(01-09-2025, 09:19 AM)Mikey Wrote: (01-08-2025, 10:22 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: 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.
The way I see it is that Khan already had the HC in the drivers seat with Pederson.
They said they were making picks and acquisition decisions "together" but if they fired the HC and not the GM - it points toward the likelihood that the HC was really calling the shots at the end of the day.
Is that backwards to conventional hierarchy? Yes, but it's hardly the first time (or twentieth time) a coach has been handed the keys in the NFL.
Shad clearly blames Doug more than he blames Trent but is also noncommittal about Trent.
Culpability assigned IMO.
Does that make it odd involving Trent in a search for a guy that might want him gone?
Yeah - but he seems to have been living in that reality for the past 4 years anyway - so he knows the deal.
They've put together a great list of coaches and asked to interview all of them.
The only questions now are these:
- Can Khan+Baalke+Waugh+the rest of their committee pick the right guy?
- If Khan is open to a HC suggesting F.O. changes, don't you think he sees he'll have to navigate that carefully in interview sessions that include Baalke? i.e. separate conversations are clearly going to be had with candidates to guage their comfort level working with Trent. Does that have to be a bad thing?
