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This FO made gambles that we couldn't afford

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After the 2007 season we were in a bad place. We had a QB that needed surgery and two straight years of missing the playoffs going 8-8 and 7-9. During the 2007 season there was a period where we got demolished for 5 straight games.

But during the draft that year they did something that they rarely do. They got ballsy and made moves to get two difference makers at the top of the draft. Jeff Otah and Jonathan Stewart seemed to be just what this team needed to get back on the Super Bowl hunt. 2008 was a great year as we went 12-4 and won the division. Yet lost in all of this was that our defense was terrible at the end and we oftentimes won despite our QB and not because of him. Well it caught up with us when we faced a hungrier team in the playoffs and our QB that had been merely a game manager to that point imploded and sent our season down the drain.

But what happened next was an even WORSE atrocity than Delhomme's piss poor play during the final game. Three moves were taken during the offseason that were selfish and IMO irresponsible by the FO. Not only did they sign an aging QB that hadn't had a decent playoff run since 2005. Not only did they trade away a future 1st rounder for a situational pass rusher. They also failed YET AGAIN to find a competent replacement for the QB that had just had a meltdown in front of their own eyes.

Hurney and Fox made the decision that instead of trying to develop a QB (where they knew a losing season was probable) they would try to delay the inevitable to have one last shot. In the process they have crippled us for who knows how many years. They looked after their own self interests when at the end of last year and the year before it was clear an upgrade needed to happen. They have let coordinators take the blame for their bad decisions and now we just have a whole new crop in there to take the blame...

Our offensive struggles are not Jeff Davidson's fault. Our defensive struggles are not the fault of Julius Peppers or Ron Meeks. If you want to know the guys directly responsible for always coming up short look at John Fox and Marty Hurney. Hopefully both will be replaced by the one with the chin.

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