Quote:Not disagreeing with you necessarily...but what do you mean "what Caldwell is up to seems radically different..."  Can you give your thoughts? Examples?  How you think he's better than other GMs?

 

Thanks!

Sure. Much of it is what he's done with free agency, late rounders and UDFA.

 

Players like Ryan Davis, Allen Hurns, SenDerrick Marks, Roy Miller, Alan Ball, Demetrius McCray, Abry Jones, Bowanko,  Denard Robinson, and Telvin Smith. 

 

You've got cheap free agents playing well above their pay grade - UDFAs contributing in their first and second years -

5th, 6th and 7th rounders looking like quality depth and/or starters.  He's savvy.  

 

The comments he made about each player after selecting them on draft day I found very insightful. He, Gus and Fisch all seem to have a very collective vision and he was very clear about how they see each player potentially fitting into it. 

 

His willingness to talk to the media openly while at times literally laughing at some of their more ridiculous questions or comments. 

 

His confidence level in the Bortles pick.

 

 Him insisting that Denard was a special player.

 

His "not even if he's released." 

 

His idea to move Pasztor to tackle when he struggled at guard. (yeah - oddly enough - that was Dave's idea to try and salvage a Gene acquisition) 

 

All of it just adds up to a different feel.  I think he knows what he's doing and he's got his finger on the pulse of the modern league. 

 

If Joeckel, Cyp, Blake and Allen Robinson turn out like we hope they will -  he'll have really done some great things for this franchise. 

---