To me it is easy to have opinions when you face no consequences for being wrong. When your livelihood is tied to your choices everything ratchets up.
IMO people that have millions of dollars in future earnings tied to the choices they make are going to exhaust every resource they have & make what they consider the best choices they can.
No matter how much information we have or how strong our opinions are we are not putting our future on the line when we make our picks.
Real life is always different from what people on the outside think it is. Like the poster above pointed out Mike Mayock has made a living second guessing people for years but when the rubber met the road he was a complete failure.
Having said all that it does not mean that Caserio or Ryans were not wrong & are the wrong people for the job. But if they are they will eventually pay the price & be just one more failure in a profession that probably has 10 failures for every success.
I for one will at least give them the courtesy of seeing how their picks actually perform in games before I condemn them as failures.
Exactly. Which is why the “just tank and grab that unicorn next year” talk is pointless. Try telling your boss that you’re just gonna suck at your job for a year, maybe two, but when conditions are perfect you’ll perform and see how long you stay employed.
There is no sure thing in the NFL draft. You do the best you can with the information you’re given.
Aaron Curry, former Seahawks LB drafted ahead of Cushing was thought of as the cleanest prospect in the 2009 draft. Absolute bust.
Curry is now a LB coach for the Steelers and he admitted that after being drafted he basically mentally checked out because he accomplished his goal of taking care of his family financially.
Then he dealt with some injuries and did not have that innate desire to be a great player that you need to succeed in the NFL so he flamed out pretty quickly. Pretty difficult to see that lack of dog in a player in a media draft profile everyone has access to… but NFL teams try to find that out during visits and other sources.