Quote:Jesus, how many times must it be said. This isnt a high school or college program, you dont draft a bunch of guys, start them, and hope they mature. You gotta find a way through any means to put a halfway respectable product on the field each year
. People are paying good money to watch these games.


At this point, i wouldnt blame anyone for ending their season ticket ownership. This team still hasnt given the fans the product they deserve.

That's exactly what you do! Then you do the best you can with what you got while building the roster with young studs that you plan to keep for the next 10 years...Or you can try and buy your way into a year of being good like washington (IIRC) did by overpaying hi priced free agents and have it blow up in your face and come right back to where they realized they needed to rebuild their roster which is exactly why Caldwell is doing what he's doing...The one thing Gene Smith did that was correct, which was to say it would be at least a 4 year rebuild, he just couldn't draft the right players

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