by DeadRinger » Sat Sep 08, 2018 12:27 pm
I would have been MORE concerned if Gruden had come in here and kept all the scrubs Reggie stuck him with. The fact that he started ditching a bunch of Reggie’s high-round flops tells me he really DOES know what he’s looking at when he evaluates a player.
The Mack thing was a freak issue. And by the way, it all started before Gruden ever even got here. Reggie had his chances to make things happen. He had time to make inroads, to solidify the relationship. Instead he ignored it like Mack was some UDFA we were thinking about keeping on our practice squad.
Reggie’s a fucking disgrace. So yeah, Gruden has an excuse. For this offseason. I give him a pass on Mack, particularly given the compensation we got. Of course, I give us about a 40% chance of turning either of those picks into a solid long-term starter, but that’s beside the point. When it comes to value in compensation, we did ok.
AND we jettisoned a huge distraction and headache in a guy who was by-God going to break the bank come hell or high water. And after the way Reggie treated him like a bitch, it’s possible Mack was determined to work his way the fuck out of this organization anyway. I mean, as far as I could tell, he wasn’t exactly all warm-hearted, showing up for camp and everything saying all the right things like “i’m Just gonna show up fo my boyz an we see if’n thangz falls into place o suffin’“.
Nah. There was no talk like that at all.
So here we are w picks galore and cap space now and into the future. And now we’ll damn sure see, starting with THIS year’s picks, if Gruden can build a winner.
Given the fact that i’ve Watched him do it before when he didn’t have anything even CLOSE to Carr’s talent at QB, i’m Actually quite comfortable with the situation. Not to mention the OL. Gruden has the foundation to QUICKLY build a top-5 offense. We could easily see that next season.
BETTER be a playoff win in 2022.