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If we go 9-8 are Doug & Baalke done?

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05-16-2024, 07:12 PM

(05-16-2024, 08:14 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:
(05-16-2024, 12:53 AM)MojoKing Wrote: Are we being too spoiled to think if we go 9-8 again that we should fire Doug and Trent? 

I'mma stop you right there with a resounding YES! This franchise, an historically bad one, has had two consecutive statistically winning seasons for the first time in two decades. I don't know where this sense of entitlement came from last year, but these people need to accept that winning in the NFL is hard and it's much easier to go from 9-8 to 3-14 than it is to go to 12-5. Last year is the case study in just how quickly good fortune can collapse in this League with just a few injuries and some unlucky breaks. 

Full transparency, I don't care for how Baalke operates. He makes the easy difficult for no reason other than that it's his personality to do so. I don't like how he drafts. I do like his work in free agency and would suggest that he's over-promoted beyond being Pro Personnel Director. However, we did have a rapid turn around and it seems that Doug can win with the guys Baalke brought in, so I think it's borderline absurd for long time fans of this team to act like we should be winning just because and if we are "only" .500ish everyone needs to be fired. The Basement is calling and it's really easy to fall down those stairs again.
+1

So well said. I don't understand why some fans think we should be winning the SB at the moment. We are a young team that is improving. You see parts of the roster that are and parts that still have a ways to go. This isn't a roster that's in a win now mode and loaded with superstars yet. The AFC is so tough right now and being in the playoff hunt is a tough challenge. There aren't many 'gimme' games at the moment.

It's so much easier to see a good team implode and have to rebuild than just go through 2 years of drafting and FA and suddenly win the SB. The Chiefs, Niners, Eagles, hell even the Cowboys have been incredibly stable organisations building and adding to the roster over a number of years to get to where they are.

I have so much faith in this team and see what we are building and am here for the ride long term.
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RE: If we go 9-8 are Doug & Baalke done? - by JagFan81 - 05-16-2024, 07:12 PM
If we go 9-8 are Doug & Baalke done? - by Caldrac - 05-16-2024, 08:00 PM



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