(01-08-2025, 10:22 AM)NYC4jags 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.

If you believe Pete Prisco and his source in the building - plus Shad Khan's own words at the presser a few days ago - potential HC candidates are being given input into not only F.O. decisions but potentially F.O. personnel changes. 

In other words - the right HC candidate could potentially suggest a change at GM if the braintrust are sold on that HC candidate. 

It's weird and convoluted, but if they want to insure they get all of the guys they like to show up to an HC interview, this is one way to do it.

Convoluted is an understatement.

You involve the GM in the interview process, and ask him to have a say in who we bring in, and we think he'll be on board with anyone who even hints that they have GM replacements in mind?
You sit a candidate across from the current GM and ask them whether they want to work with part of the panel that may hire him, or if he wants to cut his own throat by recommending someone else?

Convoluted indeed. Shad doesn't want to do the dirty work. If you trust TB enough to keep him around, you commit to him. If you don't, why are are you letting him be a part of the process? I remember Johnson saying one of the things he was seeking was a team with unified direction, and this is a heaping helping of red flags in my book regarding unity. It's noncomittal, but maybe Shad is a heckuva salesperson.

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