(03-07-2020, 11:14 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(03-06-2020, 07:28 PM)Caldrac Wrote: Coughlin was, once again, brought here BECAUSE Caldwell had failed during his first 5 years here. He deserves some of the blame for his brief role. But ultimately the brunt of this mess falls squarely on the shoulders of Mr. Khan for not getting this [BLEEP] corrected to begin with. 

Typically when your General Manager fails to generate any success at any capacity whether short term or long term? They're shown the door. Especially after the head coach fails and his Quarterback fails. And this is exactly what happened in his case. And yet he was given a free pass when Coughlin was given a role he didn't need to have to begin with. 

Coughlin was never known for personnel decisions nor cap management. Sure, he had an eye for talent at certain positions. Mostly the WR position if we're being honest. And he will always be known as a great football coach despite anyone's views on his "toughness" on players. 

My problem is that people keep saying that 2017 was only three years ago. And that this collapse was unforeseen. And I disagree with that in it's entirety because if you really dissect and look deeper into that season they had it on easy street for the most part. And they still had to pull gimmicks out on Special Teams to barely scrounge up 10 wins to help the offense out. 

As far as Coughlin Vs. The Players and vise versa? There were typically grumblings out of that locker room every year before he arrived in 2017 regarding how players were being used or not used on defense. This carried on throughout 2016, 2017 & 2018. Ramsey always had a mouth and diva personality. Smith went off the deep end. It's not uncommon in the NFL but something is clearly not right with him. 

Fowler Jr. always had issues on and off the field. His maturity was a concern and there's a reason he's not here anymore. And that reason was beyond fair and within reason for him to be shipped off. What really hurt this team was poor management of the veterans they had signed and failing to replace their presence on the football field with adequate talent. 

You can't run off Malik Jackson and "hope" Taven Bryan is the guy. You can't run off guys like Teshaun Gipson and Brandon Church and "hope" Jerod Wilson and Ronnie Harrison are the guys. You can't see a guy like Paul Poszlusny retire and then "hope" a guy like Myles Jack with limited experience at ILB and also relatively young in his career step inside after playing outside and thrive as the general of the defense. 

None of these moves have panned out. But the primary catalyst is and forever will be Dave [BLEEP] Caldwell failing to get his job done to begin with and having forced Khan to make some type of move to improve the team. Simple and plain as that.

Cutting old expensive players who aren't performing anymore or having players retire of their own volition is good management, not bad. The problem with this team is and continues to be the lousy coaching. Jackson played how many more games once he left? Church is where? Gipson had an alright year, but his cap number was huge when they let him go. That's the nature of free agency, you replace the guys you signed two years ago with guys you drafted in the meantime. Sadly the drafting and coaching hire had Coughlin's arthritic fingers all over it and we ended up with good draftees who didn't want to stay and bad draftees we didn't need or who can't replace the guys they were supposed to replace.

Sooooooo we're just going to keep casually glossing over the fact that Coughlin was hired here in the first place because Caldwell had failed miserably at his job to begin with? 

Got it. It was allllllll Coughlin's fault. Getting rid of players while replacing them with inadequate talent is bad management. Maintaining coaches that failed in developing said talent is also bad management. This goes back to Bradley with Caldwell. And now with Marrone & Caldwell being given a pass with Khan's blessing. 

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