Quote:They did the same with Gus after two years in and you could clearly see he couldn't coach worth a damn. Saying oh the roster is garbage he needs more time and every other excuse in the book. Two years later they're on board saying he can't coach when it was really already determined years before.

 

It's different. Gus creates the team direction, scheme, and mentality. He has the ability to change if he wants, but never has.

 

Fowler has to play the scheme as his coaches tell him to. He doesn't have the job title to change on the fly and say "hey maybe we should run a different defense and I should be a Leo". Also, this is his first season. Most DL don't make huge impacts their first year, and yet he has already been pretty good at setting the edge against the run. Yannick has been an exception to rookie DL and even he has inconsistent and poor against the run. 

 

If under a different coach/scheme Fowler is horrible in 2 years, them dump him. But you have to wait. Plus it is not like he was overdrafted, you have to take the chance on those athletic gifts. As good as Amare looked, it would have been crazy to draft him after the prior draft stock in Lee/Robinson.

 

Quote:He wasn't the best player at the third spot that year and you should always take the best player when you're in the position that high in the draft. Need drafting sucks.

 
In the NFL, you HAVE to need draft. You only get 7 draft picks of good talent on cheap deals which is important with the cap. Also, if the best player every season at your pick is at the same position, at some point you have you have start to cutting them because of roster size. Plus, trading in the NFL doesn't net much value because teams know they can wait and you will still need to cut the player.
 
The argument is more that they could have drafted L. Williams, also at DL, who have probably been a sure starter instead of Fowler. But that also means instead of paying Malik this spring, they would have given that to O. Vernon who has underwhelmed. 

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