SoulfishHawk":v42vq0h1 said:
Predicting someone is gonna suck is nothing new. Doesn't mean it's a fact and/or accurate. Do your thing Phillip.
It's like predicting that a team won't make or win a Super Bowl.
"This team is never going to make a Super Bowl while they're doing <insert thing here>". A little over 5% of the teams in the NFL make the Super Bowl. Even when your team is really good, your chances aren't that good.
Over 250 dudes get drafted every year and there are over 1,600 players on game day rosters. That doesn't include the dudes who come in/out out of the street, practice squads, and injury status through the year. Most players aren't that good. Most of those actually "suck" in the way we're talking here, even in the first round, particularly in the late first round where Dorsett was taken.
It's easy to say something isn't going to work out in this environment. It most likely won't,
But the Seahawks signed Dorsett to a one year contract that is about what a high-level third round pick is going to get. If they cut him it costs them less than $200,000 in cap money. If the dude doesn't make it past camp, it won't be surprising. There is such little downside here cap-wise that annoyance at Dorsett or people hoping he pans out magically is misplaced.
You can't enter if you don't win, and the cost of entry here is essentially nothing. Half a % of the salary cap if he stays on the roster? Dude is a rounding error. Teams sign them all the time, and the rounding errors that work out are why it's worth it.