The drafts the last few years have been better. They've been better since McClueless left. The problems are not the draft. The draft is only one aspect of building a team. Even if Allen has been great at drafting, which I think he's been good not great, that's only the start. Developing the players, getting players through free agency that fit and perform well, hiring coaches who can teach the players and develop them, hiring coaches who can coach well in game, and building an organization that is successful are things he fails at. Not to mention alienating personnel and fans. So discussing the draft and his success or even failures doesn't change anything. He still sucks at his job overall and that's why he needs to be fired.
I guess this isn't a hill I really want to die on, but I don't know how anyone can look at drafts since 2016 and declare them much of anything. '17 looks fair. This year looks like it might be ok.
I'm glad we are actually acquiring draft picks rather trading them all away. I'll give the team that much. I just think we are all still seeing more 'potential' out of our own guys than is necessarily there. Playing half the snaps on a crap team that gets worse every year does not make someone a great draft pick. The Trey Quinns of the world, God bless em, aren't going to win us any trophies.
Anyway, I do agree with the point of this post. The problem isn't really the draft anyway. It's that when we DO hit picks, such as with guys like Preston Smith or Jamison Crowder or Kendall Fuller or possibly Brandon Scherff, we often fail to recognize or maximize their abilities and we show them the door. And then we have to start all over again.
It all comes back to the same thing. We have no consistency in the front office, and that trickles down to everything thing else, which makes sustained success practically impossible. That's what GSF was touching on before I jumped down his throat and I do agree with that.
So back to the point of the thread, I don't know that there is a coach that can manage this situation. Maybe GSF is right. Maybe someone out there has the Secret Sauce to hold the team together with one hand while keeping Snyder at arms' length (but not so far away as to tick him off) with the other. I have no idea who that might be, though.