(01-28-2023, 04:18 PM)IKhan't Wrote: IMO, Baalke is deserving of all the criticism he gets. Yes, we improved, but not nearly as much as we should have. Drafting Travon Walker over "Sauce" Gardner or Aiden Hutchinson was completely ridiculous and trading back up into round 1 to take an off the ball linebacker when you already signed a premier free agent at the position and then using a 3rd round pick to take yet another off the ball linebacker still makes absolutely no sense to me. To make matters even worse, he overspent in free agency and now we have to make some costly cuts to be able to keep our best free agent signing (Engram,) who only got a 1 year deal. Meanwhile, a player like Scherff got a huge deal even though he is on the downside of his career is taking up a huge chunk of cap space despite being a disappointment. I am not, nor will I ever be a Baalke fan. I think we'd likely be better off without him.

We made it to the divisional round in the playoffs. Where do you think we should have been in the first year with the new HC?  There has never been a corner selected 1st overall or even 2nd overall, so that wasnt going to happen. You are the same guy that would of passed up Patrick Willis, Kuechly, Ray Lewis, Urlacher, etc. Him overspending if FA is one of the biggest reasons we made it as far as we did, they were all huge parts to our season run to the playoffs.  Hindsight 20/20 with Scherff being banged up a lot of the year, you are probably the same person that loved the signing and now being that he had a down year act like you disliked it.   If Baalke is the GM when we win the SB you wont be a Baalke fan?  A lot of [BLEEP] in the post lol

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