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Originally posted by SofaKing:Agree, Wasn't he demoted before the start of the season? I thought Al Guido took his old position, and Paraag was focused on some of other projects including still being the cap guru.
He's written some very team friendly contracts. Even when we were pressed up against the cap, he did a great job keeping us out of cap trouble in future seasons. It's not his fault the team stopped adding good players.
He is close to York, and nobody really knows his role in some of the bigger decisions over the years that led to the teams downfall. I'm fine with him if he's just handling the cap and not in Jed's ear when it comes to big organizational decisions.
One thing is for sure, we need a front office shakeup and hire a head of football ops to guide the team.
Originally posted by sacniner:
Originally posted by pasodoc9er:
There is just no way on earth that a foreigner, (even if he was born here), has any business managing a NFL pro football team. Trying to draft players, make trades in FA, based on his fricking computer and its programs is just flat out stupid. He obviously has no feel for football, but puts a lot of faith in that dumb machine in his lap. This is one move that is easy. He is fine for cap issues, but he should NEVER have been given any power or even input as far as players go, FA or Draft, nor should he have anything to do with calling plays. Lock him in a room with his computer and hack out those cap figures. But let him ONLY do that. NOTHING ELSE. Leave that to football guys who grew up with the game from age 5 on. I suspect paraag grew up with European Football,(soccer), and not American Football. Use the computer where indicated...cap figures. But forget having a "furener" making decisions based on what his computer spits out. That is stupid. Just plain stupid.
Now if Bellichek or say Coach Walsh at the end of his career, want to use a computer for football stuff....fine. But please, a guy who didn't wasn't playing football from age 5 on, and I mean American football, not soccer....lock him and his in a closet and have him give you cap numbers. Keep him away from the game, the stadium, the draft, and FAs.. Heck do something like that , and you end up, well....like the Schidt team we currently are fielding. Get rid of paraag. Don't even let him on the football ppty. He can work far away from 49er central. And then keep him there. No more input from paraag. Please.
The first sentence of this post is ignorant and disgusting. First off, he isn't a foreigner because he's brown. He grew up in the Bay Area. Secondly, someone born in a different country can work in an NFL front office.
I highly recommend deleting this garbage.
Originally posted by sacniner:Didn't this dude get "demoted" last year?
Originally posted by TheWooLick:
Originally posted by sacniner:
Didn't this dude get "demoted" last year?
Maybe in the non-football side when he gave up the Team President role but he is the EVP of Football Operations anc Chief Strategy Officer which sound like the top roles in football operatiosn to me. I don't recall them ever saying he was going to lose power in football operations.
Originally posted by sacniner:Originally posted by TheWooLick:Originally posted by sacniner:Didn't this dude get "demoted" last year?
Maybe in the non-football side when he gave up the Team President role but he is the EVP of Football Operations anc Chief Strategy Officer which sound like the top roles in football operatiosn to me. I don't recall them ever saying he was going to lose power in football operations.
Okay, maybe I was mistaken. They made it seem like he would have less influence on the football side of things. Just a PR move obviously.
Originally posted by TheWooLick:
Originally posted by sacniner:
Originally posted by TheWooLick:
Originally posted by sacniner:
Didn't this dude get "demoted" last year?
Maybe in the non-football side when he gave up the Team President role but he is the EVP of Football Operations anc Chief Strategy Officer which sound like the top roles in football operatiosn to me. I don't recall them ever saying he was going to lose power in football operations.
Okay, maybe I was mistaken. They made it seem like he would have less influence on the football side of things. Just a PR move obviously.
That was definitely the narrative on this board but it wasn't the case.
Originally posted by sacniner:
Didn't this dude get "demoted" last year?
Originally posted by SilenceDogood:For those of you saying Paraag pushed Bill Walsh out, you are sadly mistaken. Walsh hired Bain to do the analytics work and was an early mentor of Paraag's. He actively supported his work and ultimately helped Paraag get into Stanford Business School.
Paraag is a smart, even keeled guy who is not the source of the problems in 49er land. Other than maybe Harbaugh, the coaches actually like him and many (including Chip) compliment him publicly.