Quote:Everyone wants to lay the blame for years of futility on a lack of talent. When do the coaches get some of the blame around here? That lack of talent is playing on playoff teams as we speak.

 

Regards.................the Chiefjag

blame for what and blame who... the only person that is still on the coaching staff from the gene smith era is jerry sullivan (as far as i know) and if you want to blame him for developing our wide receiver talent well you've got bats in your bellfry.

 

this year we've seen:

 

general improvement in the team as a whole until the end of the season where we were very much staggered by injury

 

the development of an effective defensive special teams unit (though i think todman and sanders have the potential to bring one back we haven't seen it yet)

gradual improvement on the offensive line throughout the season

 

that's not mentioning the culture enthusiasm and general ethos they seem to have instilled

 

on a personell level we've seen

 

 improvement in branch this year

 improvement in alualu this year

the emergence of mike brown and the quick development of ace sanders

the rapid development of cyprien

 

that's coaching

 

on the side of this being caldwells fault for not bringing in the personnel... well say we brought in alex smith the best fa qb around... you really think he would have had the same season

 

jamaal charles put up

 

693 of his yards receiving and 7 of his touchdowns not to mention what he does in the running game

you really think alex smith would have had the season he had if he has here. I doubt it... we would have committed to an average qb and a few other overpriced free agents which would have increased the quality of the roster and maybe our win total but also eaten into our cap space like a cancer.

 

how many of the high price fa's from last year have had breakout years or made massive impact.. the only one i can think of is reggie bush who has been pretty good on the lions

mike wallace did jack, james harrison did jack... paul kruger meh

some free agents did alright jake long, amendola, daryl smith was a mistake for us in hindsight

 

but really for their price none of them have broken the nfl wide open and been spectacular

 

nor have their been any huge misses for us on our draft... geno wasn't a miss, nor manuel or dion jordan or even matt barkley

 

Lets be honest here 4 players made it on to the afc south (arguably the worst division) team of the year and I cannot complain about that in the slightest... the roster is talent deficient and needs at least on more draft to get through that.

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