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Credit where credit is due. Polian has a regular slot on Sirius NFL Radio. The guy knows football.
I dunno. I've always thought he was a good talent evaluator. Was there too much crying about aggressive DBs ? Sure. But lots of talent was passing through Indy while he was there.
If this is true and not just the usual PFT clickbaiting, then the Bills would be making a big mistake IMO
Polian is way and I mean WAY past his best before date. They already tried the nostalgia thing with Marv Levy and it didn't work out for the same reason Polian won't.
Thats terrible...but funny!Bucko Kilroy also knows football. He'd be an equally logical hire for the Bills at this stage.
Even if he changes the rules the Bills wont find a QB LOL
Maybe you lapsed into a coma after Antoine Bethea was drafted in 2006. His drafts from 2007 until his firing in 2011 were absolutely horrendous and were the main reason the team was a 2-14 laughingstock after Manning went down.
Did they draft a whole new team in 2012? I seem to recall a few winning teams after 2006, how did that happen?
Not sure what your point is. Patriots had a terrible draft in 2007, yet still went 16-0.
Polian's inept drafting after 2006 didn't eliminate Peyton Manning, Reggie Wayne, Dwight Freeney etc. from the team. It just meant that the team was increasingly reliant on that core, especially Manning. And thanks to the ineptitude of Polian, when Manning went down, the Colts were left with the pathetic Curtis Painter to lead a pathetic supporting cast to a pathetic 2-14 record.
Yet, AFTER POLIAN WAS CANNED they got a FUTURE HOF QB, TRADED FOR VONTAE DAVIS TO IMPROVE THE MESS THAT POLIAN LEFT IN THE COLTS SECONDARY, SIGNED JERRELL FREEMAN FROM THE CFL, AND BROUGHT IN QUALITY TE'S AND WR'S VIA THE DRAFT AND FREE AGENCY AND, the very next year, they went 11-5.
Did they draft a whole new team in 2012? I seem to recall a few winning teams after 2006, how did that happen?
Because the new regime drafted some good players, they spent a bunch of money in FA, and they play in the worst division this side of the NFCS. Not hard to get to 10-11 wins when Jax and Tennessee are gifting you four per year.
And the f**king team went into the tank for the draft pick, you forgot that one.
Eh, sorta. They were a dumpster fire from the outset, then once they realized they had no shot at competing they stopped trying.
That's what happens when a top-heavy team loses its top. When Polian's been whiffing in every draft pick for 4 years, there's no other talent to fall back on.
You seem to be sticking to your guns pretty hard here, so how about this: name Polian's good draft picks after 2006. It was a historically bad stretch of drafting, and if you disagree then you should be able to cite why.
Even the guys who ended up being pretty good from those draft classes (Garçon, Hughes, Wheeler kinda) didn't become good until they left.
I know they didn't have 50 draft picks in 2012, so Polian is probably the greatest GM of all time if he could create that many winning teams, then have all the players suck at the same time, then have teams after him with a lot of his players go right back to 10+ win seasons.
http://espn.go.com/blog/afcsouth/post/_/id/56951/not-rebuilding-just-building-in-indianapolis