(03-12-2024, 01:11 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(03-12-2024, 01:06 PM)jaglou53 Wrote: If Baalke is actually able to sign Ridley, he immediately gets A+ grade. If he drafted as well as he handles free agency this team would be in the playoffs every year.
I still don't feel it's the end of the world if he goes to New England since they can keep Zay Jones, but obviously Ridley is the better player.

I think you hit the nail on the head.

I do think Baalke is good in free agency. The problem is that he is the opposite when it comes to drafting. He doesn't understand value, gets too infatuated with traits sometimes and loves drafting positions that are outdated.

• Trent can handle free agency ("pro personnel director") -- he can keep his salary and corner window office.  
  
• Bring back Dave Caldwell to handle rounds 2-7 of the darft ("scouting director"). 
  
• To save money in paying two co-GMs, the fan board here can create a consensus value board to follow in round 1. All round 1 trades up or down must be approved by our appointed representative who will sit in a large seat at the darft-day war room table. A couple darfts ago, the fans here would've darfted Wirfs and Jefferson. We also would've darfted Hutchinson over Walker. As a whole we're going to get it right more often than Caldwell and Baalke. We just can't afford to quit our day jobs to handle scouting the lower rounds.