Front office 2018 naughty/nice assessment

[_sturt_]

Now that the regular season is practically done, what can we say about their decision-making? Did they make the right calls overall in the draft? Were there any FAs they should have sought but didn't? Did they make any clearly bad roster decisions? Does 2018 make-up for the horrendous 2017 decision-making?

 

[Carson]

Big win with Maher over Bailey

Signing Antwaun Woods

Drafting LVE

 

[blueblood70]

first 8 naughty second 8 nice

 

[QuincyCarterEra]

Nice:
Richard hiring
Joe Thomas, XSF, Looney, and Woods signings
The draft
Cooper trade

Naughty:
Paul Alexander hire
Hurns signing
Keeping Linehan
Jihad Ward trade
Not addressing lack of offensive weapons sooner

 

[_sturt_]

Twenty minutes later and a few posts into it, anyone notice that two of the most discussed decisions of this year haven't even been brought up yet?

 

[jazzcat22]

Items to add.

Pro Mid season moves.

Amari Cooper trade.
Fire OL coach, promote from within, and bringing in Houck as an consultant

Other items
signing Su'a-filo after the 1st few games.
Not giving in to Seattle's demands for ET, therefore we would not have traded for Cooper.


Con mid season
Not firing Linehan

 

[acr731]

Twenty minutes later and a few posts into it, anyone notice that two of the most discussed decisions of this year haven't even been brought up yet?

What, keeping Garrett on the payroll? Definitely the worst decision of all.

 

[gimmesix]

Nice:
Richard hiring
Joe Thomas, XSF, Looney, and Woods signings
The draft
Cooper trade

Naughty:
Paul Alexander hire
Hurns signing
Keeping Linehan
Jihad Ward trade
Not addressing lack of offensive weapons sooner

Funny thing with Ward is that after he left here, he had three sacks in six games with Indy before going on IR. It's like the light bulb finally turned on. Switzer also hasn't been terrible in Pittsburgh, so it looks like our front office at least did recognize that they had some talent.

 

[Bobhaze]

My philosophy is to never judge a season’s decisions until the season is over.

If this team has a deep playoff run or even wins the SB, then yeah, brilliant move. If this team is “one and done” in the playoffs, the decision has much less shine to it. Let’s see what this team does in the playoffs before declaring anything.

 

[_sturt_]

Items to add.

Pro Mid season moves.

Amari Cooper trade.
Fire OL coach, promote from within, and bringing in Houck as an consultant

Other items
signing Su'a-filo after the 1st few games.
Not giving in to Seattle's demands for ET, therefore we would not have traded for Cooper.


Con mid season
Not firing Linehan

Earl Thomas was the front-and-center issue that many of us... me included... were talking about for most of the off-season.

That's one.

Still chuckling to myself that the other big-deal decision has gotten nary a word.

 

[jazzcat22]

Earl Thomas was the front-and-center issue that many of us... me included... were talking about for most of the off-season.

That's one.

Still chuckling to myself that the other big-deal decision has gotten nary a word.

Drafting LVE over Ridley?

And therefore taking Gallup in the 3rd.

 

[_sturt_]

This was the bombshell decision that led to the decisions you're citing, jazz.

 

[_sturt_]

Okay, here's mine...

Nice
1) Continuing to keep faith in Gregory's progress
2) Cutting Dez
3) Keeping faith in Xavier
4) Not trading 2018 or 2019 2nd for ET
5-9) Good-to-excellent first 5 2018 draft picks: LVE, Connor, Gallup, Armstrong, Schultz
10) Trading 2019 1st for Amari
11) Signing Maher, cutting Bailey
12) Signing Sua-filo

Naughty
1) Failing to anticipate the potential impact if Fred went down, which he did
2) Failing to give Sua-filo significant snaps earlier in the season
3) Lack of any move at TE that might have substantially improved the position