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This is a really good way to look at it. Dude could spot the best first-round pick every time. Even his one bust (Jeff Otah) was actually a fantastic player that just had a terrible injury record after 2008. Otah was a phenomenal rookie. I think he was most weak in free agency. Rarely made big movies and when he did, they rarely panned out (aside from what, Stephen Davis?). Letting Moose go was a terrible mistake after 2004. We maybe win a Super Bowl in 2005 if we just had another guy opposite of Steve.

Gettleman basically wrecked a team that should have been a dynasty solely due to ego. He, among other things: Forced Jordan Gross into retirement after 2013 Cut literally all of our receivers after the 2013 Tagged and then cut Josh Norman, losing him for nothing, solely due to a spat with his agent Cut all of our cornerbacks before the 2016 season We basically destroyed our offensive line, wide receiver corps, and secondary in single seasons. We only got through that because of the core that had been set up in pre-Gettleman drafts. Dude was actual trash as a GM and flamed out in NY for a reason.

I need to actually do a full analysis but I think the issue was more that we'd rarely have top-to-bottom awesome drafts but we'd frequently have drafts where only 2-3 players panned out, but the 1st is a Pro Bowler and the other two solid starters or backups. We rarely had drafts where only 1 player was good, and we never had absolute useless drafts. At the very least we always had one really, really good guy. The worst was probably 2005 where we got Thomas Davis (Hall of Honor-quality player) and Geoff Hangartener. Evan Mathis was good, but only after he left.

It would have to be picked up this offseason.

Most of Hurney's picks weren't actually top-ten. Top-ten picks Julius Peppers (2nd, 2002) Jordan Gross (8th, 2003) Cam Newton (1st, 2011) Luke Kuechly (9th, 2012) Christian McCaffrey (8th, 2016) Derrick Brown (7th, 2020) Not top-ten picks Chris Gamble (31st, 2004) Thomas Davis (14th, 2005) DeAngelo Williams (27th, 2006) Jon Beason (25th, 2007) Jonathan Stewart (13th, 2008) Jeff Otah (19th, 2008) DJ Moore (24th, 2018) Brian Burns (16th, 2019) It's really, really hard to find a franchise with such sustained first-round excellence though. Gettleman and especially Fitterer were absolutely terrible in the 1st

Normal fanbases don't insist 200+ yard rushing games were actually not good

Bryce undeniably has a comeback spirit to him. But the reality is he lacks the physical tools for us to compete. Today's win was on Dowdle, but frankly the only reason this was competitive to begin with was Bryce. We need to move on after this year. He's Jake Delhomme, without the arm.

Obviously the fact every carry wasn't for 52 yards means he's bad

This is nonsense math. Of course if you remove all his good runs he looks less good. I'm sure if I removed his 6 worst runs he'd look better!

That punt is a fireable offense imo

Power run offense worked under Wilkes, it worked under Rivera, it worked under Fox. Tepper just needs to get out of his head and let it happen.

This has to be one of the most cowardly punts of all time.

Big freaking drive!

Rico Dawdle is now only the third player in team history (after DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart) to rush for 200+ in a game. He's 4 or 5 yards off DeAngelo's record.

Huddle Plays Head Coach

Deserved penalty there

Just run the damn ball to the right lol

Bryce was turning the ball over every other play, no defense can overcome that

The defense is playing incredibly well. They should have only 3 points on the board.

What is even going on

That's actually a fantastic throw not gonna lie.

Bryce literally looked scared

Soft zone

17-0 incoming, it's about to be Bryce garbage time don't worry