Warrick Dunn is a big maybe, and his charity work would really help him on that. Otherwise he is just another 10,000 yard back, there are plenty of them out of the HOF.
Hillard, Galloway HOF? come on now…

and do you really want those guys starting one more year? great…what do we do NEXT year? same thing were doing this year! You have to do it man, you have to rebuild…I dont care who you are, what city your in, you have to rebuild when you get old. Remember, those guys were part of that 4 game collapse too!

You listed all of my fustrations……….

I like lists and this was great. Here’s my five:
The Five Worst Decisions of the Raheem Morris Regime, so far:
1. Signing and naming as a starter Byron Leftwich.
2. Signing Mike Nugent.
3. Firing an offensive coordinator 11 days before the start of the regular season and still having a terrible offense.
4. The 2-2-1. Uh, Clifton Smith in at crunch time? Really? He’s a great returner, but has never done a thing at RB.
5. Drafting a QB in the first round and burying him on the depth chart so he gets neither practice reps nor game reps and then expecting him to develop.
What did I miss?

I read a lot of Mike Lombardi at the National Football Post, and I’m usually very impressed. The quality of his Diner Morning News has decreased because he has so many network jobs now, but I still read him. At any rate, he often quotes Bill Walsh, who he worked for and greatly respected, as saying “the quarterback position is the hardest to coach and there are very few coaches who can coach it properly.” That’s a paraphrase. At any rate, I’ve got to agree. Who can really judge what a good quarterback will be? Certainly the Giants, Steelers, and Chargers knew how to draft good ones. The Bengals went through a lot of busts with early first round qb picks (Klingler and Akili Smith) before finding Palmer, and even he’s grossly overrated. Here a few more examples:
1. In the 2007 season, Charlie Frye “won” the quarterback battle, was benched after one half, traded after the game, and the guy who lost the competition went on to win 10 games.
2. Kurt Warner was a career bench warmer until Trent Green blew out his knee. How come the coach couldn’t see in practice that Warner was a Super Bowl winner?
3. Tom Brady started the 2002 season on the bench. He took over after game 2 and led the team to a Super Bowl. How come the coaches couldn’t see in practice that he was better than Bledsoe?
4. Shaun Hill and Kyle Orton are considered poor quarterbacks and yet they have great winning records. When they win, everyone else gets credit. When Rothlisberger wins leading his team to 13 points, he’s a winner. I don’t understand this double standard.
Overall, the QB position is so subjective, apparently impossible to actually judge in practice. I wasn’t a fan of Leftwich. And who knows with JJ? Drew Brees took four years to actually turn into a decent quarterback and now he’s awesome. Is Josh Freeman our future? I have no idea, it actually is all a crapshoot. Our five year no complaints rule after winning a Super Bowl is over. I hope we get lucky with one of these guys, or it is going to be a long decade.