(09-10-2019, 09:49 AM)D-Money Wrote: The issue is everything else that came with it. He gor Allen Robinson and found Allen Hurns our first 1k WRs since Jimmy and McCardell. They were one of the good points of the team then you let them go and we end up with Lee, Moncrief and Cole who did not produce. If they would have guaranteed ARs contract or gave exactly what the Bears gave, he would have stayed. So that is a poor decision under his watch.
Same thing goes for the team after we make it to the AFC conference game, 1st of all we should have won the game but he allowed the coaches to make the decisions they made, even though we were winning, all we had to do what make a few adjustments. He is not the coach but the coaches that he brought in made us miss out on the main reason most of the players play, to get to the Super Bowl, something we have never done before. These coaches have been doing the same thing last year and from the start of what we can see this year. If you are the GM, you have to make the decision it lies on you, if you allow these people to still be here.
My next issue relates to the last, we had just got got the Conference championship, the FO office being arrogant, would not bring back or work something with Poz causing him to retire. As it stands right now, if we had Poz on the field for depth and leadership it would help and I don't think we have as many discipline issues with the defense, Myles Jack and Telvin may still be here.
Also, no reason to not bring back Marcedes for leadership. The coach staff got big headed and thought they could replace players but did not understand that effect it would cause, basically what we are going thru right now.
Giving Bortles that contract rather making him earn it, knowing that he is always up and down, then just letting him walk.
Giving Foles extra money just to make sure he fills respected.
He has some decent drafts but overall when you look at it. We've only had 1 winning season with him which is looking like a fluke for now. How long does a GM get? He is not making the necessary changes. He allows them to go on for long on before doing something. Even with Bradley, Bradley was a great person and everyone could see but it wasn't bringing in wins. He should have been fired the year before he was.
So its not necessarily him but the issues that everyone sees caused by the staff that he brought in and not addressing the issue but just letting it linger on. He may be decent at finding talent but it seems that is all. Maybe he should just be a scout for the team and not the GM
As for the Allens, he has to get credit for bringing them in. But Robinson had a say in whether or not he was going to stay. He had demand for his services. He wanted to play in a bigger market with more of a home field advantage, with more stability at offensive coordinator and a better QB. Should we have overpaid to keep him here, a year after he blew out his knee? You can make arguments either way. Hurns was in increasing injury risk, and his productivity fell off. He wasn't a factor in Dallas, and if he is still on the Dolphins now, clearly isn't making much difference for them, either.
He brought in the coaches that blew the AFCCG, but he also brought in the coaches that got us there in the first place.
I don't see how you tie Posluszny's retirement to FO arrogance. First, Poz had been in the league some ten years at a very physically demanding position. He knew when he had enough. When he retired, he didn't try to sign elsewhere. He said he couldn't play at a high enough level any more. Furthermore, Caldwell had just drafted Jack in 2016. After Bradley had him languishing n the bench in Jack's rookie year, the team had to get Jack some playing time. Not only was Jack not well suited at SAM, either he was going to continue to languish on the bench on most downs, but if he got playing time in nickel, it was going to be at Poz's expense. Telvin Smith was too athletic and made too many plays to take him out.
I disagreed with the Bortles extension, though I understood the rationale behind it. But when that decision was made, TC was his new superior. In plenty of interviews on the subject, TC was emphatic in his arguments defending the Bortles extension. While Bortles was Caldwell's pick, it's possible (I don't know for sure) that TC was the driving force behind the Bortles extension.
Last year's collapse was unfortunate and ultimately attributable mostly to the injuries along the offensive line. Everything points to that. Not sure what Caldwell could have done to prevent the team being down 4 out of 5 starting OLs and being down to the 4th LT (who was a RT on another team at the start of the season) by season's end.
(09-10-2019, 07:18 PM)jagsfan06 Wrote: We took a chance in hiring what the team believed was a young, up and coming Dave Caldwell as a GM when Shad Kahn purchased the team. In my opinion he has done a below average job. By gutting the team of any semblance of NFL talent he’s given salary cap with more money than virtually any other team in the NFL to spend on available free agents from the rest of the league. His most egregious shortcoming has been his first round draft evaluations. This guy has picked Luke Joekel, Blake Bortles and Dante Fowler Jr. with top 3 overall selections in the draft. Please read the previous sentence again and let that sink in. That means that he was looking at basically the entire pool of draft eligible players and based on his evaluation criteria that they were the best prospects out there. That track record tells me that he just is over his head as a general manager.
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Gutting talent from a 2-14 team?!?
Worst to 1st. Curse Reversed!
