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Originally Posted by Buehler445
17 dudes that deserve a roster spot (your numbers) in three years at a whopping clip 5.6 players per year is not effective. And very likely at least some of those 17 dudes are in the personnel department. Not solely Herm.
He was right to cut some fat. But you don't have to win 2 mother****ing games to do it.
Herm was awful in every single aspect of his job.
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17 dudes. 10 or so of them excellent football players
-They spent almost no money to do that. In doing so they cleared up $57 million dollars in cap space in 2009. $57M. You do realize that's enough money to buy you 5 more superstars, right?
-They relied almost exclusively on draft picks. 2 out of 3 years they were picking in the 20's
-So you're advocating saving a few wins here and there? They could have started Huard, McIntosh, Surtain, Wesley, Woods. Kept Wiegmann and T-Rich around another year. So winning 6 games with that geriatric cast would make you feel better than winning 2 and in the process not seeing what we had in guys like Pollard, Page, Flowers, Albert, and Carr? Those guys started WAY earlier than most coaches would allow because we committed to a youth movement
In 2009, he had 17 dudes. He had the #3 pick. He had $57M to spend. He set this team up nicely to make a big move in 2009. And sorry, but that shit doesn't happen if you keep applying band-aids. I don't know how that's at all acceptable. Again, his inability to coach is irrelevant. That's not something he left behind after he left. What matters is the state of the roster.