(03-04-2022, 07:59 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(03-04-2022, 07:25 AM)SeldomRite Wrote: Anyone who said it can't get worse than Caldwell has a short memory. We had one of the worst GM's of all time immediately before him.

The people that defend Baalke because the 49ers were good when he first became GM there have no idea how the NFL works. How a team does usually has more to do with their veteran players than the guys from the current year's draft. The trajectory of his teams says a lot more than the results in one year, and the trajectory was decidedly downward.

Then the people who condemn Baalke for last year's 3-14 record are also wrong?

Last year shouldn't have much if any bearing on why Baalke should go. The more important reasons would be that he's demonstrated through a significant number of years in the league that he isn't a good talent evaluator and the Jaguars have yet again made the mistake of having a coach and GM on different timelines.

Why is that a problem? Because if Baalke shows he needs to be fired in the next couple of years then the team has a coach going into year two or three and a GM that had nothing to do with hiring him. Every time the team does this it cuts them off from part of the market in their next hire. It also can cause a wasted year or two while the new GM waits to fire the current coach and hire his own guy, who will be a third or fourth choice because no good coaches will come into the situation of working for a GM heading for a pink slip.

They did it the right way when they hired Caldwell and sprinkles, they just made the wrong coaching hire.

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