Guys really?  Nelson was awful here.  Not just taking Harvey, but trading significant picks to do it?  Leftwich as a backup elsewhere is really better than Gabbert as a backup elsewhere?  And face it, Lewis is really just ok, sort of like Alualu.  Matt Jones?  Reggie Williams instead of Big Ben?  Obviously Gene was bad, but Shack was far worse when it came to the first round.  What helped Harris was that he had some hits in the second and third rounds, and he had a better starting position what with Stroud and Henderson (and a QB, Garrard) being drafted right before he arrived.

 

My point is that I'm not sure we fully appreciate just how much of a hole Caldwell has had to dig out of in following up well over a decade of sadness.

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