(01-10-2025, 09:57 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(01-10-2025, 09:14 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: 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? 
  

So if the bolded is true, what does Baalke do around here?

He doesn't coach. He doesn't pick the players.

If that's actually a serious question - I'm wasting my keystrokes here. 

I'm sure you have some inkling of what he does. 

He manages an entire staff of personnel people that research prospects as well as pro players who may be available in the short or long term - and these employees also help him register and archive the progress of his acquisitions.
 He directs an office full of number crunchers that help him navigate constantly ongoing contract work and cap management. He does have LOTS to do with picking players - even if Khan most recently gave his past two coaches deference over the GM. It's a major process and the final decisions are only one part of it. 

Don't be naive, man. I know you're smarter than that. 

I want a better guy in his shoes as much as most fans, but I don't try to paint the guy as some useless figurehead with clipped wings.  He's done plenty of worthwhile work between being part of some bad picks and signings.

Why do fans have such a hard time objectively criticizing this guy? 
It's weird. You don't have to invent bull [BLEEP] to find his faults.

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