like Smith and Brees did, because he was simply not wanted in Buffalo.

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