(01-20-2021, 02:24 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: I really think he's the interim GM.  There's just not enough time to hire a coaching staff, evaluate the roster, and get into free agency and the draft PLUS go through day after day of interviewing GM candidates.

I think he'll be evaluated after one year and if he doesn't measure up, let go at that time.

That's a bad recipe.

First, all of the other candidates are currently working in an FO in some role, they are not going to be blindsided by the players available in either FA or the darft. It may take some time to fill out their staff, but a lot of that is also going to come from familiar contacts that are also working in some scouting capacity across the league. You're not going to hire a full staff of greenhorns even if you come over from another team.

That brings up a particular fear - if this is an internal hire, how many of our existing scouts and staff from Caldwell's regime are going to be retained? This is where a lot of the heartburn lies.

And if this is just a bandaid, waiting a year to seriously attempt filling the position is a fool's errand - Baalke will likely have used the darft capital that we have presently amassed and a bulk of the cap room to build the team in his (ok, Urbz's) design. You fire him after a year, and want to find candidates who want to sign on to a team that likely already has a young QB, coach (whether good or bad this time next year), and not nearly the flexibility to build a team as you see fit. I guess at this point though, nothing Shad does should surprise us.

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