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<blockquote data-quote="El Guapo" data-source="post: 539227" data-attributes="member: 5830"><p>One can always look at the losses in the talent evaluation department. They've lost Schneider, Dorsey, and McKenzie to top posts with the Raiders, Chiefs, and Seahawks (any others that I'm missing?). The guy now heading up Thompson's player personnel department is of course Ron Wolf's son, Eliot.</p><p></p><p>If you believe that Schneider, Dorsey, and McKenzie were the core of Thompson's drafting success, then it's not hard to see why our recent drafts may not have been as strong. One theory is that you toss the baby out with the bathwater. However, Thompson was smart enough to surround himself with good talent evaluators in the past so I'm inclined to believe that he can get there again. Of course, it's not something that can be easily evaluated in a year's time - which is admittedly a problem in today's NFL. Most agree that this year was a pretty good draft class again, although still tilted towards the offensive side of the ball. It's easy for arm-chair GMs to sit around and state that we should be doing more of the opposite (free agency) when the current process isn't working. It's harder but more effective to do it Thompson's way, but he's got to get it right.</p><p></p><p>I think that the overall point most of us make is that Thompson deserves a level of trust to rebuild the team, the same way that he did after taking over in 2005. It took five years to go from that point to a SB victory. I'm will to "suffer" and "endure" five more winning seasons of football to get there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="El Guapo, post: 539227, member: 5830"] One can always look at the losses in the talent evaluation department. They've lost Schneider, Dorsey, and McKenzie to top posts with the Raiders, Chiefs, and Seahawks (any others that I'm missing?). The guy now heading up Thompson's player personnel department is of course Ron Wolf's son, Eliot. If you believe that Schneider, Dorsey, and McKenzie were the core of Thompson's drafting success, then it's not hard to see why our recent drafts may not have been as strong. One theory is that you toss the baby out with the bathwater. However, Thompson was smart enough to surround himself with good talent evaluators in the past so I'm inclined to believe that he can get there again. Of course, it's not something that can be easily evaluated in a year's time - which is admittedly a problem in today's NFL. Most agree that this year was a pretty good draft class again, although still tilted towards the offensive side of the ball. It's easy for arm-chair GMs to sit around and state that we should be doing more of the opposite (free agency) when the current process isn't working. It's harder but more effective to do it Thompson's way, but he's got to get it right. I think that the overall point most of us make is that Thompson deserves a level of trust to rebuild the team, the same way that he did after taking over in 2005. It took five years to go from that point to a SB victory. I'm will to "suffer" and "endure" five more winning seasons of football to get there. [/QUOTE]
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