(01-08-2025, 03:40 PM)Caldrac Wrote:

(01-08-2025, 03:29 PM)rpr52121 Wrote: Devil's advocate given rewatching the press conference, Prisco's interview, and some of the other "reports from the Jags FO" is that Khan has for some time believed the football operation should be HC fronted with them having more power than the GM.

It was Khan's 'master' plan with UM. And now 'supposedly' Doug had more power than Baalke did in the FO/Admin and with Khan. I remember a lot of people waived off the UM draft as all Meyer's credit/fault and say he completely overruled Baalke. Also for example, supposedly Baalke wanted Press gone last year, but Doug supposedly overruled him or won that decision. Even if Baalke won the decision to hire Neilsen, that could have also been a situation with limited options given most people knew Pederson was on a hot seat.

So would Khan firing Doug actually be cutting the head off the "head of the snake" instead of Baalke being the head of that snake that most of us have presumed.  If that is true, perhaps more credit/blame for the draft picks and free agency should go to Doug instead of Baalke?

Even during the press conference yesterday, Khan's response to "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" makes way more sense if Baalke is organizationally more of an operations person/lower case evp with some input but not the person with the most power or always with final say compared to a GM with more traditional linear hierarchal structure that other franchises utilize. That would also make more sense with Khan's answer to if a new coach wanted to replace Baalke, then Shad would listen to him.

Sounds really, really [BLEEP] backwards then, and, probably explains a lot as to why this team has routinely had challenges being consistently good.

True. That set up also explains these elements too:

Ryan Nielsen, not officially fired.
Press Taylor, not officially fired.
Trevor Baalke, not officially fired.

But the new HC would have the ability to come and weigh in on all their jobs possibly replace any/all of them if he can convince Khan. 

That again suggests the most power is actually with the HC.

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