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I said drafting a franchise qb without having a competent oline in place was a huge mistake and I was right. I said that the defence changing to a 3-4 was going to be one of the worst mistakes of all time and I was right. I said that forcing fat al to play nose was stupid and lo and behold, I was right again. I said hiring gruden was a mistake, that his keeping haslett was a sign that the guy was friggin clueless, and guess what? I was right again. I said that drafting cousins in the second round was retarded when we had such a need on oline, and I was right yet again, do you see a pattern here?
Its actually tiresome being right all the time, even more so when I really wished I was wrong a couple times. its pissing me off because I dont know how some guy in northern alberta consistently knows more than people who get paid big money to make these decsions, and whats more im not the only one who saw these things, some of you guys agreed with me, (some of you didnt, but im pretty sure you know better now lol)
There is a lot of fault to go around with the entire Rg3 debacle, shamahan mostly for being an abject dickhole and leaving Rg3 in when he clearly shouldnt have gets the lions share but we hired Gruden specifically because he is supposed to be a qb guru, and what exactly did he accomplish besides nothing? I would take a 4 win season if I saw real progress from our O, and if Rg3 started showing some improvement with better protection, but I wont take 7 wins with cousins because the truth is that cousins is junk and a waste of our time to start him, he has no chance at being our qb. and heres the thing, I dont want us drafting a qb next year, frankly I want one more year of improving our oline before we even think about drafting another qb. I want to see some true talent drafted on the defence not mid rounders.
drafting rg3 set us back, but it didnt have to, hell if gruden was a half decent coach he would have made it work somehow. so basically what I want to see next year is a new coach, one who fits with callahan as the Oline coach, one who will put all the pieces in place AND THEN draft a qb. I will take losing if I see a plan, we havent had that, we have had suck and suck with aging or midlevel players, screw that I want to see youth and I want to see upside and improvement, and I dont believe Gruden will give us that, Gruden has been a huge mistake.
Its actually tiresome being right all the time, even more so when I really wished I was wrong a couple times. its pissing me off because I dont know how some guy in northern alberta consistently knows more than people who get paid big money to make these decsions, and whats more im not the only one who saw these things, some of you guys agreed with me, (some of you didnt, but im pretty sure you know better now lol)
There is a lot of fault to go around with the entire Rg3 debacle, shamahan mostly for being an abject dickhole and leaving Rg3 in when he clearly shouldnt have gets the lions share but we hired Gruden specifically because he is supposed to be a qb guru, and what exactly did he accomplish besides nothing? I would take a 4 win season if I saw real progress from our O, and if Rg3 started showing some improvement with better protection, but I wont take 7 wins with cousins because the truth is that cousins is junk and a waste of our time to start him, he has no chance at being our qb. and heres the thing, I dont want us drafting a qb next year, frankly I want one more year of improving our oline before we even think about drafting another qb. I want to see some true talent drafted on the defence not mid rounders.
drafting rg3 set us back, but it didnt have to, hell if gruden was a half decent coach he would have made it work somehow. so basically what I want to see next year is a new coach, one who fits with callahan as the Oline coach, one who will put all the pieces in place AND THEN draft a qb. I will take losing if I see a plan, we havent had that, we have had suck and suck with aging or midlevel players, screw that I want to see youth and I want to see upside and improvement, and I dont believe Gruden will give us that, Gruden has been a huge mistake.
), one of the biggest contributors to 20 years of mostly failure has been having cycled through more head coaches than any other team in the NFL. So forgive me if I'm a little bit skeptical that jettisoning Gruden after just a year to prove he can do the job makes a whole lot of sense. A lot of folks talk about culture, culture, culture - well, you can't build a culture if you keep removing the leadership. What we need to have as fans and an organization is some patience with the latest front office. It's not their fault that we've sucked for 20 years. They need time to figure it out. The only issue I have with your post is that you ignore the improvements that have taken place. I'm not talking about wins obviously, but I'm talking about organizational philosophy related to how we use free agency, keeping and wisely using our draft picks (including to rebuild the line, something that has begun, but which you fail to mention). Yeah - I know - all of these improvements have been forced upon a kicking and screaming Jay Gruden (that's sarcasm btw), but there are obvious, visible improvements in place and I am confident that we'll continue to see this roster get stronger and stronger. And btw - I don't think you were right even in the instances you loudly proclaim you were. Cousins was a great pickup, not only because of the value, but because since we all know drafting a franchise QB is a near total crapshoot no matter who is doing so, we actually have some promise at that position even though our presumed starter has turned about to be somewhat of a disaster. Cousins experienced some painful growth opportunities last season. But lets not pretend he can't play - because he absolutely can. And like Gruden, he's extremely inexperienced so let's not assume we know the end of the novel after the first chapter.
