Venturi to stay

saintswhodi · 01-22-2005, 05:33 PM

Kool, I guess we aren\'t coming to a consensus on this one. I look at the teams that are good now and I see recently where they were bad. Cycles can vary from team to team based on front offices and coaching. If a team has a run of good coaches, they may be able to maintain a high level with a minimum of lulls. But the lull comes. I still don\'t see an example of a team this hasn\'t happened for. From the 90s on, at the heights of free sgency and the cap. Except mainly us that is, cause we keep floundering down the same road. If we weren\'t 9-7 3 years ago, here\'s who we could have: Mike Vick, Ladanian Tomlinson, Dam Morgan, Nate Clements, Casey Hampton, Santana Moss. If we weren\'t 7-9 a year later we could have had: David Carr, Julius Peppers, Bryant McKinnie, Roy Williams(Dallas), or Dwight Freeney. If we don;t go 8-8 the next year we could have, Carson Palmer, Andre Johnson, Dewayne Robertson. Dominant players that were the difference between being mediocre, and being just plain down in any one of those years. SO I see a HUGE difference between picking 16th and picking 5th. That cycle means a lot to me cause it shows you don\'t have to be down long to get better. But if you stay where we are, you continue to draft middle of the road players with middle of the road attributes and reach for others.

01-22-2005, 05:33 PM	#39
saintswhodi 5000 POSTS! + Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 6,941	Venturi to stay Kool, I guess we aren\'t coming to a consensus on this one. I look at the teams that are good now and I see recently where they were bad. Cycles can vary from team to team based on front offices and coaching. If a team has a run of good coaches, they may be able to maintain a high level with a minimum of lulls. But the lull comes. I still don\'t see an example of a team this hasn\'t happened for. From the 90s on, at the heights of free sgency and the cap. Except mainly us that is, cause we keep floundering down the same road. If we weren\'t 9-7 3 years ago, here\'s who we could have: Mike Vick, Ladanian Tomlinson, Dam Morgan, Nate Clements, Casey Hampton, Santana Moss. If we weren\'t 7-9 a year later we could have had: David Carr, Julius Peppers, Bryant McKinnie, Roy Williams(Dallas), or Dwight Freeney. If we don;t go 8-8 the next year we could have, Carson Palmer, Andre Johnson, Dewayne Robertson. Dominant players that were the difference between being mediocre, and being just plain down in any one of those years. SO I see a HUGE difference between picking 16th and picking 5th. That cycle means a lot to me cause it shows you don\'t have to be down long to get better. But if you stay where we are, you continue to draft middle of the road players with middle of the road attributes and reach for others.