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The Real Marty · 10-05-2019, 09:32 AM

(10-05-2019, 09:21 AM)Bullseye Wrote:
(10-05-2019, 09:16 AM)Upper Wrote: I'm not even willing to put Fournette as a "Coughlin pick". I think Caldwell was more than happy to take a guy they hoped could shoulder the load on offense and allow them to hide and hopefully salvage Fournette.

The reason I would list him as a Coughlin pick is because:

1. Fournette fits the historical paradigm of a TC running back. He's always favored the bigger RB, whether James Stewart, Natrone Means, Curtis Enis (Yes...in 1998, he wasnted to trade up for Curtis Enis, but wasn't able to pull off the trade, so he stayed at 9 and took FT instead), FT, Stacey Mack, and Brandon Jacobs.

2. It was his first year there and he likely wanted to put his stamp on the team.

What exactly do you mean by "Coughlin pick?" Do you think these guys say, "I'm taking this one, I'll give you the next one?"

I am pretty sure what happens is, they have long meetings about the direction of the team and how to fill spots with free agents and draft picks. They decide on an overall strategy for team building. They look at available free agents and draft picks. And they fit their free agents and draft picks into this overall strategy. They discuss the possible draft picks endlessly and they probably almost always come to an agreement about what course to take.

There's no way for us to tell whose choice was whose. Because it doesn't work like that.

There's a lot of undeserved negativity floating around on this message board, with people trying to make a case that this guy or that guy should be fired. So they try to figure out a way to blame the "bad picks" on one guy or the other.

It's a universal characteristic that people, especially people posting on football message boards, are guilty of simplistic thinking. They're always trying to boil everything down to some sort of "solution." It's not that simple. And in this case, it's not so simple that you can say one guy was a "Coughlin pick" and another guy was a "Caldwell pick." It just doesn't work that way.