Quote:When it comes to the numbers, the cap, and contracts I would be completely clueless.


However I am fairly certain I'm twice the talent evaluator or drafter that Gene Smith was.


How many draft picks did he make that are still playing in the NFL? I mean one is in the MMA.... He might have the worst drafting track record of GM.


Monroe, Knighton, Miller, Shorts, Blaine, AluAlu, Jennings, Prosinski, Branch, Marshall Anger? Is that it?


Monroe, Knighton, Marshall are starters. That's really it. Complete garbage.

Hindsight.

Also, many people were mad at letting Jennings go, he had some success in NY and OAK.

Gabbert won more games than Colin Kap this year. Shorts starts for Houston opposite Hopkins, when he is on the field, I think.

Prosinski is starting too IIRC.

 

As garbage as they all may be... I think he had a bad habit of drafting guys out of position.

And I also think that he was awful.

 

I'm just sayin... real world talk... no one on here is qualified to be a GM. And therefore no one is really qualified to be TOO critical of the job done, in such a manner to act as if one could do better.

Like you say, it is more than just picking 7 guys every draft.

 

Caldwell is light years from Gene in that he hasn't made any bone headed picks, even if he's had some misses.... yet people want to complain about the job he's done because he didn't turn manure into magic in 3 seasons.

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