Originally posted by Sask49erFan:
Yes they have made bad moves but none as big as the whiffs we have made.
Yes, alot of teams passed on Mahomes but how many teams needed a QB? How many teams had a guy like Brian Hoyer as their starter? Hell, taking Trubisky would have been a 100x better pick than Solomon Thomas. What kind of regime starts their 1st year and have a chance to get a young QB with a top 2 pick and takes an undersized DE? It was just an absolute boneheaded decision by a front office who have no idea what they are doing.
We could have easily kept Buckner but chose Armstead and Jimmie Ward instead. Neither are on the team anymore and are replacement level players while Buckner makes All Pro's.
The Trey Lance trade was the worst NFL draft trade EVER.
Solomon Thomas is a top 10 NFL draft bust of all time. 3rd overall pick who is barely a NFL replacement level player.
What kind of egotistical lunatic would turn down Tom freaking Brady for Jimmy Garrapolo when Brady wanted to come here?? Also keep in mind Brady came with Gronkowski. But no, Shanahan thought he could out think everyone else and scheme his way to a SB.
One of those moves would get most front offices fired nevermind 5. Then add in all the dozens of 2nd and 3rd round picks who were complete busts and it's amazing these guys are still here.
Make as many excuses as you want but these guys have made the worst moves out of any regime in football and it's not even close.
You keep ignoring the salient points of that first draft and why they made the choices they did. They were completely rebuilding the roster which was one of the worst in the league. Both Lynch and Shanahan believed the best way to do that was to start rebuilding the defense. In hindsight, you can argue against the choices they made but at the time, Thomas and Foster were generally regarded as being pretty good players.
You also continue to ignore the oft repeated fact that Shanahan had his QB in mind, one that he worked with before and knew could operate his system, Kirk Cousins. If you're goal is to get the team back into contention as quickly as possible then the logical choice would be to go with the guy you know you can win with and not draft a player that had a kind of backyard style in college and might not be the best choice for the system you wanted to run.
The problem with your argument, and everyone else who tries to make it, is that aside from the Chiefs, there probably wasn't a single team that held Mahomes in as a high regard. Because he turned out to be such a good player it's easy to come in here and say, in hindsight, oh they should have picked Mahomes. but that's just altering the facts to suit the narrative.
Kirk Cousins has played some very good games in his career and it's not too much of a stretch to think if they had waited a year to get him and built up the roster some more, he might have ended up being very successful here. They might even have gotten that ring that everyone seems so desperate for.
But instead of looking at things through the lens of what was actually going on at the time, you continue to come in here and b***h about the same things over and over again, as if you brain was on some kind of a tape loop with only one song on it. I don't pay a lot of attention to your posts but in the handful I've scanned I don't recall seeing that you ever had a single positive thing to say about team. If you got off of your one-way track for a while and actually contributed something meaningful to the conversation you might have a better chance of convincing people in here that you something other than a troll.
