riggo;1438234 said:
alright. you've officially gone insane.
trung didnt work out. i said it three (3) times now. what question are you talking about?
and as far as davis, check out his page.
http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/1440
1 good season. you're saying the skins should have kept him, regardless of salary, for 1 more year? or are we saying salary is irrelevant. either way, the guy had one year left.
a bit of a stretch to call that a bad move. in fact, it's generally considered a good move to get rid of a player- due a ton of money- who goes on to play one more meaningful season.
What you don't understand Riggo, is a little game called cause and effect.
Now, you guys are always saying you don't have salary cap issues, but you do. You've just acknowledged it. Or can you not see it? You couldn't restructure Davis' deal, so you had to get rid of him. The question I asked and you seem to not be able to answer is about keeping him would you have been better in 2003?
You see, for you, it's about Trung Canidate and him alone. Hey I get that. 1 rushing TD by your lead RB is not much to smile about. I tried to tell several of your fans when it went down. Your better move was to hang onto Davis. But you couldn't. Not wouldn't. Couldn't.
What happened because of it? Well let's see, 6 different QBs threw passes for you in 2003 and you fell from 7-9 to 5-11. That's called a cause and effect. You see, Art was telling me it was addition by subtraction and you have basically ratified that theory. The only problem is, it's wrong. it was subtraction by subtraction.
Please don't try and tell me that Davis' injury in 2004 was forseeable. I'm not stupid. Okay? So while you sit there and chirp one more good year at least have the huevos to admit what caused only one more good year.
So, let's continue with the lesson (cause and effect) shall we? 2003 your running game sucked. Have to fix it for 2004. How did you fix it? Through the Draft? No, you traded for Clinton Portis and made him the highest paid RB in the league. But that wasn't the only price you paid now was it? Come on. It also cost you the top CB on your team and a 2nd round Draft pick. A RB you could have targeted in that draft was Stephen Jackson. Let's look at Jackson side by side with Portis. Virtually dead even in yards and TDs, but he didn't cost a top CB and 50 million dollars. Who has more upside? Who would you gamble on right now for the future? Even without the shoulder injury for Portis I'd take Jackson.
These are called ripples. It's like when you drop a pebble in the water. Just a splash and the pebble is gone, but the ripples go on and on and on. In effect you were still paying for not being able to keep Davis.
So you lost out on Bailey. Got to replace him. In order to do that must sacrifice Arrington. So now let's reach in the Draft, make another bad trade and take McIntosh. But don't play McIntosh.
Do you see what I'm getting at Riggo? Your team is acting like the Little Dutch Boy who plugs the dike with his finger and more and more holes keep popping up and you're running out of fingers. Color it any way you want to. Try and justify it until you really are burgandy. It's still plugging one hole and thinking that the other one that opens up isn't going to be an issue. Then when it is an issue, simply do it again.
Portis gets hurt, waste 2 draft picks on Duckett. You may only see the Portis injury Riggo. I don't. I see Trung Canidate and this silly addition by subtraction theory.
It's a good thing for you you're not a fish. They're dangling a worm on a hook in front of you buddy.
Psst...don't eat the worm. Not even when I make it obvious that's what I'm baiting you to do. Hook, line, and sinker Riggo. You just got reeled in.
