Why Caldwell is already better:

 

-  Marks , W. Blackmon and Alan Ball are playing better than most expected and were all signed relatively cheap.  

 

- A few of the other waiver wire guys are showing up on special teams pretty often too. 

 

-  Of the draft picks -  Joeckel, McCray, Gratz, Cyprien, Evans, and Sanders have shown signs that they are worthy of an NFL future.  The jury is still out - but there are positive signs from these guys.  

 

Try and pick a past year in which this organization landed 3 productive free agents so affordably and had six draft picks showing early promise.... 

 

The Monroe trade seemed like it produced a meager return initially, but there are a number of contributing factors and much that we just don't know. (a few people speculating on a message about how they think the trade process went down doesn't make that speculation accurate) 

 

Caldwell has my attention.  The team is poised for a big offseason with 10 picks and plenty of cap-space.  We'll know a lot more next year at this juncture.  Can't really evaluate him yet, but so far so good in my book. 

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