Rewind a few months...

[Jeremy Igo]

Knowing what we know now, should Hurney have extended Shaq and Tre?

[Mr. Scot]

I think I can guess what a lot of the responses will be.

[mrcompletely11]

10 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Knowing what we know now, should Hurney have extended Shaq and Tre?

what about cmac?

[LinvilleGorge]

No and no. I was always on the Bradberry > Shaq train.

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

We always knew Tre was garbage but it's shocking just how much Luke covered up Shaq's deficiencies.

 

[Baskinridge]

Lol knowing what we know now

[CLG]

3 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

No and no. I was always on the Bradberry > Shaq train.

Same. 

[jfra78]

I was more against extending CMC

[Waldo]

We knew it at the time, hell no.

Don't sign a player to another deal when they haven't earned it. Shaq's was based on projection and not production and Boston is worth a one year deal because he is a hole filler and not a long-term contributor (hence why he hasn't had a multiyear deal until this one since he left on his first contract). 

Bad teams make bad decisions and that is what all of this is. 

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

Also, I'm calling it now: CMC contract gonna look bad in a few years. RBs never last long and we have a tendency to drive players to the dirt.

 

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, Waldo said:

We knew it at the time, hell no.

Don't sign a player to another deal when they haven't earned it. Shaq's was based on projection and not production and Boston is worth a one year deal because he is a hole filler and not a long-term contributor (hence why he hasn't had a multiyear deal until this one since he left on his first contract). 

Bad teams make bad decisions and that is what all of this is. 

Yep, Shaq was signed to be the player we always hoped he would become not for the player has had so far proven to be. At least it's a decently structured deal that we can bail on after two seasons, granted Hurney isn't around to inevitably restructure it when he should he cutting bait 

[FakePlasticTrees]

No. I also think the McCaffrey contract was a mistake. However, if viewed from the standpoint of Hurney these moves made sense.I believe Hurney is in the last  year of his contract. He desperately wants to show improvement upon which a new contract could be justified. Therefore, in a sense, these mistakes rest on Tepper's shoulders. After all, he implicitly approved of this situation and was probably involved explicitly in many of these decisions.

I confess to being very disappointed. I really hoped that Tepper would engender more data driven decisions. I really do not think data was driving these decisions. Many of these decisions seemed driven by public relations and/or desperation.

[kungfoodude]

10 minutes ago, Sean Payton's Vicodin said:

Also, I'm calling it now: CMC contract gonna look bad in a few years. RBs never last long and we have a tendency to drive players to the dirt.

 

Plenty of people said that at the time too(I was one). In hindsight, they did actually have the length about right for a player like CMC. If injuries start robbing significant time(which they have now), then it will obviously look much, much worse.

[BPF]

31 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Knowing what we know now, should Hurney have 

anything aside from slinging meatballs from his own food truck after leaving the panthers is a no from me.