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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
I'll repeat, this is the team Pioli could have rolled with in 2009:
QB - Sanchez (draft at #3)
RB - Charles / Battle / Cox
OL - Albert / Waters / Wade Smith / De la Puenta / Barry Richardson
WR - Bowe / nobody
TE - Gonzalez
DL - Hali / Dorsey / Edwards / Turk
LB - DJ / Pat Thomas / Demorrio Williams
CB - Carr / Flowers
S - Page / Pollard
K - Barth
P - Colquitt
Imaging bring in Haynesworth or Peppers. Vilma and/or Dansby. We had $57M to spend. Are you telling me this isn't the nucleus for a potentially pretty good team, even behind an average QB? That roster above is not a terrible one to inherit. Throw in the #3 pick in every round.
He didn't coach the contender to a playoff win in 2006. As I've said before, he wasn't a good game day coach. But that is total garbage to say he turned a contender into a 2-win team. That contender needed to be blown up. And make no mistake. It needed to be blown up. Not band-aided. Not fixed. It had to be blown up, and it took a bold decision to do it. And it should have saved us 3-5 years of painful rebuilding disguised as mediocrity but Pioli completely fumbled on it
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Yeah. You don't just win with average starters. The rest of the team was a fire fire. Throwing a couple big name players at it doesn't change the fact that 10 or so guys that play significant snaps on offense defense and ST can't play. Go get some FA with your 57 M and you'll still have a team with no depth because Herm was a shit talent evaluator. For every Pollard you have to account for all the no name mother****ers he whiffed on. Just as you are bringing up about Dorsey. It takes more than 25 guys to make a team that's worth a ****. Especially if you're hangin your hat on players of Barry Rochardson caliber as the good guys.
Bottom line is this. If he were a good talent evaluator 3 years is enough time to get enough decent players in there to not stink it up to the tune of 14 losses.