(01-23-2021, 06:12 AM)Predator Wrote:

(01-23-2021, 05:26 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: I get it. We were a 1-15 team and we've made a lot of changes. On paper that is good, but we bring in a Head Coach with no NFL coaching experience and despite his success in college, it's not like he turned losing programs around. Florida was 7-5 and #25 in the coaches poll the year before he arrived and Ohio State was 9-3 and #8 in the coaches poll the year before he was hired there. He inherited very talented teams. He essentially walked into good situations in both cases. The NFL is totally different and despite this, he is basically getting total control of the team. I just don't see this as a wise move at all. He promised an elite staff, yet in his first move, he decides to keep an O-Line Coach who is widely considered the worst in the NFL and he's failed to develop either of our highly drafted OT's. We have tons of draft picks and we're essentially handing them to a pair that has one guy with no NFL experience (Meyer) and another who is a terrible drafter who took a Superbowl participant and turned them into a 2-14 team (Baalke). That doesn't instill a lot of confidence to me. 

As far as the players, getting Trevor Lawrence is great and having good, young WR's and a reliable RB is terrific. Eifert and O'Shaughnessy are serviceable, but both are free agents. Oliver sucks and we've been getting very little from the TE position for years. Allen was a very promising edge rusher as a rookie, but reverted terribly and now, I don't know what to think of him. Myles Jack had a great year, but we spent a lot of money on Joe Schobert to sure up our run defense and he was flat out terrible. Now we're stuck with him at least one more season, because he counts $16.6 million in dead cap money. C.J. Henderson did very little in his rookie season, but hopefully he can rebound. Our backup QB was awful and spent most of the time looking like a deer in headlights, so God knows Trevor better stay healthy, because we have nothing behind him. 

Please don't say Meyer can't do any worse than our past Head Coaches. Every time I say things can't get any worse, they do. I think that even saying those words brings a curse. We have enough bad luck as it is.

We just had the worst season in franchise history, the first time we had the worst record in the NFL, and our first #1 pick overall. I think it's pretty safe to say it can't get worse or at least meaningfully worse.