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8 minutes ago, SaviorPeterman said:

Matt STUD-lano should have been starting all season. Yet another questionable personnel and evaluation move by this regime:

 

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What if the wasn't ready to start all season? It's not unusual for rookies to need some time before they are ready.

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10 minutes ago, SaviorPeterman said:

Matt STUD-lano should have been starting all season. Yet another questionable personnel and evaluation move by this regime:

 

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Not wanting to rush a player before they are ready and the fact they brought him in shows they had no problem evaluating him at one point.  Do people just B word to B word or something?

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I wouldn't say it was a questionable decision not to start him early in the year.  He didn't flash that much in the preseason.  Later in the year he did and he saw play time after that.  I wish he'd have gotten in a few games earlier but I believe he got better week to week.  A fifth rounder that starts for you before the year is over is tough to argue with.  I even made threads saying he should start but I also take stock in what he's doing on the practice field as a young player.  They made him earn it instead of just handing the job over to him, I have a respect for that.  Either way, we got a rookie 5th round linebacker to become a starter within his first year, that's pretty darn good.  I'm not going to be complaining too much about that.  

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1 minute ago, Woodman19 said:

Not wanting to rush a player before they are ready and the fact they brought him in shows they had no problem evaluating him at one point.  Do people just B word to B word or something?

i think that many people really just don't understand how sports works. It's as if the end of training camp is some magical moment where everyone knows what they need to know to be ready with nothing left to learn.

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9 minutes ago, John from Hemet said:

Putting Zay Jones aside (who I still believe is gonna get it turned around) this was an EXTREMELY successful draft.....if Bean can work this magic next year we are cooking with fire

GM Brandon Beane was Hired 5/9. If he is that good of a cheater he'd be employed by P*ts. 

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11 minutes ago, John from Hemet said:

Putting Zay Jones aside (who I still believe is gonna get it turned around) this was an EXTREMELY successful draft.....if Bean can work this magic next year we are cooking with fire

Agreed

 

The question is though, who's draft board were we going off of. Whaley was still here then. Was this a Whaley or McD draft? Was McD consulting with Beane before he was even here? I know some of the Panthers fans were crying foul at the time. 

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3 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

Whaley always had an eye for mid-round LBs.

 

 

We'll find out more about who called the shots on the 2017 draft over the course of the next couple seasons.

 

Donahoe's first draft was bananas........Clements, Schobel, Henry and Jonas Jennings all in succession.   People forget Jonas Jennings but when he wasn't getting carted off the field he was every bit as good as Cordy Glenn, IMO.

 

We later came to find out that draft was about the work of Dwight Adams.........who, like Whaley, was cast aside after that draft.  

 

Donahoe never came close to repeating that kind of draft.

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8 minutes ago, klos63 said:

i think that many people really just don't understand how sports works. It's as if the end of training camp is some magical moment where everyone knows what they need to know to be ready with nothing left to learn.

 

Right. Winning teams build up players correctly, slowly...

 

especially if they are later round picks

 

there is one thing that every coach will ask of you especially at the nfl level

 

that is to get better everyday... if you aren't getting better everyday in the NFL you are regressing 

 

Milano has definitely put in massive work and he is markedly better than when the season started 

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13 minutes ago, Limeaid said:

GM Brandon Beane was Hired 5/9. If he is that good of a cheater he'd be employed by P*ts. 

He didn't say Beane selected those players, he said if he could make the same kind of magic happen from last year's draft...i think you just assumed he meant that Beane drafted those players.

Either way, McDermott certainly had a hand in drafting those players.  Matt Milano doesn't look like a Whaley pick does it?  I believe McDermott had a large hand in that class.  Especially with the linebacker picks that scream McD type players.

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17 minutes ago, klos63 said:

What if the wasn't ready to start all season? It's not unusual for rookies to need some time before they are ready.

 

Unpossible!

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3 minutes ago, BillsEnthusiast said:

Whaley's drafts were never as good as this last one. Maybe he had some influence, but I think this was a joint operation.

McDermott...just look at the linebacker picks

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24 minutes ago, SaviorPeterman said:

Matt STUD-lano should have been starting all season. Yet another questionable personnel and evaluation move by this regime:

 

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Huh. I would say exactly the opposite...

 

IMO I thought he struggled in preseason and early in the year.

And I don't know if you remember, but at that time Humber was playing really well. It's hard to say that Milano earned the job over Humber early in the year.

 

I thought Milano developed as the year went on, and did very well filling in for Humber when he got injured. Then Humber came back and didn't play nearly as well as he had earlier in the year, while Milano continued to improve. So he was then given the starting job. 

 

I think things went exactly as they should. Why should Milano, a late round rookie, have been handed a starting job to start the year when it was pretty clear to everyone that Humber earned it? 

But when it became clear that Milano should be starting, he was named the starter. Isn't that how things should work? A rookie shouldn't just be handed a starting job he hasn't earned just because he was a draft pick of the new regime. 

 

So, I'd say that first, it was a great evaluation move to snag Milano late in the draft. And then I'd say it was a good evaluation/personnel move to let him develop and name him starter when he had truly earned it. 

 

I definitely done see this as some quesrionable move to comp,win about, that for sure... 

 

 

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45 minutes ago, SaviorPeterman said:

Matt STUD-lano should have been starting all season. Yet another questionable personnel and evaluation move by this regime:

 

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is 71.5 a great rating?  How does that compare with other starting LB's around the league?

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