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Originally Posted by SmootSmack
Well in the past, chances were more than likely we wouldn't have re-signed Cooley to a new deal before he tested the market, wouldn't have ensured we had a solid running back by retaining Betts at below market value.
Yeah the Duckett was a failure for us. But we've also invested a lot of late draft picks and solid scouting overall on several solid, young players who shouldn't be dismissed so quickly. Apart from Campbell and Landry-Alexander, Heyer, Doughty, Montgomery, Blades just to name a few.
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SS, I will give you the college scouting department wins, which I wanted to attribute to Louis Riddick but he does PRO scouting. Can we really count a 5th round pick as a solid scouting win, when our Front Office traded the 3rd rounder for Lloyd and the 4th round for Duckett?
Outside of Fletcher, which free agent that we brought in the last couple of years actually performed the way we expected? And I'm basing expectations on salary, unless its just our business model to give everyone $10 million to sign, which to me is still a lot of money. Lloyd, Carter, Randle-El, Arch Deluxe, none of them seem like $10 mil players to me.
How about letting Ryan Clark, Pierce, and Smoot all walk, when $1 million combined would have kept them all here?
I do see improvement, however a lot of that was due to the guy who just retired. We shall see if it continues, I'm a Skins fan so of course I hope it does continue. I'm afraid it will go back to the days of Taylor Jacobs.
Love the tete-a-tete, you do make me think there SS.