And this thread is an exxample of people trying to cling to 2001 with all its glory. Jones has not been bad at pretty much anything football related from 2002 onward. Look at the draft, look at free agency and look at his coaching and scout hires.
We are not going to seee stupid trades out of the first to pick backups and scrubs. We are not going to see the Jimmy Johnson pioneered method of saturating a draft for a particular position (Goodrich, Larrimore, and Ross), nor are we going to see him to gross reaching for needs (Pittman, Carver, Carter) as he sets up in free agency to draft for talent.
In 2002, he drafted Williams and Gurode both probowlers as well as picking up Antoniio Bryant who is still playing and Tyson Walter who is still playing. He whiffed on Ross but thats not a bad draft at all. Since then the biggest gaffes in the Parcells era can be laid at the feet of the coach himself with Rogers and Peterman.
people so desperately want to hold onto the idea that what went on almost a decade ago is all of a sudden going to rear its head again. I hope that we have yet another good draft effort, not only so that we have more talent on our roster but also so the armageddonites will finally shut up.
