PrimeMinister wrote:Revis is one of the best to ever play his position. That’s a 1st ballot HOFer.
...and not to mention, to reiterate: he was so at a time where passing became the standard. QBs throwing for 3,500-4,000 yards is now an expectation.
PrimeMinister wrote:Revis is one of the best to ever play his position. That’s a 1st ballot HOFer.
Caradoc wrote:Revis will get in. If not for any other reason, everyone will love reading how some idiot team traded a first round pick for the privilege of paying him $16 million a year in the twilight of his career coming off of a serious injury.
I still can't believe how many supposedly knowledgeable fans thought that was a great move.
Cheb wrote:Caradoc wrote:Revis will get in. If not for any other reason, everyone will love reading how some idiot team traded a first round pick for the privilege of paying him $16 million a year in the twilight of his career coming off of a serious injury.
I still can't believe how many supposedly knowledgeable fans thought that was a great move.
I disagreed with the initial move, but trading for Revis in and of itself wasn't a horrible decision. What was horrible is that we threw away a first round selection for a one-year rental. We cut him when we didn't need the cap space. After we cut him, Revis made First team All-Pro, two Pro Bowls, and won a Super Bowl. Then again, we have a disturbing habit of releasing players who go on to great success elsewhere.
But really, this franchise sucks at keeping talent. We let Revis walk for nothing, and he returns to form. We let Michael Bennett walk for nothing, he wins a Superbowl, barely loses another, and makes three straight Pro Bowls. We trade Aqib Talib and LeGarrette Blount to the Patriots in successive seasons for two sacks of magic beans; they combine for four Superbowl wins.
The way we deal with personnel is criminal.
PrimeMinister wrote:Why did we release him? I don’t remember what the reasoning was at the time.
Caradoc wrote:Cheb wrote:
I disagreed with the initial move, but trading for Revis in and of itself wasn't a horrible decision. What was horrible is that we threw away a first round selection for a one-year rental. We cut him when we didn't need the cap space. After we cut him, Revis made First team All-Pro, two Pro Bowls, and won a Super Bowl. Then again, we have a disturbing habit of releasing players who go on to great success elsewhere.
But really, this franchise sucks at keeping talent. We let Revis walk for nothing, and he returns to form. We let Michael Bennett walk for nothing, he wins a Superbowl, barely loses another, and makes three straight Pro Bowls. We trade Aqib Talib and LeGarrette Blount to the Patriots in successive seasons for two sacks of magic beans; they combine for four Superbowl wins.
The way we deal with personnel is criminal.
Yep. Someone should post that in the great Brate thread.
But the move for Revis was idiotic, I was opposed before it as well as after. You don't trade that capital, along with that salary, for a corner. Especially one on the downside of his career. Not to mention the gamble on the injury. Or the myriad other team issues we had then.
Caradoc wrote:PrimeMinister wrote:Why did we release him? I don’t remember what the reasoning was at the time.
money
Mod I wrote:Caradoc wrote:
Yep. Someone should post that in the great Brate thread.
But the move for Revis was idiotic, I was opposed before it as well as after. You don't trade that capital, along with that salary, for a corner. Especially one on the downside of his career. Not to mention the gamble on the injury. Or the myriad other team issues we had then.
I sent John Spytek a warning.
Cheb wrote:Caradoc wrote:Revis will get in. If not for any other reason, everyone will love reading how some idiot team traded a first round pick for the privilege of paying him $16 million a year in the twilight of his career coming off of a serious injury.
I still can't believe how many supposedly knowledgeable fans thought that was a great move.
I disagreed with the initial move, but trading for Revis in and of itself wasn't a horrible decision. What was horrible is that we threw away a first round selection for a one-year rental. We cut him when we didn't need the cap space. After we cut him, Revis made First team All-Pro, two Pro Bowls, and won a Super Bowl. Then again, we have a disturbing habit of releasing players who go on to great success elsewhere.
But really, this franchise sucks at keeping talent. We let Revis walk for nothing, and he returns to form. We let Michael Bennett walk for nothing, he wins a Superbowl, barely loses another, and makes three straight Pro Bowls. We trade Aqib Talib and LeGarrette Blount to the Patriots in successive seasons for two sacks of magic beans; they combine for four Superbowl wins.
The way we deal with personnel is criminal.
Doctor wrote:Cheb wrote:
I disagreed with the initial move, but trading for Revis in and of itself wasn't a horrible decision. What was horrible is that we threw away a first round selection for a one-year rental. We cut him when we didn't need the cap space. After we cut him, Revis made First team All-Pro, two Pro Bowls, and won a Super Bowl. Then again, we have a disturbing habit of releasing players who go on to great success elsewhere.
But really, this franchise sucks at keeping talent. We let Revis walk for nothing, and he returns to form. We let Michael Bennett walk for nothing, he wins a Superbowl, barely loses another, and makes three straight Pro Bowls. We trade Aqib Talib and LeGarrette Blount to the Patriots in successive seasons for two sacks of magic beans; they combine for four Superbowl wins.
The way we deal with personnel is criminal.
Bingo.
Trading for one of the greatest CB in history, while he can still play, is not a bad move. Especially when you had the crater at the position that we did.
I'd like to follow up our personnel decisions with our coaching decisions, they go hand in hand. It seemed like the moment a coach even got close to having a roster that fit his system in place he was gone and we have a completely new system to build for.
MJW wrote:Doctor wrote:Bingo.
Trading for one of the greatest CB in history, while he can still play, is not a bad move. Especially when you had the crater at the position that we did.
I'd like to follow up our personnel decisions with our coaching decisions, they go hand in hand. It seemed like the moment a coach even got close to having a roster that fit his system in place he was gone and we have a completely new system to build for.
This was and remains the most compelling reason for not giving up on Koetter/Monken/Smith after this past season - that they should be given a chance to compete with a roster tailored to what they like to do. It's a reasonable take, though I don't think it'll matter in the end.
I think there's an aside with Lovie: The T2 is dead. Rod Marinelli is running things in Dallas, as we know. I watched a few of their games on replay not long ago and even they don't run it much anymore. There was much more Cover Three. My point is, the league has moved on past the scheme. Lovie didn't seem to want to adapt. It was a problem.
Doctor wrote:MJW wrote:
This was and remains the most compelling reason for not giving up on Koetter/Monken/Smith after this past season - that they should be given a chance to compete with a roster tailored to what they like to do. It's a reasonable take, though I don't think it'll matter in the end.
I think there's an aside with Lovie: The T2 is dead. Rod Marinelli is running things in Dallas, as we know. I watched a few of their games on replay not long ago and even they don't run it much anymore. There was much more Cover Three. My point is, the league has moved on past the scheme. Lovie didn't seem to want to adapt. It was a problem.
Lovie's issue was that the T2 lives and dies based off of a front four pass rush. Lovie thought he had it, I mean look at everything invested into the pass rush- Clayborn, Akeem Spence, Bowers, Michael Johnson, Henry Melton, Larry English... none of it worked. He could have scapegoated Leslie Fraizer, but he refused to and it got him canned. I still think the T2 can work in the NFL, but you need to have such an insanely talented front 4 it's unlikely we'll ever see it again.
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