(01-10-2025, 02:38 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(01-09-2025, 07:42 PM)cland Wrote: Hehe, and so it begins...  

By June of this year, everyone will be back on the Baalke train predicting a 12 win season.

They'll be lucky to win five games in 2025. If he manages to lure Ben Johnson down here, I'll be a bit more modest. They'll be lucky to win seven games. That schedule is not easy, even now, before free agency and the draft, those teams on that schedule already have a very good upward trajectory, are set at the QB position and they have an established identity and defense to work with.

This team is far away from being a divisional winner. I remember everybody got excited about the defensive line last year before training camp started based on how it looked on paper. I was skeptical then. I will continue to remain skeptical until I am given a reason not to be. Our depth is bad. When you get beyond the twenty-two starters on this team, there's a lot to be desired.

We're not deep enough as a team to compete with the middle of the pack of the NFL right now. Based on how the AFC South has been playing patty-cake over the last four years. It wouldn't surprise me if the tacks drafted Cam Ward and won it with 10 games in 2025. It wouldn't surprise me if the clots won it with 9 games in 2025.

Baalke should have been fired this week. It's a shame really. I would have just kept Doug Pederson onboard as well. Let him ride it out with Baalke's contract. That's what I don't get about Khan. He gave Bradley way too much time and then he gets somewhat of a consistent winner, because, I'll be fair here. Doug went 9 - 8, 9 - 8 and then it all fell apart in year three for him.

Maybe you should have given him the mulligan. We might come to regret it now. Especially if you can't lure a guy like Ben Johnson down here. If the best we can do is Brian Flores? That's fine. I'll take it. I was somewhat high on Flores now since around October I think. It's also realistic because of his history and the fact that Baalke has a history and nobody with actual talent or leverage as potential head coach would want to come here. 

So, we'll see. They just need a lot of work though. The secondary is really bad. Even with Campbell. It feels like all four positions should be looked at on the backend. I think the linebacking room is questionable now. We obviously have holes up front and no pass rush rotation. That's a massive [BLEEP] problem, and, the fact that Khan doesn't see anything wrong with that, KNOWING, Baalke played a hand in this defense financially is bothersome.

The offense. Again, running game regressed, the passing game had nobody outside of Brian Thomas Jr. really as a viable threat that could consistently move the needle. This team is not going to magically turn it around in one off season. I just don't see it. Hard to build new culture and shape a new identity when you have the short version of The Tall Man from Phantasm lurking around every corner.

What should have been the deciding factor for Khan is the immediate success of Harbaugh with the Chargers. Think about it. This is the same coach, that, built a pretty respectable team in San Francisco with Baalke in the building and he was ran off due to ego. That team fell apart when he left for Michigan and it took them awhile to rebuild with Lynch and Shanahan. Baalke failed miserably after Harbaugh was ran off. Harbaugh's very same approach to the game that he had over a decade ago is the same approach he has now with the Chargers and that was the difference there. Not Baalke.

Yet another pivotal off season with a gift of a QB handed to this franchise being pissed away because Khan is too chicken [BLEEP] to actually put in the work and time to find a new front office and team builder. It's [BLEEP] pathetic. He's going to let this [BLEEP] clown, linger, ONCE AGAIN, and pull a final farewell [BLEEP] you the way that Dave Caldwell did when he blundered two first round picks in the same draft class.

You watch. Baalke will draft an okay player as a rookie, while we see two or three immediate impact players drafted after his decision is made. We do not have the luxury of waiting until year two, year three to see if his decision was the right one or not. Just stupid...