Quote:Instead of drafting a joeckel so he could let monroe go he could drafted any other position we had needs ecerywhere.


In the secondary he choose to release the entire unit we went into the first year with an entire crop of rookie defensive backs hopping they'd all grow together. That's mighty arrogant of Caldwell to assume he can put together and entire secondary in one draft.


Jennings was a serviceable back wouldve been better off with him over gerhart and Robinson the last two years.


No ones saying he didn't need to rebuild the roster what some of us have been saying is the blow it up philosophy never works. It takes to long to build a roster from nothing theres a real possibility we won't be competitive next year that would be year 4 you think he would get a year 5 if that's the case?

He didn't let Monroe go.

 

He drafted Joeckel because there was a strong argument he was the best player on the board at the top of that draft.

 

Drafting Joeckel gave him the flexibility to TRADE Monroe, who wasn't making anyone forget Boselli.  Trading Monroe away helped put us in position to trade up for Robinson and draft Telvin Smith.

 

Regarding the secondary, I don't think Caldwell or anyone argued that draft definitively fixed the secondary in one draft.  Besides, I return to the question I posed earlier.  What guy from that 2-14 team was worth preserving?  Who in that secondary was the indispensable playmaker the team couldn't live without?

 

Yes, Jennings was a decent back.   Nothing great, but decent.

 

But be honest. 

 

Of all of the guys you named, would you rather have any of those guys over Bortles?

 

Because if you assume one or more of those guys would have made the difference in a win or two (an overly ambitious proposition considering the same players led us to 2-14), then we likely would have missed out on Bortles.

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