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Originally Posted by Chief Northman
Way too many Veach and Reid apologists here. No doubt this team is in the most competitive era it has been in under this regime, but they are not without their warts. The Britt Reid fiasco cost them a second consecutive Super Bowl in my opinion, and that second half of the Bengals game was pure meltdown. The Frank Clark deal along with the Edwards-Helaire selection are not looking good years later and the voids on the defense currently with no veteran presence at certain levels of the defence are very concerning. The draft won’t solve all issues for this team and I am shocked Veach has not done more to at least insulate some positions with veteran additions. I hope there are no desperation moves ahead burning draft capital to get a big ticket name that robs the team of future cap management and the ability to replenish. One would feel better about such a move if the overall depth of the team was better, but there are so many needs right now.
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There's a bizarre group who think Veach is absolutely beyond reproach and that any questioning of any decision is sacrilege. However, I think the fairest argument they use is the one that says "you have to wait to see how things pan out, and you have to take all decisions together, not in isolation". I think as an overall assessment of Veach that's the correct approach.
But it does get silly when people can't accept any mistakes have been made. I mean, all GMs make mistakes. If someone is saying he flat out sucks, then fine, that's silly. If someone is saying "I don't think CEH was a good pick" or "Frank Clark's contract was a mistake" or "I'm not 100% convinced the Hill trade will work out" - it is odd how personally some people seem to take this, they're hardly indefensible positions to take.
In terms of this FA it's obviously slower than last year's. A lot of people liked his decisiveness last year and now apparently think a slower/"build it through the draft" approach is right. I think that's actually reasonable, simply because this FA I've not seen a whole load of realistic options out there for us. There's no-one that's been brought in that I'm that excited about, but equally I could see all of them work out. But I also agree, at this point there's a lot of holes and we've definitely not used FA to fill ALL needs. Thank God we have a million draft picks.