Quote:Hoyer's first slip up and Manziel is in there. They gotta be itching to start him by now. 

Why?  He didn't exactly have a good pre-season.  

 

 

Quote:I'd still contend that Gene Smith was probably a far better scout than anyone on this board.  Doesn't mean he was a good personnel guy.  He felt he needed to show everyone he was the smartest guy in the room, so he'd draft outliers that, had they panned out, would have backed him up.  Didn't happen, and he's gone, but feel free to cling to that if it makes you happy.

 

BTW, isn't it ironic that you accuse me of hijacking this thread, and you bring up Gene Smith?  Hypocrite much?

 

I would certainly hope that he's a better scout than anyone on this board.  Otherwise it's time for the NFL to reevaluate how they hire scouts.  I also doubt that anyone here puts as much time into scouting players as Gene did.  If they did, they might end up doing better than him in that regard too.


And being better than anyone on this board isn't exactly a high standard to hold him to.  


As a GM, Smith was lousy.  A monkey drawing picks out randomly based on evaluations of sports-journalists would do better.  Walterfootball would have done better.  But I repeat myself!  And that's why we're in the position we're in.  There's just not that many Gene picks we want to keep (and the ones we do, are players of lesser impact such as Brian Anger)

 

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