This is just as it should be IMO. The draft day trade was a gamble. A gamble that didn't pay off. You win some, you lose some. Looking back, I'm still glad we did it. It showed that this is a franchise that isn't afraid to take a chance...well, unless the "chance" involves drafting a certain high school kid from Elsik.... At any rate, hindsight is 20/20. I'm glad the franchise is moving on. We should too.
Ugh ....yes I meant Leon Smith, or maybe I meant Leon Wood the guy who camps in the lane at the YMCA and can't make a shot because he is so high..... Nah....I meant Leon Smith..... Bunkerism at best. DD
Stein is coming to logical conclusions more than any info he got from the team. How on earth is a team going to move on from such a talent when we are one Cato wrist injury from needing EG. Probably it can be said that the team thinks that Ford and BAD may help them in the long-term survive the loss of EG. However, there are unique talents to EG and the fact that he is still young make it stupid for the team to have so quickly moved on. This is a team that did not move on when Cato was infinitely more ineffective than EG and now the team is being rewarded for its patience. Despite the play of Cato and MoT, they cannot bring what EG can and there could be many times this season when he will be missed big time. The great thing about it is that the team has the luxury of waiting and being patient. At the rate the team is going they are not going to be getting high draft picks in a while so cherish the ones that you have. I am more excited about the team with EG that the team without.
Sane and Dear Rock. Great posts. Why panic. Good comment on Cato and patience. Eddie and Ford are both good 12th man development projects. Much better than Langhi, Collier and others we've had lately. We have enough vets now to carry the load. Let's hope one or both of these young guys develop. If we hit the jackpot with one of them, then we really will be title contenders in two or three years. Let's be a "Dynasty" like the old time Yankees, or Celtics or even the Blazers, where the young guys with potential learn on the bench like they used to in the old days. Do we really have the Bird rights to Eddie? The best way to look at Eddie is that he still has all the risks and upside of a typical first rounder. Why throw him away? If he is in the psych hospital or rehab or whatever, give him one more good chance before discarding him.
