good...i don't want any more obsessive playerfans. playerfans have their side forum.i get people making some comments in other threads here and there.but obsession and worship belongs in the subforum. period. no one i know of here thinks bb is infallible. but when someone bats %90, you give them the benefit of the doubt more on their decisions. he's done stuff i hated,like bringing in ab, haynesworth that worked out poorly. there's things i hated that he did that worked out well (dillon,moss). if i can see reasoning behind things, i give him the benefit of the doubt. doesn't mean i think he's never wrong.
It's a tough profession, because even the best guys in the business, HCs, GMs or the few that have done both always have a certain percentage of dismal failures. Guys that didn't work out, cap issues and, most importantly, long stretches of bad football with losses mounting up and jobs on the line.
There is no effective way to grade these guys, but my subjective take is that the best of them might hit on 70% of their decisions. I have Bill at about 85%. Imperfect, sure, but the
best in the business.
If someone chooses to look at Bill's 2nd round busts, for instance, or a few FAs that didn't work out then, to me, that's part of the 15% he didn't get right. While yelling and
screaming can be lots of cathartic fun you have to take a look around to see the big picture. It's somewhat worse everywhere else, because football judgement is an imperfect art
and armchair critics are generally clueless.
I've learned that when Bill makes a move, a lot of times it makes no sense initially and people gripe about it (
HE DID WHAT????) , then gradually information becomes known that mitigates
the decision (
Hmmmm.....I didn't know any of that) and over the course of time when the initial flap has been long forgotten you can look back at the overall benefits with an assurance that Bill '
works in mysterious ways but he knows what he's doing (
Yeah, Rodney was better than MIlloy for half the money. Cue the duck boats.).
There are literally a hundred examples that are similar. The world watches with a short attention span, but Bill is usually able to see and anticipate the long-term issues long after the guys who
worried about what people were saying about them are trying to get a TV analyst job. See: Mangini, Eric.
