(12-28-2022, 10:27 AM)scottyg Wrote:

(12-28-2022, 10:00 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: The Russell Wilson thing is perplexing.

There seem to be elements of time taking its toll on the player, and elements of "I just made 250 million and have 8 bathrooms in all three of my houses, this nobody coach can't tell me what to do"

I heard an analyst say that Wilson loves to improvise and leave the scripted play when the first read isn't there.
But that his best production came when OC Schottenheimer forced him to do that much less. 
He doesn't have anyone forcing him to play within the play book and the play book was also suspect this year. 
Now add in that he can't run around and improvise as well as he once did and you arrive at our current state. 

Dude seems to be operating in his own little alternate reality. 

 Strange predicament for the broncos, and now their owner is saying the next HC will report directly to him, not the GM. 
ooooff.

It has never felt so good to have landed a really good QB, a really good coach, and to have an owner who will spend to the cap to get it right.
 Now we just have to manage the cap and TLs next deal. 
World's better than a yet another rebuild.

Our coach reports directly to the owner too... oooofff? 

Maybe Khan went from one of the worst decision makers in ownership to the model for franchises overnight too? lol

I don't think Pederson reports directly to Khan.

This is how I remember it, but if you've got some links to reports that say otherwise, please help me out. 

They have a traditionally hierarchy - Khan simply insisted on being in the loop on personnel decisions after the Coughlin failure and then reiterated that after Meyer's failure. 

Prior to the 2021 season Khan said that Meyer and Baalke would collaborate and that Meyer would ultimately be trusted to have the final word. (but we know that Meyer was in over his head and leaned on Baalke and the scouting dept to some degree in that draft)  

Prior to the 2022 season Khan said that Baalke and Pederson would collaborate but that Khan would "have a voice" in the room. 
I didn't get any implication that Baalke was neutered in any way, but correct me if I'm wrong. 
Baalke's post draft  comments about setting up a board with scouts and then gathering info from Pederson and other coaches on their preferences seemed to confirm this to me. 

Again - I may have missed or forgotten something about their alignment - so maybe you or someone else can find a link.

Regarding Khan's decisions - he has made bad hire after bad hire after bad hire. 
Now he finally got one right. I'm hopeful this is finally the beginning of what he has tried and failed to make happen so many times.

Edit: Found this clip that suggests that Doug and Trent are expected to collaborate but that Doug has more of the final say than Trent in ultimate personnel decisions. What's missing there is the "Doug reports directly to me" part. 

Looking into the broncos owner's comments - it seems he intended to mean something along the same lines. 
In other words - GM/coach collaboration with owner oversight.  However he throws in the "he reports directly to me" part -  and that seems like a different dynamic than what the Jags are doing. 

Maybe it's the same and I'm nitpicking. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1EAoy7Goho

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