(12-01-2020, 07:23 PM)Dimson Wrote:

(12-01-2020, 07:13 PM)jaguarmvp Wrote: Caldwell should never get another job as a GM again. He is a decent scout in the later rounds but can't be trusted to make a pick early in the draft.  

Think about how many 1st and 2nd rounders are no longer on the team with his 8 years here.  It's really bad.

Look at the 1st rounders left on the team. None are close to superstar status.

I argue that Caldwell was worse for this franchise than Gene Smith.   Caldwell had 8 years and outside of 1 kept this team a bottom feeder. I don't even credit him with the playoff run because Coughlin was the man in charge.

No one and I mean no one, is as bad as Gene Smith.

So very this.

Gene Smith was a great scout if you wanted to find someone nobody else was looking at. He was so gunshy about risk of failure that he would always opt for the high floor/low ceiling guy, and too often fell in love with one player and wasted value picking them where our selections were, rather than moving around to fit the pick to the player. What free agents did he bring in? What great trades did he make?

Caldwell's downfall was putting too much weight on holes in the roster, again picking guys who were either bad fits (Chiasson, Joeckel), or reaching for a position, and leaving much more talented players on the board (Bort, 4net). When all is said and done, his two biggest blunders will probably be extending Bort and signing Foles, as both failed to pan out and both smacked us hard in the cap. I don't know whether those were truly his decisions or not, and we may never know.

Recency bias HAS to be in play if you think Dave was worse than Gene. It's comparing apples to octopi.

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