The Blackness wrote:DeadRinger wrote:The Blackness wrote:I agree w/ part of this statement in the team WILL need that cap space & possibly more due to the lack of player sunder contract.However, RM didn't start this "GROSS organizational mismanagement" good ole Al did.I'm not sayign what RM is doing will get things turned around but I'm willing to wait & see this season & what happens in 2014.Hell, I've waited this long watching AD flush his prize possession down the toilet for years w/ his BS of "retool", overpay, etc for stiffs.
First you acknowledge that we're fucked from a roster standpoint in 2014, then you say Al's the one who mismanaged us into that situation??
I think not.
So, your view point is ALL this was due to RM & RM only?Ole AD did no wrong, huh?
I've acknowledged before that Al failed miserably with a) the coaches he hired and b) first round draft picks.
But he made a lot of good moves as well, and he finally had it wired going into 2012.
THAT'S what Tene and I have been saying this entire time.
So let me give you a perfectly clear answer. YES, this train wreck is all Reggie's doing. The time for blaming Al is long past.
And for all you folks who want to state unequivocally that Reggie just had no choice in any of the cuts and FA losses, I'll point out some things that prove you wrong and some other issues that make me want to puke.
1. We have something like $15M in cap space THIS YEAR. We did NOT have to cut all those players (particularly Huff and DHB) and we most certainly could have re-signed guys like Shaughnessy, Bryant, Myers, etc. if the moves had been properly coordinated and executed. You know... if there was a cohesive PLAN or something stupid like that. Now we have a shitload of 2013 cap money AND a shitload of smoking craters in our roster at the same time. GROSS MISMANAGEMENT. PERIOD.
2. We have a motherfucking LUDICROUS amount of cap space in 2014. Completely ridiculous. We could easily have reworked some deals and loaded some of this year's money into next year. EASILY. Yet now we have a HORRIFIC amount of 2014 cap money AND less than half a full 53-man roster going into the offseason. GROSS MISMANAGEMENT. PERIOD.
3. Al didn't fire the best HC we've had since Gruden and then hire Dennis Allen, Tarver and Knapp - and now the legendary Greg Olson. The keystone cops are all on Reggie. Every fucking one of them.
4. Al didn't refuse to play guys like Pryor, Bergstrom and Bilukidi even when our season was irretrievable, so that now we really have NO fucking idea what we have in those guys and cannot make educated decisions about their positions.
5. Al didn't sign the likes of Turnstile Brisiel, Cardboard Cut-out Willie Smith, Bartell, Spencer, Ross, Adams, Francies, Maiava, Sims, Hunter, Flynn, etc. Al didn't give Brisiel a 4-year deal to be stuck with him, while also giving Wheeler a 1-year deal only to lose him. Al didn't cut Wimbley and replace his pass rush productivity with NOTHING. The list of personnel debacles goes on and on.
Look, I could go ALL DAY listing Reggie's epic failures. They are legion. The number of things he has fucked up in just one season and one and a half offseasons is staggering.
BETTER be a playoff win in 2022.