(09-25-2024, 07:55 PM)Caldrac Wrote:

(09-25-2024, 04:59 PM)rpr52121 Wrote: I mean they had Urban Meyer in charge. I'm sure Baalke has some blood on his hands for all that fiasco, but most of that blame goes to Mr. lap dance.

On a more serious note, I agree that rushing Lawrence out there and trading Minshew was short sighted and probably influenced by all the media hype of "generational prospect."

It was a massive mistake. There was no reason to jump the gun and throw him out there. I can't recall all of the coaching candidates the team looked at in 2021, but, the Lions ended up hiring Dan Campbell. The Eagles ended up replacing Doug Pederson that same year with Nick Sirianni. 

There was a 72 hour difference between Pederson being fired by Philadelphia on January 11th and then our announcement of hiring Urban Meyer on the 14th. It's a shame we didn't pause for just a split second longer there as an organization. 

I think today's team would be drastically different had Doug been able to maybe immediately jump from Philadelphia and into this situation with Jacksonville from the very beginning with Minshew and Lawrence. 

I don't know. We'll see what the future holds with fourteen more games to go, but, if Khan goes in a different direction. I just hope like hell he gets rid of everybody, hires a team of experts and lets them decide what's best for his future and this franchise. 

It's bittersweet seeing how fast Washington seems to be on track already and Jayden Daniels ABSOLUTELY looked the part in his Monday Night Football debut. Just looking at their overall staff, they have a great mix of veterans along with guys that recently played the game and are very good at what they do. Look at some of these names on this staff.

HC- Dan Quinn - Former SB caliber HC in ATL
OC- Kliff Kingsbury - Former HC in ARZ
DC- Joe Whitt Jr - Came over from DAL with Quinn, was apart of making Diggs and a few other guys household names in DAL's secondary the last two years
ST- Larry Izzo - Longtime NFL great Special Team's player with MIA and NE
RB/Run Game- Anthony Lynn - Former HC in SD/LAC
LB/Pass Rush- Ryan Kerrigan - Washington Great OLB
DB's- William Gay, good role player with the Steelers
DL- Shariff Floyd and Daryl Tapp

That's a solid little coaching staff that they put together with a lot of recent head coaching experience which helps create accountability on a very manageable level. Some guys are just better specialists or coordinators than they are at trying to tackle the whole damn operation as the head coach.

This makes me so sad.  But yeah, there were so many different ways to go.  And we went the dumbest way.  There's nothing more to say about it.

I guess we just have to look forward and see what happens.  It would have been nice if even in the worst case, we hired Byron as the HC and let him get rid of Baalke...  But this is just lamenting on past failure.  

I just hope Shad recognizes that he needs to look forward and stop look at the past.

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