Reggie Bush's real cost
- Thread starter The Confessor
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This is why you haven't seen me crush Ireland on the boards.
Too many people just want to point fingers. Who's "fault" is it really?
To me, Ireland was in the shadow of Bill Parcells the whole time Parcells was here. Parcells was the head shot-caller IMO.
Then you have people complaining about what an awful coach Tony Sparano is...and I agree with that.
So if Parcells is the dude calling the shots, and Tony Sparano is an awful coach who can't develop college talent at the next level, then what exactly is Ireland responsible for?
The picks that Ireland has made that we KNOW are HIS picks and HIS picks alone...seem to be pretty solid.
utahphinsfan
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Agreed. All the bowl cloggers (Pasqualoni, Henning, BP, & the meatball) have been flushed away.
Ireland IMO has not been stellar but neither does he deserve to be lumped in w/ the others.
DevilInPgh
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Gotta do it two years in a row, and he can't start out slowly again. If he does, I don't care how well he picks up in the second half, I'll still consider him to be a bust. Reminds me too much of Adam LaRoche, who could never find his groove until the Pirates were WAY out of contention, until he finally couldn't and was mercifully shipped out of town.
A little payback for Rickey? To the naysayers: You have to give him credit.
The Confessor
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Wait!
What????
You're calling Reggie Bush a bust for us? Are you serious????? Once again, he cost us exactly:
1-Special Teams player (That was and UDFA)
20 spots in the 6th round...and he was a 1000 yard back on a dysfunctional offense, under a 1st year coordinator, a turnstyle at RT and a backup QB, AND the entire unit had no PreSeason to gel.
What exactly should we expect from a 6th round pick????
dlockz
Hall Of Famer
Well wth that logic we can only attribute the last draft to him so the jury is quite still out
dlockz
Hall Of Famer
You have to say it was a great deal but we basically got lucky because NO was going to cut Bush. They basically made the trade to get something for a guy instead of cutting him. Basically it was like our trade of Ted Ginn. It was good for both parties Bush played his best ever as a runningback and NO actually got much better play out of Sproles than they ever got out of Bush
DphinBillkiller
Touchdown
In retrospect it turned out to be a very good deal and Bush exceeded almost everyone's expectations.
dlockz
Hall Of Famer
he exceeded all expectations nobody predicted this kind of success and for good reason up to this point he was a bust in relation to being second overall pick
Oh without question. I'm just saying that this is the reason why I haven't killed Ireland like so many here have. I just think that Ireland has kinda been the odd-man-out in Miami as far as personnel decisions are concerned.
dlockz
Hall Of Famer
I dont agree I think he was quite on board and helped to advise on these decisions but we will never know.
maralieus
Lets get those balls deep!!
Whoa slow down there! Bush is nowhere near the back Ricky was (pre-retirement)
dlockz
Hall Of Famer
hell he wast the back that ricky was a couple of years ago when he ran for a 1000 but he was damn good
The Confessor
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Yeah, sorry. A slight oversight on my part.
He's the best back we have had in decades NOT named Ricky.
Ricky is one of the 10 best RB's I have ever watched play the game, and that list includes Sweetness, Dickerson, Brown, Campbell, Orenthal and of course Sanders...