I can't believe FBT and I are switching sides on this one, but drafting Byron wasn't the problem. As he used to point out, Leftwich's stats improved each year he was here and if his body wouldn't have fallen apart, the result might've been different. Shack's desperate attempt to prop him up with "reach" WR's was the problem.

Anything from BCC and Alfie usually is discarded quickly and rightly so. Garrard could've been developed as Brunell's successor and defense drafted subsequently and we'd have been fine. I disagree that he was a "one year wonder" as the OL and receivers fell apart in '08 and '09 and nobody was taking that offense very far from under center. 2010 he looked pretty solid to me and had a Gene Smith roster in a position to clinch the division before breaking his finger early in the Colts game.

I'll go with Soward as it was a deeply sour note in the midst of great success and seemed to be the first warning horn of an oncoming iceberg, although passing on Ben and Rodgers are certainly good answers

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