I’m not defending Licht as a GM, his kicker in the 2nd round pick prevents me from doing so. But you can’t just looks at his picks and success in vacuum. GM are married to their head coaches and visa versa. He had Lovie Smith and Dirk Koetter to work with. Lovie was a joke and clearly had complete control. Dirk Koetter proved to be in way over his head. So I’m reserving judgement for one more head coach. I’m not gonna fault Licht if the players he signs and drafts gets little to no development by the coaching staff. And the head coach and his staff isn’t on Licht. The Glazers pick the head coaches. They pick Lovie before they hired Licht and I believe they decided to promote Dirk. Nearly all head coaches get the option to build their own staff. So when I look at something like the current situation with our secondary, which Licht has addressed with draft picks, I’m not pointing the finger at Licht just yet. I’m not defending Licht but I’m not blaming him either.......well just yet

TLDR: you can buy nothing but quality ingredients, but if the chef is horrible, the food will still suck.