Originally posted by Pollyanna:
Blah blah blah. A bad GM HAS CRIPPLED THE FRANCHISE! All th points you make protray Baalke as a victim.
If he's a victim, then he's a weak GM. His system of choosing players is putting a bunch of serviceable role players at best, or talent lacking backups on the field. His inability to negotiate game changing trades is obvious. Why keep him at all except maube to scout LBs?
No good coah is coming here while he is the weak tit GM. It starts with him
Once again, take the time to read through what I wrote. The problems this franchise have go beyond the GM or the HC and I hope that the ownership can see that, because if they think the way you do, they'll be hiring a new GM and HC.....and then repeating the process just a few years down the road.
You can criticize Baalke, but what makes you think that this ownership is capable of bringing in a competent GM in their current state. Why would a top GM candidate want to work for this team right now.
The answer is that they wouldn't. York and Marathe don't have credibility, the solution that I offered is that they bring in people from the outside to identify someone who does. And then you let that person choose the GM and help in a HC search. That person acts as a buffer, someone that "steadies the ship" and let the coach and GM do their thing without having ownership all over them.