(01-08-2025, 10:02 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(01-08-2025, 09:50 AM)Mikey Wrote: Took the second option, maybe he just likes to build with a heap of late bloomers, but with TLaw's deal still being relatively cheap, fans and team (I surmise) sick of the perpetual ineptitude, I want him to have a sense of urgency. Build for today, not two years from today. Get guys who are going to yield results and get us in the postseason reliably. Use your cap room and draft capital in a way that makes sense - patch where patches are the best option, draft where value fits.

Last year was a double punch in the gut, we whiffed bad in FA and frittered away picks in an OL-heavy darft class, only to see the offense appear underprepared and for Trevor to again struggle through injury.

I'm curious to see who of the HC candidates will or will not work with him.  This could be a costly decision for Shad.

I think Mike Vrabel, Ben Johnson and Kellen Moore would potentially steer clear from here. Which should bother him. Vrabel being the defensive version of Pederson, minus the actual Superbowl Cinderella win. Ben due to coming from and currently working within a great culture in Detroit. Kellen because he has an interesting background of success with everywhere he's worked.

I think Vrabel has ties obviously to New England and perhaps Vegas with Brady there, but I could absolutely see him taking this job.  I get the sense he wants full power and thought he had earned it in tackland but had the rug pulled out from underneath him.  He could view Baalke's current stature here as a means of coming in with essentially full control or perhaps having it a year from now here.  And he'd get the opportunity to shove it to Amy Strunk Adams twice a year.  I wouldn't rule him out.

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