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Originally Posted by memphisskin
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.
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Are they worth $10 million, no probably not. Though I think El and Carter come pretty close considering the market.
The money debate is a never-ending one, and will probably continue until the day that it really does come back to bite us in the gluteus. Up until now it hasn't really killed us (props to Marty for avoiding disaster back in 2001, but that's another story).
And sometimes the best move is to let people go. And sometimes people just want to go.
Anyhow, I suspect there could be a FO change coming anyway.