Quote:I agree there was overall optimism, but there was still disagreement then (the first offseason), specifically over the wisdom of trading a 2 the next year for Derek Cox.  That disagreement persisted for a while.

 

By this time in Gene Smith's tenure (year 2), the controversy was over Tyson Alualu, whether the team reached for him, whether there was the opportunity to trade down, whether we should have taken Tebow, etc.  Even though many remained optimistic, the chorus against Gene Smith began to grow.

 

TBH I'm not sure if this is optimism based or not.

 

It could be...but there are reasons to think otherwise too.

Shack and Gene were so terribly aweful that it warranted fans posting about it, and the Yeah sayers would argue with them saying everything's fine, it'll all be okay, Byron Leftwich and David Garrard are hall of fame QBs type of stuff... when it was obivious to most people that the team lacked real talent.

 

I think the lack of arguing and debate is from (at least at this point as far as anyone can tell) GM Dave Caldwell doing a great job in personel management.

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