Because I sure as heck am. Sportswriters are total bandwagon jumpers, and it's starting to really tick me off. I must have read at least 3 long articles on how we just passed up on Jordan. Sorry, but I've yet to see any single NFL player dominate games on a consistent basis. Especially championship teams. You can win basketball championships with 2 key players. You have to win football championships with 11 on both sides of the ball. Football is the ultimate team sport. If anyone else believes that we passed on Jordan (ie a guy who's going to bring us a championship), than you are an idiot.
Did we pass up on the best football prospect ever? Yes, we just did. Did we pass up on building a championship team? Hardly. Would I have preferred Bush? Yes. Do I think we made a huge mistake? Only time will tell. But odds are 50/50 that either pick would help us win more games than the other. I can name a number of teams that would pick Williams ahead of Bush despite his being "the best prospect ever": Seahawks, Chargers, Chiefs, Bucs and likely Eagles, Steelers, and Giants. Think about it. Half these sportswriters don't even follow our team, so WTF do they know what we need to do to win?
Likely scenario 1) When DD is healthy, he's still going to put up 150 all purpose yards a game. Add in AJ and Moulds and we got a solid offense on paper. Morency is another RB who should show good improvement this season and is easily capable of doing the same thing. Mathis can become a game breaker if he stops acting like an idiot. We then add Mario Williams who can single-handedly bump our defensive ranking up 7-10 spots, not to mention the other changes that have been made for this defense.
Likely scenario 2) We draft Bush who is an instant contributor on offense who is a legitimate TD threat on any given play if teams don't respect him. We've got an offense that has the best skill postitions on the field hands down. But that still doesn't mean we're going to win shootouts versus Peyton Manning.
In the meantime, we still can't stop anybody and our Defense is still ranked at the bottom. You've got to be kidding me if you guys think Peek and Babin are good enough pass rushers to merit not taking Mario. These guys as SO OVERRATED! There isn't a team in the NFL that's even a tad jealous that we have these guys on our roster. We're probably the only fans in the NFL who know their names for crying out loud! I can't believe there is so much talk about 2 guys that have produced so little. Yes, our defense is apparantly THAT BAD. You can make a case that the coaching staff screwed up our offense production, but on defense, it's much more about quality players than schemes. The players that we have on D SUCK, and we did not address that in free agency like we did on offense. Weaver is nice, but that's about it. I don't even think the LB that we picked up in FA is a starter.
I don't think you can argue that any of these scenarios are better than another.
Did we pass up on the best football prospect ever? Yes, we just did. Did we pass up on building a championship team? Hardly. Would I have preferred Bush? Yes. Do I think we made a huge mistake? Only time will tell. But odds are 50/50 that either pick would help us win more games than the other. I can name a number of teams that would pick Williams ahead of Bush despite his being "the best prospect ever": Seahawks, Chargers, Chiefs, Bucs and likely Eagles, Steelers, and Giants. Think about it. Half these sportswriters don't even follow our team, so WTF do they know what we need to do to win?
Likely scenario 1) When DD is healthy, he's still going to put up 150 all purpose yards a game. Add in AJ and Moulds and we got a solid offense on paper. Morency is another RB who should show good improvement this season and is easily capable of doing the same thing. Mathis can become a game breaker if he stops acting like an idiot. We then add Mario Williams who can single-handedly bump our defensive ranking up 7-10 spots, not to mention the other changes that have been made for this defense.
Likely scenario 2) We draft Bush who is an instant contributor on offense who is a legitimate TD threat on any given play if teams don't respect him. We've got an offense that has the best skill postitions on the field hands down. But that still doesn't mean we're going to win shootouts versus Peyton Manning.
In the meantime, we still can't stop anybody and our Defense is still ranked at the bottom. You've got to be kidding me if you guys think Peek and Babin are good enough pass rushers to merit not taking Mario. These guys as SO OVERRATED! There isn't a team in the NFL that's even a tad jealous that we have these guys on our roster. We're probably the only fans in the NFL who know their names for crying out loud! I can't believe there is so much talk about 2 guys that have produced so little. Yes, our defense is apparantly THAT BAD. You can make a case that the coaching staff screwed up our offense production, but on defense, it's much more about quality players than schemes. The players that we have on D SUCK, and we did not address that in free agency like we did on offense. Weaver is nice, but that's about it. I don't even think the LB that we picked up in FA is a starter.
I don't think you can argue that any of these scenarios are better than another.
