So the front office blew a third round pick. 12 of the 14 picks that the Mangini/Tannenbaum front office have made will be on the opening day roster. If you look around the league this is well above average. Most teams are lucky to have 50% of their picks on their team a year later. 2006 1a Brick 1b Mangold 2 Clemens 3a Schlegel 3b Eric Smith 4a Brad Smith 4b Leon Washington 5 Jason Posiac 6 Drew Coleman 7 Titus Adams 2007 1 Revis 2 Harris 6 Bender 7 Stucky So I know everyone wants to throw the front office under the bus for this one horrible pick but my question is who would you have taken at that spot instead of Schlegel? And Max Jean Gilles is absolutely horrible, he gave up 3 sacks last week to Mosley. I'm sure most of you will go with the RB from the falcons Norwood. But what lineman could we have taken?
Yeah like I said 50% is incredibly above average and our front office is at a much higher clip then that right now.
Who is giving them crap? I basically wrote how over the last two seasons they are probably the best drafting team. But plenty of people have blasted the front office over that pick.
It was a bad pick, but you're right, overall the picks have been solid. I'm actually happier that they were able to say "hey, we messed up" rather than keep him on the roster another 2 years.
Good management teams are not afraid to cut players who do not work out. Bad management teams are afraid to cut anybody they draft before all the flesh rots off the carcass. Not saying the current management team is good but keeping Schlegel around would have been a counterindicator given how he has failed to work out.
This and the Kimo sigining our their 2 biggest mistakes so far. You can't get it right all the time. Its shows they make the tough decisions, admitting the obvious and moving on. Other Jet admins. might have kept one of them.
Diamond in the Rough Dear Mr. Tannenbaum Thank you for giving the Redskins organization the opportunity to pickup a player with the potential of an Anthony Schlegel. As an x-Jet we realize he could be a significant addition to our team. You have my deepest appreciation for not forcing us to give up a 1st or 2nd round draft pick to aquire him and we hope that you continue to do business in this manner. We think Anthony is a perfect fit and he is loaded with potential. The DC/Maryland area is well known for its boar hunting, just think of all the articles the local beat writers can put together on this unusual, yet talented kid. Sincerely, Daniel Snyder PS: Let us know how things work out with Jacob Bender, we have some extra picks this year...
The Barlow signing was much worse than the Kimo signing. With Kimo, we did not have to give up a draft pick. We lost a 4th for Barlow. The niners fleeced us big time.
Don't agree. Kimo was signed during the offseason in attempt to bolster the line. Barlow was a trade of neccesity. Last year the RBs were so bad and so thin, the FO was forced to bring someone in. Even if that meant overpaying a bit. But it wasn't a bad trade, they needed another body in the backfield just to field a team, there really wasn't a choice.
It's another reason why football is better than baseball. Basically, if you suck in the NFL you'll get cut. Meanwhile, in baseball Guillermo Mota and Scott Schoeneweis are Schlegeling it up on various diamonds and the Mets seem to be okay with it.
The barlow move was the only move that reeked of desperation. The Kimo signing wasn't a bad one at all when it was made. Kimo had experience in the 3-4 defense, by all accounts was a locker room leader and would be able to assist Mangini tutor the less experienced guys in the ways of the 3-4, and would be a stop gap/hold the fort type of player until we could replace him with someone more effective. This offseason we acquired Kenyon Coleman, who will definitely be more effective. Thus in a sense you can say Kimo served his purpose. He held the fort for one year... didn't do a great job but it was good enough to get by on one year. Now we are upgraded at the position. Good job by Tannenbaum across the board. Can't blame them on one guy flopping in the draft either... some players just don't have the ability to translate to the NFL level, no matter how good they looked in college. I think Schlegel had the Adalius Thomas / Edgerton Hartwell / Lance Briggs type of thing going at Ohio State, where he looked much better than he actually was because he was lining up next to AJ Hawk and Bobby Carpenter... Carpenter hasn't looked that great on the NFL level either.
Tangini is getting a bad rap for drafting smeagle because no one thought it would be a good pick, and they gave us a stupid reason for drafting him.
