(09-26-2024, 11:44 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(09-26-2024, 11:34 AM)carp8dm Wrote: I agree with this.  There's no hashing out anything with Doug.  He's gotta go too.  False starts, having delay of games (or having to waste time-outs to avoid delay of games), the inablility to get the play into quickly, and just the overall lack of any development anywhere on the offense is on Doug.  

I hope we can turn this thing around and look like a competent NFL team again, but if we don't.  Doug and his staff should be gone along with Baalke.  No more half measures.

Careful what you ask for. That's why I said, that, the best thing to do would be to sit down and listen in as an owner after you get the bag of [BLEEP] out of the building first with Baalke.

Get him out of the building first. Let the building air out a little bit for a few days, then have the following meeting.

You then sit down with Pederson and Lawrence if you're the Khan's, and you try and talk through what's happened over the last three years. And, again, as I cited above. I am STILL hiring a VP of football operations and I am hiring this person with NO STRINGS ATTACHED. That hire will ultimately have final say in what direction this team goes, which may, or may NOT involve Pederson and his staff. 

I just think, as an owner. I would want to hear out my $275M investment at QB's opinion in a room with a head coach that's at least won a Superbowl ONCE, with a unique QB situation to boot, to try and figure out where things are clearly dysfunctional and where I need to see improvement as an owner moving forward. I want the nitty gritty of it once the dust has settled. 

And that's with Baalke out of the way. I think this is fair and reasonable. All of this takes place in January, shortly after New Year's once, I am assuming, the wheels came off completely or the team managed to fall a little short after being competitive enough towards being in the conversation for 4th seed or 7th seed consideration. 

This gives your next hire at VP a chance to ask around, look at the play off teams that are out there, the coaching staff's, etc. Maybe it's Ben Johnson, maybe it's Bobby Slowik, maybe it's even a group of old heads that you're thinking about between Belichick and Carroll. Maybe it's Vrabel. We don't know yet.

But, you at least do yourself a service from an ownership level and you give yourself an opportunity to hear exactly what your headcoach thinks about your quarterback and what your quarterback thinks about your headcoach that you're fixing to move on from potentially.

The last two off seasons were what most of us would have considered as the most important off seasons in franchise history. Because we knew they were going to double down on Lawrence. And we knew that it was absolutely PARAMOUNT that they had enough pieces up front and around him to succeed. Expectations were through the roof. Khan said it himself.

So, a lot of things need to be brought to light, a lot of things need to be aired out, a lot of good needs to come out of some form of reconciliation.

You made a good point.  If Khan goes this route, I'd want the newly hired VP in on the meeting with Doug and Trevor.  That would be the thing I'd change.  Fire Baalke now, get started on your VP search, hire your VP and then Monday morning after the season is over, call Doug and Trevor into the office for the "interview".

And then go from there.  At this point, I have very little faith in Pederson.  But maybe he can turn things around.  Time will tell.

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