A.J. Hawk, Greg Jennings, Justin Harrell

[retailguy]

This will be unfair entrapment but I'll do it anyways

All of last year I begged for the Snapper to sign a OG so we could let the draft picks battle it out with a veteran and may the best two win. Nothing wrong with letting one of them develop as a backup.

Considering how weak you considered the overall OL play to be last year, would you agree that TT should have signed a vet ? It is his job to put a winning team together and if the OL was as glaring of a weakenss as you point out, shouldn't that fall back onto him ? Signing a vet OL seemed to glaringly obvious to me if we wanted to compete last year. He did have 35MIL last year

Truthfully, I really can't answer that unless I knew Ted's plan. AND I HAVE NO F'ING IDEA WHAT THAT REALLY IS.

If his plan is to get the new guys playing, and win with them, then NO, I wouldn't support bringing in veterans at this point, as first, it would slow the development of the young guys, and second, they did show some promise last season, (though they played NOWHERE NEAR the level that some here are bantering about. They ranked just above "we suck" most of the time, with "a few flashes" of brilliance).

If he is truly committed to "Winning NOW" as he "claims" to be, then we NEED some experience on the OL, because these young guys won't cut it with young backs. I think you can have a young line, OR, you can have young backs, but you can't have both. That's the single biggest reason I was so pissed off that Ahman Green left. Expecting these two young backs to find a hole and run behind this line, is like expecting world peace. It AIN'T happening. (Yes, you guys can write that down, and bring it back up to me, when Brandon Jackson passes 1,000 yards this year).

So, end of line, if his plan is to "tank" the 2007 season for the benefit of the future, I'm fine with the plan. If he "THINKS" he's winning with the guys we've got, well, lets just say he's not the GM that he thinks he is, because at this point, that's a very NAIVE assumption.

[RashanGary]

This will be unfair entrapment but I'll do it anyways

All of last year I begged for the Snapper to sign a OG so we could let the draft picks battle it out with a veteran and may the best two win. Nothing wrong with letting one of them develop as a backup.

Considering how weak you considered the overall OL play to be last year, would you agree that TT should have signed a vet ? It is his job to put a winning team together and if the OL was as glaring of a weakenss as you point out, shouldn't that fall back onto him ? Signing a vet OL seemed to glaringly obvious to me if we wanted to compete last year. He did have 35MIL last year

If we had LeCharles Bently healthy we probably would have won 1 or 2 more games. It certainly hurt us for that moment. That said, we don't have the cap hit of Bently and I don't htink he'd help us very much at all this year. I think we're better off now because we suffered through some growing pains yesterday. It's part of the game if you want to win with the looming cap. It's funny, everyone says "WE WANT TO WIN NOW" but guess what, right NOW we have a lot better chance of winning and continuing to get better because we made an investment yesterday. It takes a little vision but I think we're just starting to see the benefits of good decision making in 07.

[RashanGary]

We sort of started over with a lot of Wolf's aging roster so I think we're going to suffer through some RB and Safety pain this year but eventually all of the stars will align. We keep getting better and we keep the means to continue to get better open. With that in mind, I'm very happy iwth the direction right now. I think we could make the playoffs, similar to Shermans years but we have the means to grow from there and that is the difference.