We need to thank this man for taking Waddle over Sewell!
I like this a lot. Thought he for the most part did a good job in Miami despite a ton of tumult. I think he has a good eye for talent. Nice magic beam potential as well.
What does this mean?
If he gets hired away, because he’s a minority, we would get 2 draft picks, which long ago became known as magic beans around here. Then you factor in @CuriousHusker’s fat fingers and you get magic beams.
He meant magic bean and it is referring to the comp picks a team gets when another team hires a minority from their organization to be GM or HC
it means I don’t edit my posts.
You only get the magic beans for main executives like GM and Assistant GM. Other execs don’t count I believe..
If I’m ever President and the nukes get launched I’m blaming auto-correct.
Also sidenote.. Chris Grier was a horrid GM. His drafts were pretty awful year after year, he fired Brian Flores, yet he managed to stay in place for years. The few guys he drafted that were solid players he traded away for future beans. Laremy Tunsil, Minkah Fitzpatrick, etc. They spent a ton of money on bad free agent moves.. If you go back and look at results of their trades they are crazy imbalanced.
I completely disagree with this take. The early turnaround was actually quite impressive. Had the Flores divorce never happened he’d still be employed there.
I think both can be true to an extent. Good evaluator of talent, not so great at some of the other aspects of being a GM… but it’s also hard to know how much impact Ross had on those decisions (coaching hires, for example).
His drafts were hit and miss. Basically in line with most GM performances. There were a couple stinkers. The biggest as it relates to draft capital wasted was probably twenty. Was there anything going on in the world leading up to the draft that may have complicated preparations for that draft? I can’t remember.
I think he did pretty well in quite a few trades as well. I’d have to look into FA more deeply but he was a fine GM in Miami. Acting like he was Kwesi is bonkers.
I don’t even hate the McDaniel hire. But to make oscillations that wide to the direction of the organizational strategy you are going to deploy and then just yo-yo back to the prior approach of defensive minded strategist (and arriving at a less genius defensive strategist for that matter) is unsound business practice. I am certain that falls on Ross not Grier.
One last thing… Brad and Ray seems to think he’s a scouting asset. But they’re probably wrong and den randos are right.
That is actually very clever.
Thanks
One of my closest friend is a Miami diehard (and not a homer blowhard, capable of discourse) so I hit him up for his take. He agrees Grier has an eye for talent and should be an asset in a personnel only position, it’s the team-building stuff where he falls apart.
He has always rued that they hired Gase over Campbell, so that’s part of it (probably part of it for the whole fanbase since it was Grier’s first ‘big’ decision), but he says by far the biggest issue was the consistent failure of the OL over the course of his tenure - I don’t think they were ever ranked higher than 20th. This despite the high profile nature of Tua’s issues with poor OL play. He regularly let their own players go (Hunt, Tunsil, Wilkins, Van Ginkel) because they ‘had to sign their own’, only they didn’t have any of their own to sign in the end. The roster depth has always been overly thin.
Anyway I don’t think it’s anything we have to worry about, he won’t be handling any of those decisions. But I DO think there’s a legit reason he was considered a bad GM overall.
My system seems to match up with what I believe is consensus.
So draft wise started out hot, failed to capitalize on all of that Lance capital and was a better match for Flores style of play than McDaniel. I believe he’s a much better match for how we play football than Miami has.
Btw, got all draft info in back to 1936. Did you know that Bill Shakespeare was the third draft pick in NFL history. Half back that was a dangerous outside runner. Real threat on the iambic perimeter.
Want some analytics on Bill Shakespeare the football player?
I hate it for you that he’s not a current player, for the jokes