Ryans only played in 6 games this year before ending up on IR.

No offense, but I don't think you know anything about DeMeco Ryans, which is evident by posting stats from this season only, when you weren't even aware he was out five games ago.

How about his rookie season, when he had 155 tackles?

Obviously not. I just dont have the time to study other teams. I never said Ryans wasnt any good, I just would not take him over Hali.

Hali was a good pick. Why all the hate?

Gholston

Very old thread.

Coaching. Obviously.

See...this is why pruning old posts would suck.

Nothing to see here... move along ... move along.

Hell, Mecca said if he was hired as GM his first move would be to CUT Hali.\And dude has completely disappeared since we turned it around. If we 2-9 he'd be here telling us what a shitty coach, GM, QB, we have.

If you read my initial comments on draft day 2006, I expected Hali to be a Pro Bowl defense player.

That has not happened.

Hali played well his rookie season, then followed those up with average seasons. Last year while learning a new position, his level of play began to ascend. This year, his fifth year in the league, has been his best season to date. Maybe not statistically, but most certainly it's been his most effective season.

Has he lived up to his first round selection?

People who drag up old threads for no reason like this should be banned from posting for the length of time between the last post in that thread and the person's post who dug it up.

BS. People who constantly bash others, and call them idiots for their opinions should be held accountable for their brilliance.

And what about those of us who are correct?

:D

Actually, I thought Hali would have been a better player throughout his five year career than he's been. Does that mean I get a cookie?

:shake:

I have zero problem with anyone's opinion, but if people are getting ridiculed for theirs, then we should have accessible records like this to hold them accountable.
For the record, I was dead wrong about Hali. After seeing him, get owned repeatedly in the season that we set low bar for sacks in a season, I said that Hali would never be a legit threat, and that his only place he would be effective is coming off the left end. Everybody gets some right, and some wrong. No one is ever right or wrong all the time, and nobody knows what a players future will look like. GMs, and want to be GMs alike can only speculate off of the body of work that they have to go on, that's why it pisses me off so much to see the know it alls raking people across the coals for their opinions. It just makes them look stupid in the long run. It's not their opinions of the players, right or wrong that makes them look that way, it's the fact that they are too stupid to know that a fifth round pick may end up looking like a 1st, and a first may be out of the league in a few years. Even the best drafting teams have picks that you look back on, and say WTF were they thinking?

I mean, who would have ever thought that Matt Cassel would be making Mark Sanchez look like a chump right now?