Steelers' DeCastro struggling physically

No seriously......

It's not about knowing more than AJ and his staff and jumping to extreme conclusions that nobody suggested to support a weak argument is not gonna be effective here.

Suggesting none of us could get this more right than AJ and his staff is silly because we've gotten it right twice in recent years with Waters and Byrd and AJ and his staff have gotten it wrong.

The facts say we could very well know better than them on this particular issue.....because we have in the past on more than one occasion.

They are simply taking a gamble that they are right this time and it might turn out to be a valuable pick.....but that won't ever make it a wise pick. At best it could become a stupid pick that worked out.

Some of us believe taking an able bodied player works more often....so by law of averages and any other measurable worth mentioning....selecting an UN-injured player was and is the wiser choice.

If you can refute that with any reasonable assertion......please go right ahead.

But remember....getting paid for your football opinion doesn't automatically make it a better opinion! (see Matt Millen)

It's the same shit with his trade-ups

We don't need to know the value of players on the Chargers' board. We just need to ask this simple question...

On your list, is the value of the player you like so much higher than the NEXT player's value that it warrants the move you make to get him? With Troutman, what the Chargers are saying (seems without knowing it), is that he is so much more valuable than every other guard (or player) they had on their board (even though the NFL rankings say otherwise), that it warranted picking him there. Keep in mind, the NFL rankings were based on him being HEALTHY! That means the Chargers had a guy seen by NFL rankings as less than others while healthy, as impossibly more valuable.

I think I made this complicated...oh well. lol

I know more math, philosophy, psychology, chess and poker than AJ. That's just the shit I know I know more of than he does

You always complicate shit! LOL

Thanks, glad you finally came around

His last great draft was when he had help and wasn't the only one pulling the trigger, therefore making it not technically "his". Love the monkey with a dart comment. One could easily argue that this year he finally gave up his old strategies and picked the best player available at the positions we needed, rather than his old "diamond in the rough" strategies that usually flamed out.

You did kinda muddy up the water a bit!!!

AJ has done a poor job in recent seasons and our struggles to even compete for the division should make anybody step back and question the wisdom of our football brain trust. He's well beyond the"In AJ We Trust" days!

His major change in free agency philosophy might actually give us a chance to compete this season....so even he understood changes that many of us had been calling for over years were finally due.

We have so many players that are marginally talented after taking broken players like Waters and Byrd, unknown quantities like Martin and English, seemingly lower rated players that we took too high like Buster and Hester, hanging on to guys that have produced too little like Castillo and Clary, and letting major talents go on to star on other teams like Turner, Sproles, Tolbert, and now VJ.....when we absolutely needed those guys:

Turner should have taken over for LT. It would have been hard to keep two top RBs with LT's now very infamous locker-room attitude, but we should have done it anyway. Having Turner would have made the Ryan Mathews pick a top defender instead....like maybe Earl Thomas...pro-bowl safety for Seattle.

Sproles gets mentioned in games he's not even in by announcers trying to describe the role smaller faster players that are play-makers out of the backfield are taking.....that's how good that guy is and anybody that doesn't think we missed his type of game-breaking play-making is just nuts!

I was watching the Carolina game the other night and Stewart got hurt and Tolbert came in and started doing what he did for us and I was thinking how much of a security blanket he was for us when Mathews got hurt and how he's that for Carolina now. They will be fine with him and Williams. How were we treating him and his family that he didn't want to stay in a nice city like SD for a million more dollars?

OK...was it just me thinking there is no way a motivated VJ doesn't make a play on a couple of those balls that Rivers threw...especially the first INT. We treated him like a red-headed step-child and acted like he was suppose to put himself in harm's way for us last season when he knew he was gonna get paid properly elsewhere.


Just about everybody on this site that posts regularly about football could have made better moves. OTF could have managed the chargers better as a Turds fan!!!