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Ramgator
He's a great Coach but since he has been here, very little has come from the Draft, depth wise. There's only so much you can trade for when you have nothing to offer. For such a great Offensive mind, we have had ZERO depth at QB since he has been here. Both Starters were products of others. Snead / McVay have done great at putting together winners. But now the well is BONE dry. If our Youth does not develop, I can see very bad things for a few years and not just this one. Stafford is possibly just ONE more ding to the head away from being done. Fine. Say we tank and get Williams or that guy from NC. Can they play Defense? By the way, AD is closer to the end than beginning. Also.....We are still a one man show at WR. I DO think VJ and others will step up. But till we see it?????
Eff all them Drafts has now shown it's ugly side. With all this said, I still love McVay as our Coach. But we HAVE to find SOMEONE on the staff to evaluate better.
Evaluation is the realm of the GM and scouting side of the business model. When that element is not good enough, the heads that roll are the heads that live on that side of the ledger.
But I think you are onto something here in that our drafting has a ton of room for improvement. To date there are issues in our evaluation processes that obviously need to be fixed, like OL evaluation for example, but those things were never brought to a head because of a top coach and trading draft picks for established players. Now obviously coaches tend to be brought in to work with the scouts, but the bottom line is player evaluation is the realm of Les Snead and his boys.
What this means is that Les might be on the hot seat this year. Largely that's going to depend on the equation of how much we lose, and to what extent draft picks can or cannot affect that. But I think there is a very good chance that we are going to lose roughly half our games. I think Stan is not going to be happy, even though he undoubtedly sees it coming. And that unhappiness will drive a deep look at our efficiency in evaluation.
So the best thing that can happen for Les is this draft class shows well. There is certainly room for that, given early returns on some of these guys. But if you get some injuries here and some camp stars disappearing there, that's not gonna help Les out.
My expectation, which I know won't be popular in this moment, is that Les will be replaced after this season. What he'll need to prevent that is an epic draft return from this class, and while I think it will be his best class I don't know that it will be good enough to do that for him.
