This is such a tired topic, in my opinion.

Yeah, Doug clearly decided he wanted to no longer run the offense and he passed that off to his boy. And we all saw how terrible that was, even when we were going 8-3 last year. Additionally, Doug threw his DC under the bus for Neilsen, who was even worse. It was obvious the offense was regressing in 2023. I kept telling folks, and they just ignored it. It was obvious that Doug no longer really wanted to be a HC the way they have in Detriot, Minnesota, LA, Pittsburg, KC, Miami, heck even Philly has a coach that is at least passionate.

The O-Line is bad, but a good HC and a decent OC could have still made this offense look respectable. Not to mention the fact that they could never get Ridley on the right page with what the offense was doing. Not to mention the fact that it took 10 games before Doug and his boy realized that maybe they should give more attention to BTJ. The coaching staff was bad.

But dog gone it, the players Doug got and had to deal with were also sub-par!!!! This was a total complete failure by the GM and the HC!!!! I never defended Baalke, but I put too much hope in Doug. At the end of the day, it was a complete disaster because of the way the franchise is run. The recruiting is bad. The coaching was bad. And we only cut off the tail.

I grew up in NM. There is a certain lizard that lives in the desert. You can catch the lizard by it's tail, and the lizard will willingly let you grab it's tail. So you get the tail, while the lizard runs away. We caught the tail... But we didn't take out the entire lizard. Baalke is about to grow another tail. And the perpetual failure will continue.

Baalke isn't a clown. Baalke is a desert lizard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPoFot82h3Y

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