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Originally Posted by mcaj22
Sometimes this completely backfires and pretty much ruins the season or at least becomes a huge liability when it fails:
Example: David Amerson
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The key is to not depend on those players. Only acquire them, throw them in the competition mix, and see what happens.
Erving and Ragland were post-training camp trades. While the positions they played weren't exactly loaded with talent (OL depth and ILB), they were cheap acquisitions that, if they failed, wouldn't **** us over any worse than what we had before they were acquired.
The Amerson story is just a ****ing weird one. He was signed pre-free agency because he was cut by his previous team. This was before the Alex Smith and Marcus Peters trades, so while it may have been the plan all along for us to acquire a starting CB by trading Smith while also getting rid of Peters, I'm pretty sure the move started out as, "Well, let's see what happens." But then we stood pat on the other free agency CBs... we didn't try to bring in other cheap reclamation project guys, and we decided we weren't desperate enough in training camp to sign Bashaud Breeland. And then our idiot GM took a hard pass until the 6th round on all the CB talent in the draft.