(05-18-2022, 11:05 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(05-18-2022, 09:54 AM)NewJagsCity Wrote: NOOO!  BAALKE BAD! BAALKE EVIL!  BAALKE SLEPT WITH MY WIFE!  BAAKLE BELIEVE WORLD FLAT!  BAALKE RUIN TEAM THAT WENT TO SUPERBOWL! DONT MATTER THAT MOST TEAM DROP OFF AFTER SB APPEARANCE!  BAALKE GOT SHIFTY EYES AND MOJO FILTER! BAALKE SPEND TOO MUCH ON PASS CATCHER!  GET TORCH AND PITCHFORK!  KILL!  KILL!  KILL!

Baalke was railroaded by Khan (apparently) with the Mayer hire. But he went along with it and that's a strike against him.
He should have been the voice of reason and he wasn't. At least, not enough. I won't judge too harshly as we don't know how it went down exactly.

Baalke was complicit in the 2021 free agency and overall roster rebuild phase and it was not good. The draft looks like it may turn out to be decent - but FA was mostly terrible and there were loads of bad personnel decisions in general. 
He did a very poor job of acclimating a new coach to the roster and the NFL in general. 

All that said - it looks like last year's draft and this offseason's acquisition haul are going to be pretty good in the end. 
If it indeed works out that way, my hat is off to the guy.

I'm keeping an open mind on it. Not assuming he'll fail. But it's still up in the air.

I'm confused. If he was Kahn's employee and Kahn set up the hierarchy with Meyer at the top, why are you saying he was not "enough of a voice of reason", and giving so much blame for his "complicity in 2021 FA", and "not acclimating a new coach"?

I know people have said that Meyer didn't really want to do the job with the going home early stuff, but there is also no real evidence that UM was listening to advice and letting Baalke really run personnel decisions. It just feels like you are blaming him for basically not quitting or threatening to quit in protest due some of the decisions made last year.

I'm not saying he doesn't get some blame for it, but none of us know how any of that really played out, who was really in charge, and how much leverage/power any of the players really had. 

I think my whole view of this is that, Baalke is here for at least 2 full seasons. Yes, he is coming with a ton of baggage and red flags that none of this board would have overlooked. But given the Jags are now stuck with him, framing every move and action that he makes with a very negative lens will just make all us way more frustrated and and hopeless in this franchise. Especially with this team now having one of the best QB prospects in this generation still on a rookie deal, and finally have a coach that is reasonably respected around the league and seems to have X's & O's acumen.

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