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I know we have discussed him and his behavior before he moved on.
But he has had a very good year with 967 yards and made Allen a top level QB in 2020 helping get them into the playoffs.
Allen has certainly liked him as a Go To Guy..
So my question is did we make a mistake in trading for Cooper and us giving Cooper the money. Add to that also having to pay the big price tag to Cooper when we resigned him and trading a #1 pick to acquire him.
I liked Beasley and thought he was a stealthy weapon who made big plays when he was with us. His play in Buffalo has been impressive with Allen.
And when you factor in drafting CeeDee this year it has forced us to invest another #1 pick in him to fix Cobbs departure in 2019.
Quite a domino effect leaving me thinking we should have re-signed him thus needing not to reinvest a #1 pick in CeeDee to repair the damage at slot.
So 2 1st Rd picks in 2018 and again in 2019 that maybe should have been used on defense might have left us way better off.
But then again in the old Garrett regime, no matter what we did under Marrinelli and his limitations with Richard we could not draft defense at all (ie Trystan Hill and Taco Charlton high pick failures.)
So my point is as insistent as we all are in supporting our positions on player decisions we have made decisions that left us looking a little lacking.
Can we avoid that going forward with McCarthy?
I certainly hope so because we can not keep replacing missed players with trades and #1 picks.
And we can not win with guys like Dalton Smith and Gerald McCoy and Ha Ha Clinton Dix who are past their prime bodies to patch the mistakes.
Thoughts?
But he has had a very good year with 967 yards and made Allen a top level QB in 2020 helping get them into the playoffs.
Allen has certainly liked him as a Go To Guy..
So my question is did we make a mistake in trading for Cooper and us giving Cooper the money. Add to that also having to pay the big price tag to Cooper when we resigned him and trading a #1 pick to acquire him.
I liked Beasley and thought he was a stealthy weapon who made big plays when he was with us. His play in Buffalo has been impressive with Allen.
And when you factor in drafting CeeDee this year it has forced us to invest another #1 pick in him to fix Cobbs departure in 2019.
Quite a domino effect leaving me thinking we should have re-signed him thus needing not to reinvest a #1 pick in CeeDee to repair the damage at slot.
So 2 1st Rd picks in 2018 and again in 2019 that maybe should have been used on defense might have left us way better off.
But then again in the old Garrett regime, no matter what we did under Marrinelli and his limitations with Richard we could not draft defense at all (ie Trystan Hill and Taco Charlton high pick failures.)
So my point is as insistent as we all are in supporting our positions on player decisions we have made decisions that left us looking a little lacking.
Can we avoid that going forward with McCarthy?
I certainly hope so because we can not keep replacing missed players with trades and #1 picks.
And we can not win with guys like Dalton Smith and Gerald McCoy and Ha Ha Clinton Dix who are past their prime bodies to patch the mistakes.
Thoughts?
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