(11-24-2019, 07:08 PM)EricC85 Wrote: When Caldwell came in and broke this roster back down to expansion level he stacked the deck against himself from the start. Fast forward to today and we are consistently attempting to fill holes that come up faster then we can draft or sign guys. Then factor in the natural misses and it’s never going to work. You can’t hit on every free agent and every draft pick and blowing up a roster leaves you no choice but to hope for perfection.

Caldwell’s arrogance damned this rebuild from the start. Hopefully our next GM keeps some of the serviceable pieces we have in place and builds a roster around any talent we do have.

In the end Caldwell is worse then Shack and Gene, this far removed from a rebuild and we might have one of the worse rosters in franchise history.

This is what Caldwell inherited.  2012 Starting Roster


QB         Blaine Gabbert
WR        Mike Thomas
WR        Cecil Shorts
TE         Marcedes Lewis
LT         Eugene Monroe
C           Brad Meester
RG         Uche Nwaneri
RT          Cameron Bradfield
             
DE         Jeremy Mincey
DT         Tyson Alualu
DT         C.J. Mosley
MLB      Paul Posluszny
LB          Russell Allen
LCB        Aaron Ross
RCB       Derek Cox
SS          Dawan Landry
FS          Dwight Lowery
             
K            Josh Scobee
P            Bryan Anger

The only real move that I questioned was trading Monroe for a 6th round pick.  Otherwise, he got rid of the players that sucked and a few overpaid non-productive players that sucked on their subsequent teams.  He kept the few decent players like Poz and Mercedes Lewis.

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