they have devalued him too much for that high of a pick compensation. they took never heard of before the draft not too good daniel manning and made him a corner instead of letting RMJ play last year, i think that may screw them a bit. and it didn’t make sense.

Manning Jr wasn’t starting at CB along with McBride when Vasher and Tillman were both down last year? Instead, they moved Danieal Manning from safety to CB (weakening two positions at once). Danieal got roasted at CB during that stretch.

It was just another on the list of piss poor decisions by our coaching staff last year. Right up there with deciding not to use Hester on kickoffs on opening day in San Diego, because Lovie thought… well, they wont kick to him anyway. What a moron. Even when they don’t kick to him, we get the ball at the 40.

Then earlier of course, comes one of my favorites: dumping our D-Line coach after the Superbowl, because Lovie wanted Mark Anderson to start over Alex Brown, but our old D-Line coach favored Alex (and correctly so). So, Lovie handed Mark Anderson the starting gig… pissed off Alex Brown (who wanted to be traded), and ruined our run defense, until the last quarter of the season when he finally admitted his mistake and returned Alex Brown to the starting line-up. Notice how much better our D played in those final games?

Then again, on opening day in San Diego, our starting DT Dusty D, was for some inexplainable reason playing special teams and blew his knee out… done for the year. Why the hell would Dusty be playing ST, especially when we were counting on him so highly for the season and already worried about our depth at DT?

I could go on and on with this. I’ll stop here. Let’s just say it wasn’t the players who ruined last season (aside from the non motivated $17 mil Cedric Buston)... it was the coaching staff.