(03-07-2024, 09:16 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(03-07-2024, 08:55 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I'm just saying, constructing a roster involves choices.  You can't have it all.  I'd rather allocate the money we would have spent on Ridley to the offensive line.

In regards to your answer #1 above, it sounds like you are saying we should give up on our offensive line because we have tried and failed to improve it in the past.  Is that what you're saying?

The issue is the GM.

All the problems with the roster have been by his design. He has botched the Oline, DLine, linebacker situation (drafting Muma and Ventrell Miller?), WR room…. He also is the actual worst GM when it comes to drafting in rounds 4-7. That’s not even a debate. He’s the actual worst GM in the league.

Gimme Caldwell back.

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Some of those late round picks might be a tad early on passing judgement on and the 1st round, even throwing out Lawrence and Walker as #1 overalls, has shown more consistent hits than we saw in the prior 19 years when Coughlin left.  We knocked it out of the park with Ramsey and Josh Allen.  Marcedes was a good pick for where he was picked at the end of the 1st round.  Everything else over that span was either meh or outright busts.  Still early on some of the 1sts under Baalke as well, but Etienne in hindsight appears to have been a good pick for where he was taken.  Harrison appears to be a good pick for where he was taken.  Lloyd maybe not, but I think we'll have a more definitive answer on that midway through this season.

Be careful what you wish for is all.  We might get back to a ratio of 1.5 hits in the 1st round every 10 years and that is a recipe for bottom of the league performance though Lawrence should mask that to some extent.

Even if you just focus on Caldwell, what was he here for? 8 years? 2 good 1st round picks in 8 years? 25% hit rate in the first round? Hard pass. Needs to be more like 75% or better. You have to consistently hit with your 1st round picks. The further into the draft you get, the more crapshootier it gets.

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