Marvin49":27vackmk said:
rideaducati":27vackmk said:
Three starters in three drafts since McLoughan left...yes, that is ludicrous.
Yeah, Baalke had a bad 2012. AJ Jenkins was a bad pick. Its not like McCloughan didn't miss either. Anyone remember Kentwan Balmer?
Seattle forums are the only place I see this "Baalke sucks" drivel. It's pushed basically from the rivalry and from teh fact that McCloughan is in the Seattle organization now so you want to in some way take credit for the good players on the roster. Just admit that and lets be done with it.
It may take some more years to know how good Baalke really is, but I'd say he's done pretty well so far. Aldon, Bowman, Kaepernick is nothing to be sneezed at. Even hitting a high pick is no guarantee. There are players picked ahead of Eric Reid who have not done as well.
BTW, I have a different perspective on Schneider. I don't know if he's the best GM in the NFL.......I think as far as GM/HC combos go for bringing in personnel, the Seahawks were the best in the league the last two seasons.
But put Schneider on a number of different elite teams and I doubt he does any better than the big names in the league. Carroll evaluates and acquires talent a lot different from most other coaches. For his schemes, a 3rd round guy might be better than a 1st round guy. You have the best secondary in the league with just *1* first round pick, and a bunch of 5ths, a UFA that just left to the Patriots.
Then the front 7 benefits a ton from a lot of man coverage.
It's impressive and it needs credit, but that has to go a lot to Carroll. Schneider should get credit for being flexible and making it happen.
Seahawks fans don't want to hear it, but in the NFL, there's no ONE person that does anything 1000 times better than anyone else. There's no head coach who is a grandmaster playing amongst experts (chess). There's no GM/scouting department that is head and shoulders above the rest. Same with working the salary cap, and position coaches.
We'll see what the future holds.
And Marvin is right....McCloughan probably was invisible to Hawks fans until he joined their organization. Same goes for Mike Holmgren, Jim Mora Jr., Carroll, Ken Norton Jr., etc.