(12-30-2019, 09:41 AM)Rico Wrote:

(12-30-2019, 09:38 AM)SeldomRite Wrote: Going by record they're practically the same, though it's a very stupid post and shows you have no understanding about NFL GMs. The team now has young talent (Allen, Chark, Minshew, Taylor, and Harrison to name a few players) but after after Gene Smith it definitely didn't, and the team actually made the playoffs at some point during Caldwell's tenure.

Well, not only that but the firsts two years of Caldwell's tenure was spent cleaning out the garbage that Smith left us.  We were basically an expansion team his first two years.

Judging a GM by wins just misses the point, really. GM's are judged by talent accumulated, coaches are judged by wins. All you really need to know about Caldwell and Gene Smith is the team seemed to get worse every year under Smith from a talent perspective, but the team is generally thought of as having some talent to build around now.

Caldwell's biggest problem is he can't evaluate QB talent, but neither could Smith.

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