eagle13 wrote:ReddManBogieMan wrote:That article is bad IMO, because it is easy to say now who we should have drafted based on our current injury problems. Plus nobody anticipated KGB dropping off the way he did for the DE position.
IMO your wrong right from the start. Its your opinion and your entitled to it BUT people can and DID anticipate issues we face now. Trading Williams and relying on Harrell may not have been an issue for you or TT but many of us DID see that coming. I think it was MajorDad who foresaw KGB's decline. Thats also why many of us wanted a CB who could impact this year. Harris and Woodson are getting old and Harris looked it against Giants. Harris' decline is inevitable. Lee may be good and probably will be in the future but he isn't now. Same with OT. Clifton was having to skip most practices last year already to preserve his knees and how many articles over the past years have talked about the effect of his devasting injury from Sapp years back. None of this is a major surprise. Some in-experienced people say its crystal ball stuff to see things coming in advance. No one who says that has ever been involved in strategic planning for business or military where you always try to anticipate. The age, past injuries and some poor performances have been pretty obvious red flags for our CBs & OT & DL for at least awhile.
So you saw Cullen Jenkins, Al Harris, and Justin Harrell missing major time this year back on draft day? Give me a break already.
It is easy to say the older players will decline in the near future, and that the younger players who haven't stepped up yet are bad picks, just to justify that you can say you were right if a player declines or doesn't impress as a rook.
Give Harrell a chance now that he is back before you are so quick to bury him, and declare him unworthy of filling Corey's role. He is reportedly in the best shape he has been in awhile. So if Harrell and Thompson step-up in the next week, and following the bye-week, will I be able to find you talking about their success. Probably not, because you probably saw that in your crystal ball.
