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What I would have liked to see from Hickey on Draft Day

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Why not trade prior personnel from the previous regime that we all know are not going to make this team?

Why not trade Egnew/Sims & D.Thomas for a 6th or 7th round pick or even to move up in the draft or for future picks for next years draft.
 
how about a combination of "we all don't know anything of the sort," with "who the heck is giving up draft picks for egnew, sims or thomas?"
 
I think getting rid of Jeff Ireland's mistakes would have been one of Hickey's first priorities for two reasons. First, it establishes the theme that he is not willing to settle for the previous regime's mediocrity. Second, it removes from the coaching staff the burden of attempting to develop players who are clearly not NFL quality.

Why Hickey chose not to do is truly a mystery.
 
I saw progress from Egnew and Sims, and until we see what Thomass does in this camp...too early too dump them.

The value in trade would be worthless anyway.
 
I saw progress from Egnew and Sims, and until we see what Thomass does in this camp...too early too dump them.

The value in trade would be worthless anyway.

Don't want to agree lol but I do.

DT is a competent back up, Egnew showed improvement last year and Sims is only in the second year of his NFL career. Why trade? Philbin gets by on the fact that he is supposed to be a good 'teacher'. Well this is the year for these guys to show the improvement or the teacher gets sacked
 
Egnew will not be on our roster next year. Obviously with the drafting of Lynch he is the odd man out in my opinion. Sims, lynch, clay and gator are going to be the tightends/hbacks in my opinion.
 
You need a buyer to be able to sell players like Daniel Thomas and Michael Egnew. At this point you just take them to camp and let them compete.
 
I think getting rid of Jeff Ireland's mistakes would have been one of Hickey's first priorities for two reasons. First, it establishes the theme that he is not willing to settle for the previous regime's mediocrity. Second, it removes from the coaching staff the burden of attempting to develop players who are clearly not NFL quality.

Why Hickey chose not to do is truly a mystery.
Its no mystery. Why would he can guys and he doesn't know who he's cutting? You'll see him cutting more fat next offseason when he's got a better idea of who the team doesn't need.
 
Egnew will not be on our roster next year. Obviously with the drafting of Lynch he is the odd man out in my opinion. Sims, lynch, clay and gator are going to be the tightends/hbacks in my opinion.

Not really.....Lynch brings competition, and hopefully he will inspire even greater growth grom Egnew and Sims....I don't see him at all as immediately bumping any of our top 3 tight ends off the roster.

Maybe he will through camp take a spot....but not day one, he has to prove that....he is a late round pick.
 
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Takes two teams to make a deal. When a player like Steve Johnson goes for a 4th, I don't see how any team would be willing to give up a pick for DT, or Egnew. Sims maybe, but is it worth giving up on him at this point for a 7th?
 
Why not trade prior personnel from the previous regime that we all know are not going to make this team?

Why not trade Egnew/Sims & D.Thomas for a 6th or 7th round pick or even to move up in the draft or for future picks for next years draft.

your signature says it best...this is not xbox
 
I think getting rid of Jeff Ireland's mistakes would have been one of Hickey's first priorities for two reasons. First, it establishes the theme that he is not willing to settle for the previous regime's mediocrity. Second, it removes from the coaching staff the burden of attempting to develop players who are clearly not NFL quality.

Why Hickey chose not to do is truly a mystery.

a mystery ? really this is what you come up with, armchair gm's like you make me feel bad about the fanbase, WTF do you know about player evaluation that lets you call players "not NFL quality" and Hickey not replacing some of them a "mystery"....unreal
 
you cant trade players no one wants.

people seem to think that if we want to trade a player it just happens. ok, so here we have a [fictitious] olb theotis fuggins. he was a flop 5th round pic out of san quentin community college who has been on the teams bench for 5 years and done.... nothing. so, gm gets on the phone to the [fictitious] san francisco foreskins and says "hey!! we are trading theotis fuggins and want a 2nd round pic", at which point the foreskins say "ok, sure! we'll send the paperwork right away. what position does he play again?].

we do not have talent, draft picks and f/a's to be determined. most of our starters are whatevers and our depth is, well...., not to deep. and everyone knows this. so, NO TRADES on those players!!

if someone, like our good friends the foreskins, actually wants one of these as a practice squad dummy or sled weight, they just wait for them to be released. but unfortunately, our previous regimes have not been good at getting rid of the never gonna be's and churning the roster. hickey appears to be doing the needed house cleaning [liking him better all the time] and some of these ones will hit the street and some lonely sled on some teams practice field will get its weight or tackle dummy.

i am sure hickey probably would LOVE a draft pic for one of those you listed, but, IT AINT HAPPENIN"!!!
 
We aren't that team who can just trade guys for future picks. We aren't rebuilding, we're supposed to be in a building process.
 
A good GM keeps good players and tries to bring in better ones to compete. The fact that we needed 4 starting OL coming into this year just proves how poorly Ireland planned over his many years here the ability to fix the OL with major overhauls every few years. Why sign Wallace when you have no RT or LT that can play. We could have signed 2 pro bowl OL for the price of Wallace.
 
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