I'm going to simply assume at this point that people simply enjoy complaining about Ted Thompson/in general and find expressing their opinion with even a tiny amount of detail regarding what they would do differently is just completely irrational of me. Holy shit, do I need to get on my knees and beg people to tell me who you would have picked, what would we have signed him for/given up for him, and what impact do you think he would have on the team?
Bigby, want to beg with me? Tough crowd, I've never seen anybody so reluctant to express their opinion.
Originally Posted by: Porforis
Porforis, I'm not going to repeat everything I just said in another thread. But I do want to repeat one thing:
There is a difference about pointing out one or two (or even one or two years) of non-acquisitions (the kind of criticism to which your response is on point) and pointing out a sustained period of time of insufficient performance by the GM (where they are not). IMO, uffda's and Dakota's criticisms of Thompson have been primarily of the latter sort.
My primary criticism of Ted, and I think theirs, has never really been "Ted didn't make (or made) this one or two or five acquisitions/draft picks that I thought he should have made (or not have made)." My primary criticism, and theirs, has been that Ted has been GM for a decade and that tenure has been marked by several cases where there has been insufficient improvement over several years running. OL to name one. ILB to name another. Indeed the middle of the field on defense at all levels (NT, ILB, S). And, apropos of this thread in particular, TE.
That kind of thing is what makes Ted just an average-to-okay GM to my mind. I'm not ready to have him be fired quite yet, because for some reason, despite his track record over a decade, I still think he iis *capable of* greatness, and because I don't know anyone who might be available who is. But until he finds a way improve areas of the team that need improvement but without regularly taking a half decade to do so, I'm going to continue to bitch, criticize, and mouth off.
Sorry. 😁
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