Daniel Lee Young
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Spielman has overseen 12 drafts...
“Neglected the offensive line like a red headed stepchild” and “ constanty playing catch-up” are hyperbole, and yet those statements are ingrained “facts” to the one who use that type of hyperbole.
12 drafts, 23 offensive line players
14 wide receivers
18 DB or Safety’s
16 linebackers
Only 5 quarterbacks..
Who needs Quarterbacks in the draft when you can just spend 1/5 of your cap for someone else’s castoffs?
4 in the first 3 rounds. Add Beavers and Clemmings and its 6 in the Top 4 rounds.
17 of 23 picks in Rounds 5, 6 and 7.
So who do you pass on in those twelve drafts to get pro bowl caliber offensive linemen?
Christian Ponder, for sure... others?
Marcus McCauley, Tyrell Johnson, Asher Allen, Chris Cook, Toby Gerhart, Josh Robinson, Scott Crichton, Laquan Treadwell...
A mere four OL picks in the first three rounds over TWELVE years SHOULD have closed the case, but that who's who of draft head-scratchers and busts deep sixes it.
Agreed! Spielman's only had "success" (and that term is used loosely) when drafting o-linemen in the first few rounds. Every player he's picked after the 3rd has been a bust...yet he keeps doing it. The fact that it's been 12 years and he still hasn't figured that out is remarkable.
John Sullivan?
Wasn't the TalkVikes family happy to see Sullivan go?
The talkvikes family is always happy to see players go,.
Hell, name any freaking player in the entire existence of talkvikes any player, no matter how good they were or bad they were , there is always someone doing the happy dance when the “POS” is gone.
That includes me and FAVRey and that coach who shall never be named.
Every coach we have ever had, as long as I have posted with this group, has been vilified and “fired” multiple times by many a lynch mob.
Players hated?
Peterson, Birk, HTAFK, Patterson, McKinney, Stussie, Cunningham, FAVRey, Ponder, whizzinator, Webb, the multi position bust..., Michael Bennett, Robert Smith, Everson Griffen, Randy Moss, ......
The list is endless.
We ALL are guilty.
As much as I disagree with many people over this or that opinion of players or personnel on the roster or off field behaviors, I have little respect for anyone who gives up, quits, has nothing positive to contribute, ever, or makes public or private threats, which I have done also, but unlike some, I have in most cases, tried to mend that fence or bridge.
Make no mistake, I have burnt some bridges to the fn ground and pissed on the ashes and do not give a flying rats ass about it.
I won’t name them, they know who and why they are what they are.
Some people I never, ever read, unless someone quotes a post,
ThenI might say something directly related to said idiots post, and they may take offense and respond, or not, but I never know or care,unless that gets quoted, because, 1. I don’t care .....and 2. I LITERALLY cannot care less about whoever I consider an asshat, or their opinion on ANYTHING.
I know I am on that kind of list as well with some people.
c'est la vie
Fn Spielman has been good and bad, bitch all you want, that’s your right as fans, but none of us, myself included have the chops it takes to be a GM in anything but Fantasy football.
Realistically, we’d all be fired halfway thru our first draft.
< Message edited by Daniel Lee Young -- 1/21/2019 9:12:32 AM >
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