Quote:Joeckel might improve a lot in the future. Certainly there's room for improvement. But the odds are he'll never be much better than Monroe. We had a LT. We traded him for 4th and 5th round picks. We could have gotten a lot more for the #2 pick in the draft had we just traded it for 2014 picks straight up. It was a bad trade, period.

The group was right. Nelson was good as a rookie, stunk his next two seasons, and then appeared to be much improved in the preseason when Gene Smith traded him for a ham sandwich. I thought it was a bad trade at the time and said so. Most here were glad to see him go based on his previous two seasons.