(04-28-2022, 08:37 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(04-27-2022, 06:53 PM)JaggedSioux Wrote: I guess I don't understand how he was supposed to fight against the hire of Meyer.
For starters, how was anyone supposed to predict the complete disaster he was to become? He came in with all the hoopla and the ink on the contract had dried before the red flags started popping up.
I'm guessing Baalke did more to help the organization than we know in mitigating that cesspool of a season.

That's wrong in every sense. He had zero experience at this level; he abandoned his previous two jobs once the heat was catching up to him or he knew the ship was sinking; he apparently did not have a functional knowledge of the players he'd be coaching or coaching against; he did not have any understanding how league operations differed from those of the NCAA, and the list goes on.

I mean, cripes, just go back to the hiring announcement thread and read how many casual fans saw the inevitable coming. It seems that it was pretty darn easy to predict the disaster.
We just weren't distracted by the shiny like our team's owner so often is.

I don't pay as much attention to the college game, so those warning signs eluded me. He wasn't doing anything illegal, though, was he?
Shad probably saw him as a CEO type of coach who had proven his meddle at the college game and that would carry over. I think he wanted to breathe fresh air into the franchise for a quick cultural change, but instead got a crippling dose of Agent Orange.

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