terrytate wrote:MJW wrote:
Our failure to do so has doomed this franchise for the last 15 years. That isn't to say we've never TRIED. Raheemenick drafted Roy Miller in the 3rd, then the next year McCoy and Price in the 1st and 2nd, then the neck year Clay and Bowers in the 1st and 2nd. If 4 of those guys work out instead of 1, the last eight years is much different.
Same with the Oline. We lost Joseph and Sears to injury, Penn to indifference and we sign Carl Nicks and lose him to MRSA. The other attempts to add Oline in FA were unmitigated disasters too. The jury is still out on D Smith and Marpet looks like a winner, so we are what, 1-10 or so on getting offensive linemen in the last decade?
I don't think this is coincidence for our continued sucking:
2012: No offensive or defensive linemen selected.
2013: No offensive linemen selected; no defensive linemen selected before the 4th round.
2014: No defensive linemen selected; no offensive linemen selected before the 5th round
2015: Marpet And Donovan Smith
2016: Noah Spence, who hasn't done anything yet, and Caleb Benenoch late
2017: No offensive linemen. No defensive linemen until the 7th round.
That is to say that over the last SIX drafts, we've drafted 2 offensive lineman before the 4th round, and 1 defensive lineman before the 4th round.
And we wonder why we can't run the ball or stop the run or rush the passer? Big ****ing mystery.
And that's why whenever anyone says "Safety" or "Running Back" to me, I get queasy.