Sorry, but you sound as thought it was just a bad roll of the dice - it wasn't.S197 wrote:Lets also not forget they invested more in the line than any other team. It's unfortunate that Kalil, Sullivan, Loadholt, and Harris were injured but that's the way the cards fell.
Being critical of a GM is fine, but I think it's a little premature to be calling for his job or a pay cut at this point.
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Kalil - bad pick. After a solid first year, he's been injured or bad or both. It was a controversial decision to extend Kalil on a 5th year because 1)he's injury prone 2) he acts like he doesn't care as has been discussed ad nauseum even on this site for year, 3) he's been terrible at times, average at other. Spielman is the GM and he made the decision to go with Kalil with a HUGE 5th year salary this year. There were red flags all over the place with Kalil, Spielman chose to ignore them.
Sully - I like Sully, but he is 30+ and had a major back injury last year. Again, lots of red flags. Spielman failed on this one again
Loadholt - again I like him but he's 30+ and is coming off a major Achilles injury, not to mention he missed all of the previous year. HUGE red flags - Spielman fails AGAIN here.
Harris - this is the one I give him a pass. Not even sure what the issue is, but it sounds bad and I feel terrible for Harris. it was a fluke and impossible to predict. That said, it's not like Harris was some OL savior, just a decent OG - better than Fusco.
The 3rd round trade this year because the roster was too deep - FAIL! He could have picked up a good OL at this point.
Beavers - FAIL! just a total FAIL!!!
I just can't believe people try to explain this OL with bad luck!!! It's an utter and complete failure by Spielman, and the results speak for themselves.