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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Guapo" data-source="post: 1096588" data-attributes="member: 5830">Sherman was a really good head coach, but an atrocious general manager. He couldn't draft and squandered the cap on terrible free agents (Joe Johnson, etc.). Had he just stuck with coaching, we might have hoisted another trophy.Wolf stocked the cupboards with Wahle & Rivera in the middle along with Clifton & Tauscher at tackle, but then mailed it in with his last draft class in 2001. People forget that Sherman then drafted only 2 OL in his three years as GM - Wells in the 7th and Houghton in the 6th. By the time that Ted Thompson was brought in, you had an aging OL that was eating up a salary cap that had been horribly mismanaged. Sure TT could have done things a little differently but not much differently. Rivera set the record for his contract with Dallas and Wahle wasn't far behind. The Packers were cap-strapped with no quality offensive linemen in the pipeline. TT brought in two cheap guards in O'Dwyer and Klemm, but neither was any good.In 2006, TT was forced to place a heavy emphasis on the interior OL in the draft. Unfortunately the group of Colledge, Spitz, and Moll just weren't any good either. It wasn't until 2008 and 2009 when TT finally found gold in Sitton and Lang.This highlights why you never stop drafting OL to go "all in" at other positions. The game is won in the trenches.</blockquote>

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