(10-30-2024, 09:53 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(10-30-2024, 09:47 AM)Mikey Wrote: This is a bigger discussion, then.

If the team believes their window is now, hiring a coach that is ill-suited to your roster is counterproductive. If you are built to fit a 3-4 scheme, and hire a 4-3 guy with the expectation of a gradual shift into that scheme, it's on the public-facing faces (coaches, GM, owner) to temper immediate expectation. If you brought in the guy who typically runs 4-3 schemes with the expectation that he could adapt his scheme to fit the roster, that's on the guy if he overpromised or the GM/coach who brought him in to a position for which he was unable to perform.

It's square pegs and round holes all over again. You're setting the GM to fail if you keep changing the wish list up every couple of years to fit your newest coach. If the Gm is part of that hirinng process, they darn sure better be accountable as to why they're making decisions that conflict with past effort.

We have 43 linemen, 34 linebackers, and zone secondary. There's got to be personnel changes to what the coach wants to do, and we have a hodge podge of the wrong vets and too young fits for it to work.