A new GM with less than 2 yrs on the job and still hasn’t done his second draft…. Did something no other GM has done since 2016! Getting comp picks…. I didn’t look back but I bet it’s been a decade since any prior GM got three in one season; let along their rookie GM season…
Thats it comp pics can be good and bad. If the player isn’t worth the contract witch is Gollowdays case it’s good , but if you loose a great player a pic might not help. But you get them for being compensated from the lose of a player.
I’m not sure I’d call it greatness, but I think it was smart not to sign Golladay Agnew and Davis – I was shocked at what they got elsewhere.
This is probably why we haven’t heard anything on JRM or Nick Williams - they may go elsewhere, we’ll see.
Holmes has has a record of 3-14-1. Let’s chill out with the ‘greatness’ stuff.
I find it hilarious that Holmes guys here on the board have no issue dogging people for having the opinion that he had a poor Free Agency because it’s so early, but yet have no issue putting a crown on his head and treating him like an infallible god after a single 3-win season. You’re literally doing the same thing you’re complaining about the other side doing, just on the exact opposite end.
Could Holmes’ be great? Maybe. Could Holmes also end up sucking? Maybe. I’ve seen enough Lions GMs and been excited about early moves in a new Front Office’s tenure to know these guys, even in their 1st/2nd year, shouldn’t get a free pass.
NE has let people go forever that still had a year or two left of decent play but ended up signing contracts that payed them like they were worth much more. Those pic’s have been how they have been so good for years. With the exit of Brady they were forced into a rebuild, so they get none this year. But comp picks were a large part of the Belichick genius…