Younger you mean. And significantly cheaper. Also a lot less tread on the tire's.
I have no issues with letting Bark's walk. Well, we should have traded him if that was the plan.
Not nearly younger enough when Schoen’s reasoning for his inaction with Barkley was that he was 27, only to then turn around and draft a rookie replacement who will be 25 before we kick off our next game. All that’s setting aside that the age concern was silly given that tagging Barkley meant just one more year. Or trading him in the middle of another crappy season, be it last year or this year, meant assets. Instead, he just let him walk after another meaningless season. It was the act of a confused and unprepared GM. I still recall the numbnuts look on his face on Hard Knocks when he learned that Philly was signing him and he wasn’t getting the chance to counter that he’d asked Barkley’s agent to give him. He had leverage and the chance to get something, and he just let it slip away. In over his head. And the undeniably smarter GM in Philly snatched Barkley up.
I don’t think I’ve seen Schoen do much of anything that seems smart. The use of assets to trade for the oft-injured Waller, who was so not into football that he then just walked away after another year with injuries. Then the TE that he drafted wasn’t much of a replacement, so he’s had to draft another one.
As his draft classes age, they get worse. A third rounder who has all of five catches this year. A first rounder who consistently gets beat like he stole something. A second round center who’s maybe average. A first rounder who doesn’t even play, as he sits behind a third rounder who can’t block all that well either. Let me stress that again: a top 10 first round pick on the bench. Another first round pick who’s inconsistent, sometimes playing like Thibodeaux, sometimes like Tippytoe. And Schoen seems to forget from time to time that he needs to field a secondary. He has players who leave and then perform well with other teams, and he’s conjured up another such possibility with Ojulari.
I usually don’t make up my mind this quickly on front office guys, but this guy’s record is hard to deny. And he just looked like a vapid frat boy on Hard Knocks.
I like John Mara, but he’s showing that he doesn’t know how to hire good management, all while he’s had his goofy nephew in the personnel department for 10 years. Imagine that resume: ten years in
this personnel department. That should be a jet pack to the unemployment line. But he’s still there.
I don’t know what moves this cast of characters will make in the next 7 months, but I feel like it will get us little improvement in personnel and a new QB whose only meaningful accomplishment will be to tie our hands for a couple more years.
