Well, as I said in another post, look at all the Rookies he had to use in the most important positions, and pretty much filled the rest of the team with rookies and 2nd year players. The only unit that people are happy with, for the most part, is the defensive line and imagine that it is pretty much the only unit with any veterans. To this point, pretty much the entire rebuild has been done solely through the draft and the only unit where some money has been committed to get free agents is the defensive line where we got Hood, Bryant and Clemons and Roy Miller 2 years ago, otherwise we haven't used free agency to upgrade any position. When you are expecting rookies to immediately become stars, you will not succeed.

 

How's this for something? I said the only unit that we signed veteran players was the defensive line. Well, consider this. In 2013, we were dead last in sacks with 31. After signing a couple of veterans as stated above, we sky rocketed up to 6th with 45. That right there should show you how important veteran talent can be. We also went from 26th in passing defense to 22nd and from 29th to 27th in rushing defense. So, we improved drastically in getting sacks and slightly in pass and run defense by adding 3 veterans to the defensive line. That is the only unit where we have really tried to upgrade through free agency by acquiring veteran talent and look at the rewards for signing this veteran talent. Again, before judging Bradley for only doing so much with this team, consider just how important veteran players can be. We start a lot, and I mean a lot, of rookies and 2nd year players. Many of these young players have shown really nice potential given time to develop and become veterans themselves.

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