(08-29-2022, 04:40 PM)TheDuke007 Wrote:

(08-29-2022, 04:14 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote: First of all, they were 11-4-1 in Yr 2 above.  That year, they went to the Super Bowl.

Per Wikipedia, "In January 2012, Baalke was named PFWA Executive of the Year for the 2011 season, after being credited for transforming a 6–10 team into a 13–3 team in his first season as general manager.[6] The next month he received a contract extension through 2016."

So, he got them primed to compete for, and get to, the Super Bowl.  After that, per Wikipedia "After a 2014 season filled with reports that Baalke and then-49ers coach Jim Harbaugh had been clashing, the 49ers parted ways with Harbaugh and promoted defensive line coach Jim Tomsula to the head coaching position."

So, they fired Harbaugh.  Why not Baalke, if he was such a big problem?  Harbaugh has since been found to be a divisive 'my way or the highway, ego-driven' coach, much like Meyer was.  That's a big reason why he and Kelly returned to college coaching, and why Meyer will eventually, There are parallels here.

Finally, he was fired with Chip Kelly, another allegedly 'difficult' coach to work with (remember the racist allegations made against him by his own players in Philly? along with the 'smartest guy in the room' syndrome, which is fine, but its how you display it).  Baalke's contract had been fulfilled.  In that case, its natural to move on from the Coach/GM package.

So, the 'trend' I see is that he's gotten saddled with either lousy or megalomaniacal coaches (with Meyer, both attributes apply).

If he can partner effectively with Pederson to get this team to a SB as quickly as he did with SF, I'll take that any day over what we've had here over the last 22 years.

His early teams did well largely because of players he inherited.  The more he made personnel moves, the more the team went downhill.

Yeah key personnel move being Kap. It was all downhill after that one 12-4 year.

Baalke was in the 9ers org since 05 making personnel moves and decisions. I'm not saying he's great, will be great or whatever.

But this internet message board mob is plainly idiotic sometimes with their revisionist history. 9ers had good players. They then relied heavily on a gimmicky QB, then when he got hurt/committed career suicide and the turmoil with the HC happened and the following carousel its only a matter of time before the GM gets shown the door.

He had a solid run in SF. That's all we need from him. Get some good pieces over a few off seasons, Doug and Trev should carry us the rest of the way. Personally I think he's doing pretty good so far considering. And what happened in SF 10 years ago matters very little at this point.

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