Coaching can really screw up a team. I keep hearing everyone clamor about how little talent we have, and while I agree our team may not be displaying superbowl winning talent right now, they had potential during some point in their careers. Lets look at it this way:
On offense:
QB - Carr - 1st round
HB - Lundy - 6th round
WR - Moulds - 1st round
WR - Johnson - 1st round
TE - Daniels - 4th round
LT - Spencer - 3rd round
LG - Pitts - 2nd round
C - Flanagan - 3rd round
RG - Weary - 3rd round
RT - Wiegart - 3rd round
On defense:
DE - Williams - 1st round
DT - Johnson - 1st round
DT - Seth Payne - 4th round
DE - Anthony Weaver - 2nd round pick
Rotating In - Babin (1st round), Peek (3rd round)
WILB - Greenwood -3rd round
MLB - Ryans - 2nd round
SSLB - Orr - undrafted
CB - Robinson - 1st round
CB - Sanders - 4th round
Nickel CB - Buchannon - 1st round
FS - Brown - 6th round
SS - Earl - 4th pick
Now not even accounting for draft position, which I really should considering that we have always drafted in the top half of the draft, the average talent level of our team is 2nd round. On offense, with the exception of Lundy, we have no starters drafted in the 5th round or later. We have only 1 4th rounder.
Unless we have THE WORST talent scouts in the NFL, we should be able to do something with all these players. I mean lets be reasonable--they weren't picked this high for nothing! We have: 8, count them EIGHT (Carr, AJ, Moulds, Williams, TJ, PBuch, Babin, DRob) players on this team who were chosen in the 1st round! Why can't we make someething out of them? I think Capers and Co. REALLY screwed us either by drafting horribly or coaching the talent they did draft terribly.
On offense:
QB - Carr - 1st round
HB - Lundy - 6th round
WR - Moulds - 1st round
WR - Johnson - 1st round
TE - Daniels - 4th round
LT - Spencer - 3rd round
LG - Pitts - 2nd round
C - Flanagan - 3rd round
RG - Weary - 3rd round
RT - Wiegart - 3rd round
On defense:
DE - Williams - 1st round
DT - Johnson - 1st round
DT - Seth Payne - 4th round
DE - Anthony Weaver - 2nd round pick
Rotating In - Babin (1st round), Peek (3rd round)
WILB - Greenwood -3rd round
MLB - Ryans - 2nd round
SSLB - Orr - undrafted
CB - Robinson - 1st round
CB - Sanders - 4th round
Nickel CB - Buchannon - 1st round
FS - Brown - 6th round
SS - Earl - 4th pick
Now not even accounting for draft position, which I really should considering that we have always drafted in the top half of the draft, the average talent level of our team is 2nd round. On offense, with the exception of Lundy, we have no starters drafted in the 5th round or later. We have only 1 4th rounder.
Unless we have THE WORST talent scouts in the NFL, we should be able to do something with all these players. I mean lets be reasonable--they weren't picked this high for nothing! We have: 8, count them EIGHT (Carr, AJ, Moulds, Williams, TJ, PBuch, Babin, DRob) players on this team who were chosen in the 1st round! Why can't we make someething out of them? I think Capers and Co. REALLY screwed us either by drafting horribly or coaching the talent they did draft terribly.