Being Realistic

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Being Realistic

MalabarJag
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#32

10-13-2014, 08:06 PM

Quote: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.

Bull!

Gene Smith gutted the roster just as much as Caldwell did. He even did it at most of the same positions. Gene did inherit slightly better players than Dave, but the position changes, for what they were worth, were essentially the same. They both even drafted a LT in the 1st round tro replace an existing effective LT.

I hope you're not suggesting that Caldwell has done well just because he's better than Gene Smith. You're not allowed to divide by zero.

I do have hope for the future based on the 2014 draft and especially how Bortles looks. Gene made a terrible mess of his 2nd draft. But the first year rebuild by Caldwell was frighteningly identical to Gene's first year rebuild.

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