(01-08-2025, 11:00 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(01-08-2025, 10:07 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: I don't think his talent evaluation in the draft has been horrendous.  It's been average to above average in my opinion and my concern is that we've historically been way below average in the years prior to him being here.  So, it could be and has been a lot worse in my opinion.  I do think the trade back and still landing Brian Thomas move probably saved him.  He had a criticized at the time but ultimately well managed free agency period 3 years ago.  Then we did very little in free agency two years ago.  And finally, he had an objectively poorly managed free agency period last offseason.  It's certainly debatable and I wouldn't have been shocked had he been fired, but I can see the other side of it.  And although those free agents that were brought in contributed to our woes this year, there were many other factors including offensive play design at times with receivers way down the field in the same spot, drops on 3rd down at key moments in games, injuries, some questionable if not bad calls by refs in the early part of the season that absolutely contributed to the final score of a few games, scheme change on defense without all the pieces to properly run it, etc.

Also, a new GM is going to want his guys and would be blowing this roster up.  Some might want that, but I think there are enough good young players already on the roster not to have to or want to do that.  We lost something like 10 one score games.  We're not that far away from being back to where we were at 8-3 playing for the 1 seed a little over a year ago in my opinion.  I think that's largely what Khan is thinking as well.

So you’re team “it was all Doug Pedersons fault”.

No.  I don't want to be rude as I respect your history here, but you can't have fully read and digested my post and still condensed it to that.  I still like Doug even though there are warranted criticisms of how he handled things.  It was a perfect storm of [BLEEP] this past season and someone apparently had to go.  Prior to the news, I said I leaned toward both being retained and a mulligan given for this season though I wouldn't put a ton of confidence behind that statement and wouldn't be shocked either way.  I don't think there is a clear scapegoat for last year.  It was a lot of little [BLEEP] here and there that when added up manifested in the results we ended up getting.

Someone here recently reminded us of Khan's comment regarding "I know who I want to be calling plays" from a year or so ago and then we get the coyness out of Doug this year about who is calling plays knowing full well it was Press.  That kinda jives with how his exit in Philly went.  I don't jump on any speculation as the god's honest truth as many others do, but if you line that comment up with how reality went, it's probable that Pederson was so loyal and committed to his guy that he would defy an owner's desires and then we got the season we got for the multiple reasons I listed above and many more I didn't and he became the fall guy that he was apparently prepared to be given how that scenario played out. Is that any clearer?

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