I feel like I’m the only one that isn’t totally hating Poles yet. The Claypool trade was bad for sure, and spending a lot of money at the LB position doesn’t move the needle a ton, but we still have lots of cap space so fine. Other than that I don’t think he’s had any truly terrible misses honestly.
Poles traded away our star LB, however he didn’t really want to re-sign with us anyways, so fine. Then he goes and makes a very good trade to give Fields some weapons and a tackle with their top pick to see if Fields is the guy. Turns out he’s not. Sucks, but ok at least Poles gave him a chance. So then what, he trades for a very solid DL to help take the load off our promising young secondary that he drafted. We’ll see how that pans out, but there’s not a star DL in this draft so he traded for proven talent, albeit for a 2nd round pick. But we still have two picks in the 1st so as of right now I like it.
He also threw some flyers at Dexter and Pickens to try to boost our DL. We could’ve overpaid for someone last offseason but I’m glad Poles is staying disciplined.
Assuming we keep JJ then his moves are making more sense to me as it keeps going. I just feel like people are picking apart his recent moves because they’re looking at them individually and in a short-term view (e.g, “we suck why are we buyers at the deadline when we could use that lock for the future!?!”) rather than stepping back and looking at the bigger picture of what he’s done.
I feel like I’m the only one that isn’t totally hating Poles yet. The Claypool trade was bad for sure, and spending a lot of money at the LB position doesn’t move the needle a ton, but we still have lots of cap space so fine. Other than that I don’t think he’s had any truly terrible misses honestly.
Poles traded away our star LB, however he didn’t really want to re-sign with us anyways, so fine. Then he goes and makes a very good trade to give Fields some weapons and a tackle with their top pick to see if Fields is the guy. Turns out he’s not. Sucks, but ok at least Poles gave him a chance. So then what, he trades for a very solid DL to help take the load off our promising young secondary that he drafted. We’ll see how that pans out, but there’s not a star DL in this draft so he traded for proven talent, albeit for a 2nd round pick. But we still have two picks in the 1st so as of right now I like it. He also threw some flyers at Dexter and Pickens to try to boost our DL. We could’ve overpaid for someone last offseason but I’m glad Poles is staying disciplined.
Assuming we keep JJ then his moves are making more sense to me as it keeps going. I just feel like people are picking apart his recent moves because they’re looking at them individually and in a short-term view (e.g, “we suck why are we buyers at the deadline when we could use that lock for the future!?!”) rather than stepping back and looking at the bigger picture of what he’s done.