This thread makes me feel really sad... I know in hindsight everything looks different, but still not that many failures amongst players taken after our draft position which means our evaluation was a big failure. Its time for bill to own up to draft misses and hit the draft out of the park this year , else we might be looking at possibly few years wallowing in the bottom ala jetes.
Bill also does not seem to be himself with the excuses of cap which were to do with fact that our draft was such a miss for years that you had to use middling veterans to plug the gaps. Now with no Brady, no big name veterans would want to come here at a discount.so no more room to fail in draft.
Maybe this is how every other franchise felt. Unless we get a solid quarterback, we are pretty much done. And we cannot afford more Cyrus jones, jojuan, michel,harry, jordan Richards, Duke Dawson's... Too many whiffs.. unbelievablly bad... Add to the fact that cajuste and froholdt seem to be perennially injured along with Derek rivers who lost 3 seasons to injury, i think they need to rethink draft strategy . Can't redshirt rookies . Better to lose seasons and get the rookies experience than hoping them to become superstars in 4th year and then allow them to sign elsewhere as free agents . Ee got lucky with gronk but too many misses while taking players with injury history. Need to temper down on those risks. Need some fresh intelligent faces in the draft room . Can ee poach from Steelers?
Need to get at least 2 -3 seasons of productivity from first 3 rounders . Its been too many misses and it has to stop...