They Gambled. They Lost. It's That Simple.

[CRA]

I will agree with you on the last part.

Hurney and Fox were always considered "a package deal". They should have been let go as a package too.

I normally wouldn't favor parting with both a head coach and a GM in the same season, but in that case it likely would have been best.

Yeah, I always though the Rivera era had an odd start with Hurney still here. Hey Ron welcome aboard, look at all my overpaid boys I love so much!!!! You let me know who you want to draft at QB and lets roll!

Never felt like a new start really.

[Mr. Scot]

But we can only really judge him on one of those three things. The depth chart has not been an issue because our bad starters have even worse backups. We really do not know how much input he actually has on roster decisions. I really believe that his influence is being overblown. Gettleman strikes me as someone who will listen to everyone's opinion but follows his own instincts in the end. And when it comes to the coaches Rivera definitely is fair game, but considering the love/hate relationship this fanbase has from week to week with everyone its hard to be absolute there either.

 

He started Melvin White over Josh Norman, Silatolu over Norwell and still hasn't made KK Short a full time starter, among other decisions.

 

I think Rivera can definitely be questioned on the depth chart.

 

[fieryprophet]

He started Melvin White over Josh Norman, Silatolu over Norwell and still hasn't made KK Short a full time starter, among other decisions.

 

I think Rivera can definitely be questioned on the depth chart.

 

 

Wasn't he the one who advocated for Norman to get more playing time? And benched White against the Ravens? And we know Norman's well-documented issues; half the board have hoped Norman would get cut at various times.

 

And I wouldn't be surprised at Silatolu getting the nod over a UDFA rookie who did not perform as well at LG as he did at RG.

 

And our d-line rotation makes the "starter" label meaningless. KK has 20 fewer snaps total than Star.

[ThinkAboutIt]

Everyone wants to find effigies to burn and jobs to be lost and players to be cut and rabble, rabble, rabble.

 

It boils down to one very simple reality: the front office (assign blame between coaches and GM as you wish) lacked the fiscal resources to address all areas of need and decided that the offensive line could hold up if necessary. It was a fatal gamble and they lost. There aren't any real schematic answers that fit with the offensive roster we currently have: we lack the offensive line to establish the running game and play action schemes our core philosophy is built around and other, less line-intensive schemes such as a dink-and-dunk WCO are entirely unsuited to the receiving corps we have.

 

So keep in mind between all of your hell-raising that before amputating every limb off the patient one should wonder if their broken ankle might be the cause that keeps them from walking.

 

In other words, winning wasn't a priority and neither was protecting your QB. You wrote all that just to repeat that same point I've been making since I started posting. Everyone criticizing the FO is doing it because of the reasons you think they shouldn't. Bottom line, you win games at the line of scrimmage. Gettleman with all of his talk of "hog mollies" decided not to make the OL a priority. In business, as in politics, as in life, resources will always be limited, so the only thing that matters is your "priorities." Him not thinking the OL was one means he should be getting blasted. 

[Mr. Scot]

Wasn't he the one who advocated for Norman to get more playing time? And benched White against the Ravens? And we know Norman's well-documented issues; half the board have hoped Norman would get cut at various times.

 

And I wouldn't be surprised at Silatolu getting the nod over a UDFA rookie who did not perform as well at LG as he did at RG.

 

And our d-line rotation makes the "starter" label meaningless. KK has 20 fewer snaps total than Star.

 

Norman was in his doghouse most of last year, and probably would have remained there had White not been abused.

 

 

[fieryprophet]

Norman was in his doghouse most of last year, and probably would have remained there had White not been abused.

 

And again, we all know why Norman was in that doghouse. Again, many of us wanted him to never come out of it.

[Mr. Scot]

And again, we all know why Norman was in that doghouse. Again, many of us wanted him to never come out of it.

 

I think we just disagree on this.

 

Would like your opinion

 

[rmoneyg35]

Basically every year 31 teams end up gambling on something and loosing.