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Originally Posted by BossChief
Try to pay attention. You used to be quite good at that until you, admittedly, put the rose colored glasses back on.
I still LOVE the Reid hire...the moves I disagree with are:
1) trading so much for Alex Smith (I'm on record before the trade saying Id be ok with a MAX of a third rounder for him)
2) signing Dante Robinson
3) Drafting Eric Fisher at 1 when that move doesn't significantly upgrade the team like a top overall pick NEEDS to.
I'm fine with just about everything else they did.
Way to miss the point. As expected.
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You can't determine that what we traded for a guy was too much before he plays a game. Even with that, we traded a second round pick for a starting qb better than any we could have drafted with said pick.
If its a second rounder next year, we went 8-8 or better which will likely show a few things. Andy Reid, the hire you love, runs an offense that has shown over and over to be one that doesn't allow a qb to hide behind a running game and defense.
It's ironic that all the elite or bust guys are furious with this move when, like djln said, we got the qb out of the draft who has the highest ceiling, and paired him with what everyone here at the time of the signing called a qb guru and passed in a guy who's upside at this point is the guy we just traded for.
Yeah, would have loved for there to have been Peyton manning sitting there at 1.1. But to say we drafted a guy who doesn't improve te team is a little off base when you in turn advocate that we should have taken a qb at 1.1 who wouldn't significantly upgrade the team either.
If you want to argue they should have taken someone else, I can get on board with that. I would have taken Richardson there, but I can see the upside if you will with taking fisher. Yes, I don't like the pick, but I can also look at te player an realize that he has the chance to be an elite player due to his skillet and probably is one of the players from the draft who's has the best chance to reach that level.