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Chris Chambers
Marty Booker
Vernon Carey
Rex Hadnot
Jeno James
Randy McMichael
Wes Welker

You guys want to tell me that Wanny and Spielman did not draft or sign any good players...They made some mistakes but we have 6 starters and very solid players for years to come from the Wanny era..

Was Spielman a bad talent evaluator?
 
BenchFiedler said:
Was Spielman a bad talent evaluator?
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In my opinion, yes. In fact, the best guys you mentioned there are Chris Chambers and Randy McMichael and Dave Wannstedt drafted them. Spielman wasn't the GM in 2001 and 2002. So does that make Wannstedt a good talent evaluator? No. As the old saying goes, "Even a broken clock is right twice a day", so was the prowess of Spielman and Wannstedt as talent evaluators.

Spielman will forever be judged (and justifiably so) by his horrific trade when he sent our 2nd round pick to Philadelphia for A.J. Feeley. It was ludicrous at the time and I see it now as a tragedy. Insiders laughed at Miami's front office when they made the trade. To show how little other front offices thought of Spielman, Minnesota came up with a fake story about the Patriots wanting to draft Vernon Carey and got a 4th round pick from us to move up one spot. Spielman was a poor evaluator of talent, and judging by his comments about Patriots backup QB Matt Cassell (he raved about him calling everything but the next Brett Favre), nothing has changed. What do the Patriots think about Cassell? They are terrified if anything would ever happen to Tom Brady because he has been awful when he had to play this preseason. With all the trash talking Vikings coach Brad Childress did about Daunte Culpepper, I am glad that he has someone like Rick Spielman to continue that rich tradition of incompetence in Minnesota.
 
BenchFiedler said:
My thread is about offensive starters ..Thanx...
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Well, unfortunately, a football team is not entirely offense. There is not a SINGLE starter on defense from aquisitions during the Speilman era. Only four of those offensive starters were drafted by them anyhow, and it's truly sad considering Wanny was in charge for FIVE seasons. That's five drafts and only four starters to come from them.

While they have definitely hit on some offensive choices, they have MOST definitely had their misses. A second rounder for A.J. Feeley?!?! A third rounder for Lamar Gordon!?!? David Boston?
 
BenchFiedler said:
Chris Chambers
Marty Booker
Vernon Carey
Rex Hadnot
Jeno James
Randy McMichael
Wes Welker

You guys want to tell me that Wanny and Spielman did not draft or sign any good players...They made some mistakes but we have 6 starters and very solid players for years to come from the Wanny era..

Was Spielman a bad talent evaluator?
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So you're championing the cause of the misunderstood genius of the Wanny admin?

Comical....

Even blindfolded someone will eventually hit on a bullseye once in a while.
 
BenchFiedler said:
Chris Chambers
Marty Booker
Vernon Carey
Rex Hadnot
Jeno James
Randy McMichael
Wes Welker

You guys want to tell me that Wanny and Spielman did not draft or sign any good players...They made some mistakes but we have 6 starters and very solid players for years to come from the Wanny era..

Was Spielman a bad talent evaluator?
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welker is not a starter and vernon carey has not been worth a 1st AND a 4th.
also marty booker is no where near as good as ogun
 
No matter what else they did I can never defend them because they decided it would be a great idea to draft Eddie The Pillow Moore instead of Anquan Boldin.
 
Swantoon said:
No matter what else they did I can never defend them because they decided it would be a great idea to draft Eddie The Pillow Moore instead of Anquan Boldin.
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One of the greatest blunders in recent history.
 
6 players don't make up a team my man. You need 22 starters and 53 solid players. Sure he hit a few times, but every blind squirrel finds a nut. (Or something like that haha.)

Think of the lineup we could have had had Speilman not had all those misses.

Drew Brees (instead of Jamar Fletcher)
Anquan Boldin (instead of Eddie Moore)
Chris Chambers
Marty Booker
Randy McMichael
2nd round pick (Had we not traded for the illustraious AJ Feely)

You really can't make a case that says Rick Speilman was successful in Miami. Valient effort, but you are trying to tackle an issue that is undoable.
 
unifiedtheory said:
Is this thread defending Wannstedt?:sidelol:
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I think the thread starter is AJ Feely. Think about it, he thinks Speilman is a smart man because he gave up a second for him. The other big clue, his screen name. He wanted to be the starter so he is campaining for the Bench Feidler committee.
 
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