Quote from Paps, “Whatever they turn out to be in the next two or three years, it’s whatever we’re able to develop them into.” That folks, is the scary part. We seem to not have any development program.
Ndamukong Suh
(cally recruit)
Prince Amukamara
(cally recruit)
Philip Dillard
(cally recruit)
Matt O'Hanlon
(cally recruit)
Larry Asante
(cally recruit)
Eric Hagg
(cally recruit)
Jared Crick
(cally recruit)
etc...
Those guys were nothing before Bo came.
The staff can develop talent, when they have it. We're paying for the sins of the 2008 - 2010 classes.
"Can develop talent - when they have it." Huh? So like David? Do you think LD was developed, or already had it? I'd say he already had it. I don't want to take anything away from the development of these players under Bo, but we don't know what they would have been under Cally either. They were young, and Bo got them in their prime. You can't really say this about anyone that he's recruiting and had 5 years to work with though, which is unfortunate.
I'd say Eric Hagg is probably the best example. Don't think he'd be playing in the NFL without Bo and his Peso scheme...then again we have no real way to know that.
All I know is, Bo has not been able to replicate the same development of his recruited players, as he had with Cally's players. It's early. We'll see. But basically 3-4 classes were duds on the defensive side. We'll see how the next 2 or 3 pan out...but you can't blame us for being skeptical with his track record of talent on the D. Do you think he did a good job developing Stafford? Or Rome? Or
A. Green? Or E. Martin? Or
Cooper? All guys that IMO had a higher ceiling than they reached under Bo.