My Definitive Thread on Perpetual Defensive Problems!

LombardiGras said
I actually agree with this point. Loomis is a finance expert, his speciality is how to manipulate the salary cap. Before being promoted to GM his role was to make numbers work, not to make personnel decisions. He does not have the football expertise to build a team. So even though he is the head of these decisions, he has to rely on the input from his subordinates who are more knowledgable about football and player evaluation. And Loomis is head of basketball operations for the Pelicans, so not only is he under-qualified to be an NFL GM, he has another full time job to contend with. Plus the Saint's owner is in no condition to exert influence. Its definitely a weird situation.

He's the interesting thing to that. The guy they were relying on for a lot of those drafts that have gone bad was Ryan Pace. Who is no longer with the team. If you look at the Bears last two drafts since he's been the guy they aren't anything to cry home about.

Our one draft this year trumps anything Pace has done with the bears. I think that says a lot but I think it's being ignored to a point here that we remodeled the entire scouting department and hired Ireland. The 2015 draft was stil using some of Pace's and the old scouts information. The 2016 draft was all the new scouts and Ireland and look how it turned out