First of all the 2 best players on this team (and really the only 2 on the roster who you could consider to be better than slightly above average) in Long and Wake came from the era when Ireland was "under the thumb" of Parcells, so I'm not sure how that speaks highly of Ireland. But you want me to tell you what Ireland has done wrong since '10? Gladly.
The 2010 draft was a joke. We could have stood pat or traded down less and wound up with Dez Bryant (moron but outrageous talent) and Aaron Hernandez. Instead we came out of that draft with Odrick (serviceable) Misi (blows) and John Jerry (Chris Farley) in the first three rounds. We would have been so much better off with Dez and Hernandez it isn't even funny, we have no one on offense with half of their playmaking ability, and John Jerry was a big fat waste of a pick. We also came out of that draft with Carrol, Edds and Reshad Jones who all suck Terrible draft, but I was happy with Dansby and Marshall in that same off season and you saw how Ireland shipped off possibly his best decision ever for a bag of practice balls.
2011 off season wasn't any better IMO. We traded for Bush which was fine I guess but we could have had Sproles for nothing and Sproles is a more reliable player. In the draft Ireland picked a C 15th overall so he'd better be ****ing good, traded up for DT in the 2nd who sucks, drafted Gates who is already off the team (lol) and picked up Clay who may end up being a nice player but he caught all of 16 passes last year. Everyone needs to relax with Charles Clay. We should have traded down and drafted Torrey Smith in'11, that's who I wanted. Hell we would have been better off taking Smith over Pouncey at 15. Oh, and Ireland also relied on Colombo to be the starting RT last year, which is just beyond pitiful. '11 was a terrible off season and the results damn well represented that on the field!
The 2012 off season was just an unmitigated disaster and to me this was probably Ireland's swan song. I wasn't totally opposed to the idea of trading Marshall, but to only get two thirds is a disgrace. Ireland's best plan to replace Marshall was apparently the Chad Johnson experience which was fun wasn't it? Vontae Davis is a good young corner and was an integral piece of a defense that was really our only hope of winning any games this year, and now he's gone. Another 2nd round pick is nice to have but I don't trust Ireland at all to use it properly. Outside of that, it's pretty hard to judge our draft picks yet, but I was never a Tannehill guy and now thanks to Ireland the kid has no weapons and precious little defensive support.
If we are going to completely blow up and rebuild like this, then we should see what we can get for Long and Dansby, because we now need as many picks as possible and a new GM asap. This team won't be making a playoff run for at least 2-3 years.
..... Legendu Nanee.
