My, How The Tables Have Turned.

Football is a strange game. It’s not like we can’t make up our minds. Things change in football, and our thoughts have changed with them. I’m sure you’ve also changed your mind about quite a few things.

I’ll just point out that several of the things you ride us for being wrong about I was one of those few who never agreed with the “consensus”… of course, said consensus wasn’t always quite as 100% complete as you thought either.

I didn’t think Jerome would be a superstar, but I DID think he COULD finally “have the lights turn on” in year three. Well he’s still not a superstar but he’s definitely FINALLY had the lights come on. I’ll take it.

I had my doubts about TO, and I definitely didn’t think he was the “key” to get a super bowl. I did think he’d be less destructive to the team than he was tho. I figured maybe by now he finally might have learned… and I figured that even if not, since he was usually OK in the first year elsewhere he’d be OK for one year here too… oops, guess not.

Dunlap was clearly a disappointment? Please don’t make me laugh. There were people who actually thought that? This just in: rookies usually tend to suck. Sure there are exceptions but the majority need a year or two to develop. Dunlap was a rookie. Do the math.

Benson needs more carries? Sorry, nope I wasn’t on that bandwagon. I was on the fire Brat bandwagon for about three years tho. Is that close enough?

I liked JJoe but our defense kinda stank last year. So I wasn’t going to cry in my beer if we lost him. (Plus I don’t really drink beer.) That’s not to say I wouldn’t love to still have him, mind you. But I actually didn’t think he was the key. Leon was.

Zimmer and Marvin. Not really. I think Marvin already pretty much IS the GM he just doesn’t have the title or the pay to go with it. So why bother worrying about it?

About the only one I can really agree is Mike Brown. I still think we’ll be very unlikely to ever win a Super Bowl until after he retires and/or dies. But I always threw out a sheet anchor of “or grows a brain”. Well the results are early, but he might just have managed to do that last one after all. And if so, then congrats, better late than never.

(and I still say many of his bashers were placing too much blame on him for what went wrong then)

But I think many of you were in the same camp. On that same player, I think many have swung much too hard to the other side, into the “he was the devil” territory.

All the other stuff, I took a more pragmatic stance. Smith? Couldn’t yet know, but he didn’t show much going into 2010… but wasn’t that only year 2? Year 1 was a hold out and then a broken foot. wtf? Not the proof of death.

I like Benson. I think he’s okay. He is certainly no Dillon and not even a Rudi Johnson. I do think that if the line were more productive at opening holes he would, of course, have better stats. He isn’t the Barry Sanders improvise type of player.

The rest of it, I kinda mirror what FriarBob just posted.

Because the Carson trade falls in his ignorant lap, we are wrong about the last 20 years and he is an ok GM? You know as well as i do some people in the organization,(Marvin,Katie) had to beg him to sign off on the trade. If he had his way, Carson would still be sitting. The only thing i’m starting to see is maybe he’s letting other people make the decision’s for the good of this team. One trade doesn’t make up for 20 years of being a joke. Andre Smith gets my vote on this one.

We as the opinionated few had our convictions last year “for last year’s team”… We have them now for this years’ team.
Last year
I hated the TO pickup, thought we picked un the wrong BRYANT – Should have been DEZ, thought Andre the giant needed to be let go, and had already felt Palmer was done. And oh yes, can’t leave out BATKOWSKI – I was calling for his head at the start and all season! I still thought Benson was a key component So was I wrong? – Never!

This year – Andre having lost some pounds and acting like he wants to wok is earning hi dough, Simpson – drafting AJ Green sent him a “Step up or step out” message and he has responded by finally learning half of the playbook. Cedric is still a key factor, and as for QB – Thank God for TCU and Oakland! In fact, Oakland 3 times – The dropped Gradkowski in our lap, took the now infamous CP9, er 3 off our hands. and helped secure our future.
Marvin is still the man, Mike Brown is still the owner – Still can do as he damn well pleases.
So again, was I wrong? Even ostensibly? Nah!
She catches me and its DENY, DENY,DENY!!!

the sun shinning once in 21 years isn’t a pattern, only a break in the overcast clouds.