Quote:All I see are a lot of "sounds like" and "supposedly" and the kind of stuff that passes for journalism these days.


It hasn't turned out poorly for the Falcons, but it was a risk.


Without any real proof re Caldwell I'm not worried about it. Each team's circumstances and needs are different, so I'll withhold judgment about Caldwell until the end of 2015.

 

He spoke very in-depth about the whole process, which is why a lot of people believed he was very much behind it. I even seem to recall Oesh commenting on it, though I can't find that now. I did find the excerpt of Dave talking about the decision making during the Julio trade:

 

"<i><b>Give us a little insight into the Julio Jones trade</b></i>

<p style="font-family:'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, serif;color:rgb(41,41,41);font-size:16px;">We had a very good franchise quarterback in Matt Ryan, our young quarterback. We had a good receiver in Roddy White and we were really looking for a compliment to him or someone to come in after Roddy is on the tail end of his career in two to three years and take over that number one role. Where our team was at the time, I think we were number one in draft retention, so we had about 27 of our 30 players we drafted on our roster and we just felt like a lot of those picks we were trading we were going to have to draft them to cut them or cut some players on our roster that we liked. It was just a point where we were at with our team. Also, which we'll do here, we'll start scouting not only this year's draft but future drafts. So we kind of looked at the receiver class and some of the other value positions we'd be drafting in the first round last year, whether it be offensive tackle, defensive end and felt like if we were picking in that 20 to 32 range, that it wasn't that big of a gamble to give up that future one for a dynamic player like Julio."

 

http://www.bigcatcountry.com/2013/3/9/40...transcript

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