Quote:It amazes me how so many people don't understand this.

 

Basically I've thought of this team like an expansion team that started last year but didn't get extra draft picks.  That's essentially what this is.

Yup.  They completely ignore just how massively this roster was gutted when Caldwell took over. 

 

Gene Smith didn't rebuild anything.  He made a few fringe changes, but stuck with most of what he inherited from Shack Harris.  Caldwell took this thing down to the foundation, and even a little deeper than that.  This isn't a rebuild.  It's a build from the ground up.  Most here recognized that was going to take time, especially when they've been saying they wanted to do the bulk of their building through the draft.  That takes time.  Even the best GMs don't nail it on every draft pick, so you can figure they're going to hopefully have a 50-60% success rate in order for this approach to be successful in 2-3 years. 

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