Again, it's easy to sit on the sidelines and make these pronouncements but when you're the guy who's made the following GM pronouncements, I wouldn;'t be too quick to impugn the judgment of anyone else :idk:
a) advocated drafting Brady Quinn, and still defending him as not having had a real chance after losing out to Tebow in Denver,
b) swearing up and down that Cam Wake would never make a successful transition from the CFL
c) championing a trade for a 3rd rounder for Kyle Orton and then giving him a new $8MM contract
d) championing Dante Culpecker as the next franchise hope
e) spending half a season slurping Trent Edwards as the QB we should have selected in the 2nd round in '08 (whose just been released as the Eagles' 3rd string backup)
f) loads more but I'm multi-tasking
LOL, have that "meat suit" handy?
How is that any worse than
1- drafting Jake Long number one overall and not worth keeping
2-drafting Phillip Merling first pick of second round
3-drafting Chad henne in second round
4-drafting shawn murhy 4th round
5-drafting vontae davis 1st round then trading for a second
6- drafting sean smith second round but is not even worth dmitri patterson money to keep
7-drafting Pat white in second round
8-drafting Patrick Turner in 3rd round
9-Trading down with much better talent on board to take very average Jared odrick
10-draftin very average to below average Koa Misi in second
11-Same with John jerry see above
12- drafting AJ Edds in 4th
13-Trading up to draft Danial friggin Thomas in 2nd round
14-drafting edmund gates in 4th
15-drafting Michael Egnew in 3rd
16 trading two second round picks for brandon marshall and making him among the highest paid wr's then two years later trading him for two thirds
17-signing Jake grove to huge money after oakland cut him
18-signing Gibril wilson to big money after he was cut by another team'
19-Signing Ernest Wilford
20- Signing Reggie Torbor
21-overpaying an injury prone Justin Smiley
22- resigning Vernon Carey to be the highest paid RT in game then 2 years later cut him
23-overpaying richard Marshall
24- picking up overpaid Dmitri patterson off waivers after he was cut year one of his overpriced contract
25-signing Artis hicks to 2 million dollar contract
26-signing Chad johnson at all
27-Signing Nanee to be a starter
28-Signing washed up eric Steinback
29-Signing Marc Columbo to be our starting RT
30- signing Lydon Murtha to a second round tender
31- placing second round tender on Phillip merling
32-signing Karlos Dansby to be highest paid MLB in NFL then 3 years later cutting him obviously showing that he wasnt worth the money
33- helped botch Jim Harbaugh pursuit
34- helped Tony Sparano get an extension
35-4 straight losing seasons with him as gm
Im sure the list could go on and on and Im confident I could gm with at the very least the same ineptness that he could
also answers
a)brady quinn no worse draft pick than the Ginn/Beck combo. How many teams has Beck bounced around
b)wake as always still will say that dominating line in cfl which are lesser than top college programs means little to nothing, an anomoly
c)Dont think Orton would have been horrible here but never advocated giving him big money.
d)Culpepper was a very good risk just never recovered from injury much smarter than trading a second for a guy that never was like Feeley.
There were people that praised the trade for Green which worked out just as bad just less draft pick compensation and basically for same money that Culpepper was costing us that year
e)edwards was still a better selection than john beck who was able to start 7 games in his entire career as compared to Edwards 33. Becks career qb rating of 67 makes edwards look pretty good