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Originally Posted by AvengerRam
What does the lack of a Director of Pro Personnel have to do with losing free agents?
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Great questions. Positive rep points to you.
A team can lose free agents because they don't place high enough value upon them, and therefore are not willing to pay just a few extra dollars necessary to retain them. (a coupla specfic examples are mentioned in the article) and thus without a professional and full time talent evaluator on staff then players will not be valued properly.
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Every team has hits and misses. Nonetheless, fans always seem to think their team is the only one that has drafted "busts" or signed FAs who didn't pan out.
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I agree that every team will have busts. But the Ron Wolf example in the article demonstrates how successful he was with two different teams and how both of those teams struggled when he was not with them. His expertise in evaluating talent worked miracles.
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If you think one Front Office hiring is going to change that, you're kidding yourself.
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No where in the article did I suggest that. I don't think "one" hiring will have immediate results. I think it takes a team of scouts and talent evaluators to be effective. The Jacksonville Jaguar's model, as outlined in the article impressed me. But even this, I don't think would give the Rams overnight success.
Nevertheless I am real excited about having Hazlett as part of the Rams staff, hopefully his experience in evaluating defensive talent will have a positive impact on the team.
I also don't think that the Rams are a lost cause, a few outstanding additions to the Rams defense and I think the Rams will be back in the playoffs, but as a Ram fan, I'm sort of greedy, I hope to see the Rams in the playoffs also in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and beyond.