Chip has made some bad roster moves, but not many. Jackson is obviously debatable, letting go of Maclin obviously was not. I think Chip tried to keep him, just KC was willing to pay more. Is Maclin worth 11 mil? If I recall, the Eagles held the line at 10 mil, the Chiefs upped it. Hindsight, we should have ponied up more.
- McCoy for Alonso - I think this we can mark up as a mistake, but we'll see if Alonso can improve next year. He was horrific this year, but no one saw that coming. I would still be ok with this move if we had used the cap space we saved from McCoy on WR or OL - the fact that makes it so bad is we used it on Murray, which was obviously a mistake.
- The Murray pickup - obviously this was a bad one. No question about that.
- Bradford - gotta mark this up as a good one. Foles has been absolute rubbish for St Louis - which sucks, I was rooting for him to do well, unlike McCoy, he handled being traded with grace and professionalism. I take no personal joy in his failure, but reality is that getting Bradford for a 2nd was a good move. We need to resign him.
- Assorted aging vets let go - almost all of these have proven to be wise moves. Every single again vet, with the possible exception of Trent Cole (32 tackles and 3 sacks is not worth was he was making), has performed poorly.
- Draft picks - this remains to be seen. Agholar has not been good, but we'll see if he can improve - rookie WR's often struggle. No one was slamming the pick when it was made - it wasn't a reach. Hicks was obviously very good. Rowe showed a lot of promise.
Chip as a GM - I'd probably give a C too. Average, and if we chalk this up as rebuilding year, next year is where we'll see if we have improvement or not. Some mistakes, some good moves, some TBD.
Chip as a coach - this honestly is what scares me. Billy Davis needs to be fired, and a competent DC brought in. Can Chip fix this offense? He's supposed to be a football genius junkie - can he sit down this offseason, look at what/why we struggled, and improve? I have no idea.