Originally Posted by
steelreserve
People are just frustrated by the fact that we drafted "raw talent, needs time" players with our first two picks (as well as our first pick last year), when we are supposedly in win-now mode and shouldn't be farting around with player development.
It was frustrating when we made the picks, and frustrating all over again when you watch it play out in games, even if we supposedly knew it was coming.
Then when you consider our track record of "coaching up" these talented-but-not-ready players ... it's not good, pretty much a complete whiff on every one of them so far. Combine that with our track record of developing DBs into reasonable players (not a single one since Ike Taylor) and you start to really worry whether this was a smart path for us to go down.
Meanwhile, a couple hours to the west ...