(01-10-2025, 09:14 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: (01-09-2025, 09:19 AM)Mikey Wrote: 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?
Given Shad's preseason comment about the roster, I think he was happy with the direction, regardless of who had final say in who we brought in. I think the half measure is more a sign that there was no solution or adjustment when the plan didn't work. Outside of Darby, what personnel or scheme change did we see as an attempt to improve results?
If TB is this silver-tongued devil that everyone characterizes him to be, I think it's very dangerous giving him a say in who we bring in as HC, if Shad is open to letting the HC influence his GM position. I gotta bad feeling that TB will have an inkling, whether he's in the room or not, whether a candidate has a preference for the current or their own GM, and that's going to be a big part in who TB advocates for as the final decision. Does Shad have the stones to go against achieving consensus?
It's so very awkward, but so very Jaguars. We really do excel at shooting our own feet. It's a miracle we have any toes left at all. Probably the only good thing to come from the Bortles era.
