(08-28-2022, 06:55 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(08-25-2022, 05:15 PM)iHaunting Raven Wrote: The real answer is we don't know yet.

What has he done? what is our record with him on charge? and just lol at not going after Hendrickson, Trent Williams or a TE last year.

Let's see Trevor, ETN, Campbell, Lloyd, Walker, Fortner and the FAs from this year have good a season before we crown Baalke. Sure it seems most of those will have a good year but they haven't done anything yet.

If we don't know yet, then the answer is still yes, because what would be the justification for the level of attacks that have been aimed at him when we don't know how all this is going to turn out?

You say, "lets see how things turn out before we crown him..." but the question wasn't "should we crown Baalke..."  The question was, have we been too harsh on him.

Of course we have. You said it without saying it. We've been judging him on his past record and experiences. Every situation and circumstance is different. He's not with Harbaugh anymore. He's not with Meyer any more. Those are coaches with big, abrasive personalities, big egos. Peterson isn't any of that. Perhaps Baalke will succeed this time because it's not all about an egomaniacal coach that you might have to go into self-defense mode in order to just survive with. Would anyone here disagree that last year wasn't toxic? And that the last years of Harbaugh in SF were the same? Maybe there will be more coach/GM cooperation this go round. This is still the honeymoon, so it all still looks promising. I know I'm going to probably get roasted on some/all of this opinion, so fire up the grill. None of us really know anything about what went on to cause Baalke's failures in the past, unless you were a fly on the wall in SF and here last year, but i love a good underdog story, and I'm hopeful it happens here with Baalke/Pederson. We've been a laughingstock franchise long enough.

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