I am absolutely thrilled that Brandon Harris got his pink slip. First, of course, because he's terrible. Second, I think this shows that BOB is not beholden to Rick Smith's pride if in fact Rick Smith had anything much to do with the drafts during the Kubiak years. The 2011 draft yielded JJ of course but otherwise was a master class in ineptitude, particularly because they were trying hard to rectify their secondary situation and ended up with a bunch of stiffs, one a second-round stiff. I'm not at all sure that Brooks Reed isn't a stiff, either, but at the end of the day they may find themselves with two second round fails and that simply cannot happen to a good team.
Anyway, Harris is gone and we don't have to watch him suck anymore.
Other teams with pole position on the waiver wire have taken ten players or more which is an incredible number of new guys to inject into a system the week before the season begins. But it could be a very smart thing to do if there's value out there, and there surely will be. I just hope the brain trust sees and identifies it. Really, how they play the waiver wire should tell us an awful lot about whether the tandem of BOB and Rick Smith will be worth a damn going forward.
I'm not demanding that they go out and grab a dozen players you understand, although if there are a dozen guys released better than anyone on our roster (a very real possibility) then I'm ok with the inevitable growing pains. But I don't see how they could fail to upgrade the secondary, ILBs, OT depth and maybe even the kicker.
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08-30-2014, 01:30 AM
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