(01-17-2025, 03:23 PM)rfc17 Wrote:

(01-17-2025, 01:22 PM)Jaguar Warrior Wrote: Seems like the 1010 folks are hearing the arrow is pointing towards BJ with Baalke being relegated to another position (failing upwards) or out entirely.

It's so bizarre. As owner if you don't have a problem relegating him to a lesser role, why would you keep him in that position at all? You clearly don't think he is that great if you'd have no issue with him doing less.  

I've generally given Shad the benefit of the doubt. But it just doesn't feel like he wants to put in too much effort finding a GM. Or some kind of EVP to manage the football side

Well the most probable scenarios are likely:

• Shad is operating using the least path of resistance like you are stating.
  
• Shad is a poor trust of character/expertise/reading people and get's hoodwinked by people like Baalke, Caldwell, Meyer, etc.; especially when he believes he has "found his guy"
  
• There is way more going on beyond the scenes as to who is making decisions, the conversations about those decisions, and the timeline of those decisions. 
  

One thing about Shad's press conferences are that, he generally appears to be trying to show confidence and stability. While that could be something you fake if the team is an afterthought for him that he doesn't care about, that scenario seems less likely. Especially given how much effort he has put in with Lamping on the business side of things. 

In the last PC, he seemed to show the most amount of frustration with the questions being asked and "the attitude" that the media was showing him regarding the current announcement. That leads me to believe it is some combination of the 2nd and 3rd but it is impossible to know in what ratio.

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