Originally posted by Snakester
First let's talk about David Boston, Martay Jenkins and Frank Sanders. Not tagging Boston was the dumbest move in all of sports this year. One of the top five receivers in the league was let go and we got nothing for him. Jenkins was not offered enough money and got mad and left just to spite us. After we had lost those two we didn't make much of an effort to keep Sanders. Now we have a huge whole at WR and so far it looks like we are replacing it with draft picks, which is stupid because it takes at least a couple of years for receivers to make an impact and we didn't get that great of receivers in the draft to begin with.
Passrush. With more money than any other team Graves did not get us a pass rusher in free agency. When it came time for the draft Terrell Suggs was there at #6 and the idiot Graves trades down to get Calvin Pace who will never turn out to be squat and should have been in the second if not third round and a possession receiver that we wouldn't have taken in the first place if he had not let Boston go. This teams greatest weekness has still not been addressed and without a passrush again this year just how many freakin games do you think we are gonna win.
FREE AGENCY We get a running back on his last legs for almost four million dollars a freakin year when nobody else would have givin him half that. And we already had Marcel Shipp, and Thomas Jones to back him up. Don't you think that was a little bit of a reach at best. We let our starting center go and replace him with a guy that is only backup material in Frank Garcia. With all of the impact players that were there in free agency to get we got none. We did get an ok safety and a good fullback with all that money. We let Jake Plummer go and got the great and almighty Jeff (You have got to be kidding) Blake. And we did sign all powerful and knowing Cameron Spikes. So you tell me what Graves has done that is so great huh because I just don't see it.
We get ripped by everyone for TAGGING guyz because all it does is piss the players off and makes them wanna leave MORE! We finally do somthing that should make the player happier with us, and everyone is pissed thats a double standard...
There is no stopping DB from leaving, if he wanted out. If we tagged him he would of left the next year... With all his Off the field problems you have no idea if we could of traded him.
Jenkins is a joke, he is not a good WR, and had an over inflated self immage! The only thing we lose is how good he was as our gunner... But for 3 mill per season? no thx!
Sanders, was OK... But thats all. I wont miss him at all...
It's obviouse you dont know much about the WR's we got, everyone is VERY high on them. If those are the guys that Sully wanted then I am guessing that he knows a thing or two about WR's...
Here you go with your VandenSUCK blurbs, before you even see the guy play... Pace has HUGE upside, he may have been alittle bit of a reach, but he is exactly what Coach Mac wants in his players...
If you dont remember we tried very hard to upgrade our Pass rush in free agentcy! Graves went after every guy we wanted him to and hard... I dont ever remember a year we went after top guys like that!
It is alot easier to sit there and whine and cry about not getting the guys YOU wanted... But it is alot more rewarding to stick by your team and trust what they do...