Re-examining the Johnathan Sullivan pick

Gore said

So who coached Michael Lewis up? He was so bad as returner that he even lost his job as a returner for Rhein Fire when the Saints sent him to the NFLE. Who coached Jake Delhomme up? Who coached Stinchcomb up? Payton when Stinchcomb couldnt even practice? It was the old staff of course. The same staff that believed in Stinch as a RT when people here said he was a bust or a G at best...

And if the coaches were there problem (because they couldn't teach) and not the players then why didnt anyone else coach them up? Why has nobody been able to coach up Sullivan? Or Watson? Or Kenny Smith? Or Hodge? Isn't it obvious that no coach could coach them up even and that not the coaches but the players were the problem?

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You are attributing Haslett's coaching staff's abilty to coach a player up to a special teams returner and a backup QB that was not played here and didn't get a chance until he went to Carolina? Is it a surpise that 2 years prior to injury Stinchcomb couldn't crack the starting lineup, then the 1st year Payton comes in he struggles in camp, gets re-injured, then steps it up?

Like I said in my prior post, there comes a point in a players career where its hard to make that turn. Sullivan and Watson were damaged goods before they went to New England and Buffalo. Their attitudes were what they were and weren't going to make it with another coaching staff. Kenny Smith actually had a chance, and looked good, in Oakland before he got hurt. Hodge was what he was, a very athletic linebacker with a lack of football intelligence.

Like I said, its my opinion, but I believe Haslett's coaching staff would have ruined just about anyone that came here.