(11-08-2017, 11:21 AM)Kane Wrote: LOL

Geez a lou...

I can't for the life of me can't understand how this team can be terrible one minute, good the next, and Caldwell goes from mediocre to genius in the same amount of time Bortles has gone from game manager to 'leet'.

Caldwell deserves some credit for getting a lot of talent on this team. He still deserves as much criticism as praise for his poor decisions in 1. tearing down a roster too far, 2. Hiring Gus Bradley/sticking with Gus Bradley/extending Gus Bradley, 3. Just as many FA misses as hits, imo, 4. Drafting what has accounted to a project QB at 3 overall.
Yes.... praise him for Jalen and Yannick, Jack and Robinson.... but never forget Joker, Ace, Gratz, Yeldon.... we love him for some Jackson and Campbell signings... but he also signed Thomas, Gerhart, Beadles....

He's been about average, some hits and some misses, his home runs seemingly were no duh picks, in Ramsey and Jack falling to the 2nd...
But a lot more credit should be given to the coaching staff... and while you could credit Caldwell for putting (keeping) Maronne in place... one could venture to guess that TC had much more of a hand in that.

The contracts are almost always team friendly... so give Caldwell some credit there... except we brought in a contract guru from the Jets org. a few years back, and he likely is the # cruncher that gets it done.

Let's pump the brakes on genius.
Once upon a time a lot of fans called Gene Smith Genius Smith....

Don't get me wrong... He deserves some credit... but we shouldn't forget how much of a struggle it was to get here. Caldwell had a hand in that as well.
As much good as he's done... Joker was a miss, DFJ is still an unknown but is having a good season in his 2rd year (2nd playing), and Bortles, while playing better, is still just managing the game... and that isn't what you'd expect of 3rd overall selection in his 4th season.

This.

I wouldn't give him credit for Ramsey though, everyone knew Ramsey was gonna be really good, he just fell to us and Caldwell had to take him.

Let's see:

Smoot is a rookie but has done nothing
Yeldon sucks and there were much better RBs available at that moment
AJ Cann is average at best
Joeckel was awful (Ansah was available)
Cyprien was awful
Gratz sucked
Gerhart lol
Beadles was a pretty dumb mistake
Malik Jackson has been ok/good but not worth all the money imo
Julius Thomas was bad
Odrick average
Davon House mediocre
Skuta bad
Cut Forsett
Let Daryl Smith go
Hood, Bryant and Clemons were wasted money
Bradley was bad enough to fire Caldwell but he is still here for some reason

Tom was here for 2017 Draft and FA and it really shows. Funny how suddenly Caldwell makes much better choices

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