Quote: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.

 

Of course not but we're playing 10 degrees of what if's now. I've maintained this rebuild would not have been as painful if we had worked to build the roster and replaced guys where needed rather than blowing it up. You asked who in the secondary was worth retaining, but Lowery and Landry where serviceable and better than Evans or anyone else we've tried to plug into safety the last 3 years.

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