Hagans is such a disaster – I can’t see what would justify wasting a roster spot on him when Maurice Price sat on the practice squad. I don’t think I was hallucinating during the preseason when Price looked like a pretty excellent rookie receiver.

Also, Where the hell is Will Franklin the last two games? He’s not injured, but I haven’t seen him play at all.

Tynes was nothing special as a kicker but he was better than Novak, and Medlock (probably not Carney, though, who is having a good year so far this year).

Kawika Mitchell was a key component of that Giants defense and he’s helped turn Buffalo’s defense into an outstanding squad this year. Funny…you’d think we might have wanted to keep him since we’re pretty hard up for linebackers right now.

A scout trying to validate his predictions? I could definitely see that.

Make all WRs look great. It’s that Tom guy. He’s good. We should sign him next year. And Moss.

Undersized and part of last years abomination, you could say he was unfairly lumped in with the Turley/Terry losers, or that judging by Cutler pass protection this year, he’s got a solid supporting cast. I was never sold on Wiegmann despite being a great center for the ever shifting Vermeil offenses.

I wish him well, but I’m okay with letting him go with Niswanger looking just as competent in my opinion.

Tynes: Lest we forget the playoff game in Indy? Guy was decent but even in the Green Bay NFC championship he choked on the first one. Any coach in their right mind would have balked on keeping Tynes after that game.

Great…and who did we replace him with?

Mitchell: We knew he was good, we tried to keep him. He wasn’t better than ‘Jared Allen let’s franchise him great,’ but put a guy like Mitchell in defense with Umenyiora and Strahan and of course he’ll get better.

Valid points all…and who did we replace him with?

Carney: He was born in 1964. He’s the kicking equivalent of bringing in Vinny Testeverde. There’s 20 years in the NFL there, not an ‘evaluation’ project so much as a speculation in longevity.

Good point about his age…and who’d we replace him with?

Finally, Belichik, according to Herm complimented Herm on what we’re doing, so of course they want Price, and the whole situation is a Catch-22 of stone throwing.

Did you ever consider that Belichick might have complimented Herm on the job he’s doing because he likes having a more or less guaranteed “W” on his schedule when we face them? After all, Belichick’s got a reputation as being a bit of an asshole :)

Mason Crosby: Drafted after Medlock, Medlock was a UCLA guy, Crosby was at UC Boulder. Carl made a BIG mistake there, BIG, no ifs and or buts, the Chiefs might have a far different attitude if we had the best up and coming kicker in the league for the Herm Edwards points and sound machine.

But the point is, it didn’t work out. Medlock was terrible. And the guy they brought in to replace Medlock (Rayner) was terrible. And the guy we brought in to replace him (Carney) was good, but we decided not to keep him and so the next guy we brought in (Novak…who didn’t outperform Barth) has also been terrible (while Carney’s having a pretty good year). The point being that of course we’d be optimistic if Herm and Carl’s kicker choices had worked out…but they always seem to go with one of the worst available option so I don’t think they deserve a pass for bad luck. They’ve simply made stupid decisions on the kicker situation.

Napoleon Harris: That six year deal was stupid. He’s an aging malcontent who got paid and is content to miss tackles.

Ugh…just, ugh. Nothing else to say there, we’re completely on the same page. Of course since we gave him a big contract, I’m sure that he’ll still be populating our roster until Peterson eventually leaves considering how Peterson hates eating bad contracts.

That one’s more 20/20 hindsight bc the jury is still technically out on his talent, but the development was a definite fustercluck.

I was on the record preseason as saying that Brodie should never have been given the starting QB job without any serious competition being brought in, so technically my opinion wasn’t hindsight :)

You’ve made some good points in this post, but honestly I think that all of them are either valid criticisms of the job Herm and Carl have done or directly lead to valid criticisms of the job Herm and Carl have done.

As far as my frustration with losing Price: I can’t say he’d be an elite WR. But in the preseason games (yeah – against scrubs) I like the way he got open, came back to the ball, caught the ball with his hands, and hung on to the balls that were thrown to him. Traits that I was looking forward to testing in regular season games.

PARADE, appreciate a throttle on the hindsight express. Truth is somewhere in the middle of all these decisions. LIke I’d appreciate having Wilkerson this seaon. (As well as Kawika.) Although I have hopes for DE Johnson and believe he deserves a roster spot. Turk and Hali could improve, but I have to believe Hali is approaching his ceiling of potential.

Price hasn’t proven anything yet. The reason he ended up on the practice squad was because he got injured, just like he did with the last team he was on before we picked him up.

He looked promising in the preseason and I would have liked to see him in a real game, but it is what it is.

I’d rank us third-worst right now. Oakland and St. Louis have us beat. Al Davis is always going to screw things up these days, of course, but there’s also something seriously wrong over in St. Louis…just a screwed up, dysfunctional organization.

But I think we’re solidly third-worst in the NFL right now. Our GM and head coach are terrible.