How Scouting College Players Has Evolved Under Shanahan

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Originally Posted by GTripp0012

The other thing is I think if you compare the roster in Feburary 2009 to the current one, you'd find them to be pretty similar. The biggest difference is that the Feb. 2009 one had limited depth, aging stars, and a couple of recent first round draft picks. The current one has (in Shanahan's own words) limited depth, a couple of recent first round picks, and no stars. Basically, any better position we are in now relies on the strength of the 2011 free agent class: guys like Cofield, Bowen, Chester, and Wilson. If you like all of those guys, then we almost certainly have a better roster now than in Feb. 2009. If you're taking a wait and see approach on all of those guys, than we're really at the same place we were in Feb. 2009.

It really comes down to how you rate Shanahan's acquisitions to date. If you're like NC_Skins, and pickups from the CFL make you scream "I LOVE THIS GUY" at the top of your metaphorical lungs, then yeah, our roster is better now. If you're thoroughly dumbfounded by most of the personnel moves Shanahan makes (beyond the draft because like I said before, if he can string a second good draft to the 2011 one, we're in good shape depth-wise).

You keep harping about his acquisitions to date, but yet refuse to understand the restricted free agency his first year and the whole lockout the second year. Exactly what FA would you have liked him to grab Vinny style? Nnamdi? Holmes? Yeah, overpaid and did what for their teams? He went after Yanda, Jenkins, and a few others but they chose other teams. Should he have threw the Brinks truck at him? The guys he brought in have been good, and they are young which makes it all the better.

I think Shanahan has done a incredible job with the personnel with him being limited with the market his first two years. You on the other hand believe he should be pulling these phantom players out of his ass to make this a better team. He's getting players in here that fit the system and that have the character he's looking for.

This team got much younger during Shanahan's tenure as compared to being one of the oldest teams that didn't produce mind you.