Expect or optimistically hope? I think most fans understand the risks and reality of player development.
There are posters here who think it's a foregone conclusion that Spriggs is a bust and should be cut.
The Risk and Realities of player development work both ways, though. Yes, many fans tend to forget that most players not taken in rounds 1 and 2 take several years to develop and have their prime in their second/third contracts. Equally, though, when a player does not develop within an environment after a few years that player is unlikely to break through within that same environment. For better or worse, it is usually better for team and player to identify as soon as possible when that scenario is occurring and part ways so that the team can get in new talent and the player can move to a new environment.
With Spriggs, he has not been around long enough to leave the team - it is generally accepted that the timetable for development for a raw O Line prospect is between 2-3 years, and I hope we have him for that duration and hope he improves. I'm practically famous for saying I don't want him on the 53, but that was
only because he was playing
so poorly that I thought if he continued to get worse he could slip through to the PS. People took issue with that, but I still maintain it would have been possible. Part of that, as said in my sig line, though, was that should only be done if keeping him on the 53 required us to cut somebody else who was not drafted as highly but was showing more potential. Nobody behind him has shown that potential, unfortunately, so Spriggs it is.
Again, I hope he improves, but it must be admitted even by the most ardent supporters of Spriggs that the cards do not seem to be in his favor for doing so in Green Bay. He's done almost nothing but get worse.
