(02-01-2022, 03:02 PM)Caldrac Wrote:

(02-01-2022, 02:38 PM)Upper Wrote: It could work, but I think OC is going to be the most important job on the team considering Trevor and all...and the names that been thrown out as candidates for that are extremely underwhelming. Pray new candidates pop up.

Who has come up so far? I can tell you I don't like Nagy. I do like Kubiak though, if he's out there for some reason. My thoughts though is that as long as Pederson or Leftwich are dialed in with the day-to-day flow that the OC's style should correlate to what either of those two are looking for.

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(02-01-2022, 02:55 PM)tomfin2022 Wrote: The more I think about this, the more I don’t like it.  Pederson/Spielman and go from there?  I’m in.

Baalke interviewing Bisaccia and Fangio for coordinator positions, then Shad hiring a VP to  curb Baalke’s power so that Pederson will agree to become head coach after a second interview today?  No.  There’s a word that keeps popping up during this little adventure in different articles  I’ve read concerning what works when putting a front office and coaching staff together, and that word is “alignment”.  At the moment, this is NOT alignment.

This isn’t organic.  It’s forced.

I think if it's Spielman and Pederson? Baalke is demoted. It's then up to Spielman and Pederson to resolve any of the coaching decisions and have final say in personnel decisions. 

Baalke I legitimately believe has to be maintained now this late into the process because you need him for current insights on this roster and you're going to need him as far as anything moving forward with the scouting department and the potential cap cutting or cap addition transactions that need to take place in about six weeks. 

He did just enough to hang on. Although, a lot of that can be credited to Khan's unwillingness to start clean. As he has shown historically since he took over.

Kubiak hasn't coached in a few years, he's had a few health scares involving seizures or heart trouble while a head coach. Maybe the OC gig is less stress, but I'd question whether his scheme has grown stale over the years, or if he's even looking to get back into this level of stress.

I think if you bring in someone who's been working in a front office, they have done homework on the prospects, or a number of the existing scouts can be retained or brought with them from their old job to ensure that you're not starting from scratch. Baalke will probably still be around, but not necessarily for fear of starting the scouting process over.

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