Fangio not mincing words about Floyd.

Given what we now know about McPhee we can also see that the need for a pass rusher was greater than the need for a LT.  Especially one who'd collected some black marks prior to the draft that had other teams downgrading him or taking him off their boards entirely.

What I want to address is much the same thing I just did about Kevin White.

No matter how much talent or potential a player may have his availability to play every week outstrips even that.  I've been a semi-pro musician most of my life and over the years I've seen some gorgeous guitars I'd have loved to have owned and played.  But if they can't be set up and adjusted properly to play them or won't stay in tune when I'm on stage they're useless to me.  I buy them to play not just to display.

At a certain point in time players who've been highly drafted like White and Floyd need to understand they're not in college any longer and like Vic Fangio said, they're playing with the big boys now.  They're playing against experienced players.  Men who may be nearly as good or even better than they are.  So "Show Time" and the "Underwear Olympics" are over now.  Now it's time to suck it up and prove they can play some football at the NFL level.

Eventually we have to stop coddling these guys and just put them out there to succeed or fail and adjust from there.  As long as they're being sheltered on the bench or the weekly injury report we're never gonna know whether they can play well at this level or not.  I honestly can't see the value of mickey mousing around with one more 1st round pick for 3 or 4 years like we did with Shea McClellin.

If Floyd was drafted to be an edge rusher then put him out there on passing downs and let's find out whether he is or he isn't.  I'd think they'd want to know that much sooner than we did with McClellin.  He's not gonna get any better by not playing.