As for Baalke, the proof will be in the pudding but i quite like what he's done this off-season .... 


He had the big spending spree last season and did pretty well. This season he's had to change tack and address things a slightly different way and Id say I think he's made a pretty decent hash of it all told. There wasn't huge cap space there, but he's restructured, kept a large number of the players Pederson presumably wanted to keep, waited to make use of the small amount of funds he had on two or three smart moves which look like offering sensible small improvements (especially Johnson and Campbell if he signs) and the thing I really like is he's clearly had a plan in terms of what he's prepared to pay. We'd all have liked to keep Key and probably Taylor but it wasn't going to happen so he's banked his comp picks and moved on, something more productive franchises have been doing for years. Sounds easy but it would have been really tempting to put a few million more into especially Key (and popular) or doing something silly with Taylor and ending up boxing his options.

Cast adrift on the ocean waves of free agency, previous Jags front offices might've seen the sea water coming over the sides of the ship ... and drilled a hole in the hull to let it out 

It's nice to see a mix of FO and senior coaches who seem finally to be in lockstep and have a clear and relatively simple idea of how they'd like to go from A to B ... Without detouring through X, changing stations at Y and putting the car through two fences and a tree at Z along the way.

I've laboured my point on other threads so I won't do it here too but his next challenge up is the draft and if he can pull out a couple of good starters and a good contributor or too as well i'd say most reasonable folk would be hard pushed not to say Baalke would have done a nice job this offseason. All eyes towards round one and I wish him well with it, hope he can nail it!

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