OK Kris Wilson is the greatest thing since sliced bread... why no I/R for him?
 

Seems like we wasted a valuable roster spot all season.

Any opinions?

Maybe, but who would you have plugged into his spot that would have helped?

He was inactive every week wasn't he? It's not like we took up an active roster spot with him.... instead of him being inactive it would've just been Chris Horn or Scanlon or somebody being inactive on gameday in his place for the entire season.

It was a DV move thinking he would help us down the stretch... right now I say we are doing a very good job of mucking things up for a top 5 draft pick.

Why? The players we have are good enough. Dick said so.

well at least we can see what he brings to the table yet this year

Because our wide receivers didn't start catching balls until week 5. Look at what happened with Dunn when we plugged him in the spot reserved for Wilson, and ran some of the plays that were practiced all summer long. If this season was a repeat of last year and Priest had of carried us this far by himself, and we were still in the playoff picture, and Kris Wilson happened to be a rookie that wouldn't miss being out for injury for 4 months, and didn't need anytime to get into "NFL" shape,,,,,, we would be sitting pretty right now.

Still he was taking up one of our very valuable 53 player spots. As bad as this team is there is no one out there that could not have got valuable experience, what about that offensive lineman we released that ended up playing for Indy?

I agree Jim, IR would have been our best route to take.

In hindsight it's easy to say that, but it made sense to most of us at the time. We were looking at competing for a playoff spot, the team was very high on Wilson, and it seemed like a grand idea to be able to add another weapon to the mix right as we hit the stretch run.

Of course it looks stupid now, but hindsight is always 20/20.

That's just it -- this team didn't consider themselves to be "bad" when that decision was made. We were supposed to be a Superbowl contender.

That lineman, BTW, was Ryan Lilja.

Thanks, yes it was Ryan and IMO we would have been much better off letting him have the roster spot while Wilson legitimately ended up on the IR for the year.

Probably so. But again, we're looking at it from the perspective of KNOWING that we suck. They were looking at it as "how can we make ourselfs better just before the playoffs" when the decision was made.

I suppose the fact that I thought we had blown it in the offseason and did not consider us as a SB contender does not make it hindsight for me. But for many others I guess I can see some merit.

Yeah, you clearly knew better than most of us. Unfortantley, you didn't get to make the decision. :)