Quote:Allowing the process to happen doesn't mean someone is endorsing the process. Giving someone the benefit of the doubt to let things pan out or not is hardly a great defense.


I know this is a difficult concept for some of you, but you can't demand they blow it up every year and expect anything to improve. You have to let the process happen in order to come to a conclusion.


Nobody thought Gene Smith was useless when he was promoted. Many actually celebrated that move by Weaver because they were so angry about Shack Harris, who wasn't nearly as bad as the same message board geniuses wanted to portray. He wasn't good, but a lot of his guys were still contributing after he left.


Smith was considered one of the better scouts in the league. Unfortunately, that didn't translate to being the guy making the decisions.

Do you really need to give someone 3 years or more to see what they offer? So, someone has an agenda or is a whiner because they can see trash earlier than 3 years? I remember getting flamed on here for saying Derek Cox, Alualu, Gabbert, and Anger were bad picks. How did that work out? Let me ask you somethinng, in any other job if you're trash, do they give you 3 years?

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