(12-08-2020, 12:41 PM)Kane Wrote:

(12-08-2020, 10:45 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: When TC was hired I expressed my concern about his overreaching control freak tendencies. 

Then he wanted to "win lunch" and I slowly started to come around to thinking maybe this was the discipline the young roster needed. 

Should have stuck with my gut instinct. 

He set this team back 3 years (or more) in roster development.

Vic Ketchman talked about this a few Ask Vic's ago.
He said TC was awful as a personnel manager during his tenure as HC/GM the first go round. Was a great coach though. It made no sense to bring him back as de facto GM and would have been a better hire as HC.

Hindsight and all but kinda makes sense. He could have brought that fiery "on time is 10 minutes late" attitude and still attracted some of the veterans he did without doing his usual kill the cap stuff. Although, it seems his fiery stuff is what drove away certain players, so Ramsey and Yan probably still walk...

But I wonder, what if we had fired everyone and hired a different GM and Coughlin came back as HC only.
How much different could it have been.... Possibly not at all but Vic made a good point that the thing he was the worst at during round 1 here is what we brought him back to be. Bit of a head scratcher.