Time to Look Back at the Rick Smith Drafts

[barrett]

Originally Posted by chuck

Just as damning as the continual poor drafting is the poor cap management that forces the team to lose key contributors most every year.

The total absence of outside pass rush has plagued us for 2 years. It led to he drafting of Clowney which may turn out to be a colossal bust.

And yet when you look at the NFL sack leader boards you find Connor Barwin and Mario Williams in the top 6. So we chose to keep Matt Schaub, Joseph, Cushing, AJ, etc... We pay all of them large amounts of money (or are on the hook for their dead money), while getting little to no production from them, while two guys we drafted are starring for other teams at a position of desperate need for us.

I would agree that extensions/FA have been an even bigger screw up for Smith than the draft.