Watched this yesterday , Poles seemed to go best Available at A need position, limited picks and Cap Space.
So you go with GM speak and believe whatever you're told? I get that, I held Nagy to loving Trubisky, but that is to show what he says can't be trusted.
Are those two players playing like hidden talent that slipped to the 2nd round? BPA at CB and S may not shine until year 2 but they should be doing something great.
So they weren't BPA. They were players at positions someone wanted but not BPA.
Compare them to players at more needed positions, positions that would help say Fields, yay or nay. They are DEFINITELY not the BPA. So whoever decided to draft them was just wrong.
The draft is over, the season is underway. Now is the time to start playing hindsight draft so judge how the GM did. As far as impact to the game this many games into a season he has failed. We should at least be seeing flashes of greatness.
And I do love ball hawking CBs and Ss so I still have hope they were can't pass up picks and they're just slow to show.
Holmes and I are of similar minds when it comes to Justin fields and evaluating him.
The only thing that would disagree with is never blame on malpractice what you can attribute to stupidity. I think this is a brand new coaching staff and a brand new general manager.
I think they thought in their heads they could get away with what they had for a season by running the ball and playing really good defense which is why they drafted as they did. I don't believe that's any sort of referendum on fields.
It worked out for a couple games but now things are changing and they realize they can't keep it up, so as we've seen for New England they actually are changing things up and Patrick is now the center.
I think this is just growing pains from a coaching staff and GM who are learning on the job.
Now, if they go into next year and don't get Fields help, then I will be on board with considering it to be coaching and GM malpractice.
I go with malpractice because the answer was so obvious it was even stated by Poles before he did the opposite.
But the answer we got was a rerun from Trubisky, and Cutler so I'm thinking it's the one constant from Angelo to Pace to Poles. Ownership is sticking their nose into it too much. Just like it's the ownership who sticks GMs with QBs drafted the year before and push HCs on GMs. I think they're micromanaging the team and not managing their GM when they should be (telling Pace "No more big moves, you're gone. We're not sticking the next guy with your failures. This is the start of your clean up year." instead, "Sure get a 1st round QB, we like him. The next GM will like him too.").