Derrick Ward Released

[gtexan02]

Spinning off this rather than being critical, this illustrates how inexact an art player evaluation is. You would have given up a 4th. No GM in the league chose to draft the guy at all. Tennessee got him UDFA like we got Foster. Then they kept Jevon Ringer and Herb Donaldson over Blount who has gone off to have a 1000+ yd rookie season.

I think a large part of it is human nature.

I think Blounts draft stock fell due to character concerns rather than talent alone.

 

[infantrycak]

I think a large part of it is human nature.

I think Blounts draft stock fell due to character concerns rather than talent alone.

Sure his draft stock did but then he was picked up by TN and they didn't evaluate his talent well after making the leap on his character concerns. Fisher is a coach most around here would hold up as lots better than Kubiak and he made a mistake on talent there.

 

[IDEXAN]

But instead of spending a 2nd rd pick on Tate. I wanted a 4th rd pick to be spent on Blount.

I'm fine with that because a 4th round pick is only worth about 1/6 of what a
2nd round pick is worth.

 

[keyser]

By the way, the title of this thread is quite upsetting now (temporarily).

I've actually read this thread a few times, and the title still catches me off guard when I first go into the forum.

 

[mattieuk]

I've actually read this thread a few times, and the title still catches me off guard when I first go into the forum.

I was confused about why it wasn't in the Texans forum, but yup, thought the same thing.

 

[GP]

I've actually read this thread a few times, and the title still catches me off guard when I first go into the forum.

Does it to me too. Every freaking time. LOL.

I think we've been conditioned, as Texans fans, to expect that good things never last.