Our Mistakes....

[lifetimeskin]

From reading earlier posts and threads, it got me thinking of where our actions have really hurt us in the past 5 years. I thought of 4 main categories of issues...

1. Wrong Coaches/Too many
2. Bad Drafts
3. Bad FA acquisitions/trades
4. Lack of stability on the front office

If I was to rank what has hurt us most...

a. We have done an absolutely horrible job in hiring coaches. Marty and specially Spurrier were absolute busts. However, Marty at least had capable assistants, where Spurrier IMO had the league's worst coaching staff, he coudln't have won with the patriots last year.

b. We have made some real blunders in Free Agency and Trades but I don't think that they were dramtically worst than other teams. We have also made some real awsome moves like Randy Thomas and Coles. You can't bat 1000%!

c. Though I have stated previously that I think we have had good drafts, I hold that true for only the first 2 rounds. We have done a horrible job in rounds 3 and later, by either drafting the wrong player or giving the pick away.

d. I am not so sure the overall impact of the revolving front office. However, I do have the highest of respect for Serrato (sp?). His job is to acquire palyers to work within the coaches' system. He has done that with three completely different systems, that of Marty , Spurrier , and now Gibbs. Having said all that, the front office is at fault for the revolving door in the head coaching position.

So I would rank bad coaches/wrong coaches as the main culprit, with the other three items also a problem but at a much lesser degree. This is why Gibbs will make such an immidiate impact, he instantly corrects the main culprit.