(05-18-2022, 02:40 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: To add, Khan’s loyalty to Baalke in the face of the overwhelmingly negative and loud portion of fans against retaining him signal to me that somewhere along the way Baalke really earned Khan’s trust.  I believe he likely advised Khan on some things and Khan went against that advice and watched last year turn into a dumpster fire and feels now like he should’ve listened and can’t let the person who advised him to do otherwise go under these terms.  Speculation sure, but makes a lot more sense to me then the “KhAn iS a MoRoN!  mE SmArTeR dEn HiM!” or “Baalke must have something on him” arguments.

This is what I believe actually occurred.  At the executive level in any corp. there is discussion about direction. Once that is over a decision is made. Kahn made that decision. After that all support that decision whether they agreed or not. Failure to do so gets you a ticket to another job.  He would not be here if he went public and said "I told you so".   Anyone who has been there knows this.  One thing (maybe the only thing) I believe Baalke was able to do is minimize the cap space impact. Can you imagine the cast of characters we would be stuck with now if if Myers was turned totally lose with that cap money?

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