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He mad.

I think everyone would like to salvage the trade because that would be in the franchis's best interest. So, yeah, "for better," hell yeah. "For worse?" Hell no." I don't think David and Dan are willing to sacrifice any more seasons outside of the next one on this experiment, as it can still appear justified. One more season of the same or similar should tell everyone all that everone needs to know.

I agree somewhat, in that we don't know whether Dan is going to work out yet because there hasn't been enough body of work, but I disagree with the sentiment that we have five drafts to judge him on, because we really only have two. Assistants, by their very nature, aren't generally the decision makers, the buck stops with the GM. I have seen it throughout life. An assistants job is exactly that: to assist. Your role as an assistant is to toe the company line, not to make executive decisions. Dan could've been in lock step or philosophically opposed to some of the personnel moves behind the scenes. We will likely never know how much involvement, much less agreement Dan had In those discussions and calculations. That's why I am solely focused on his time as GM. One thing I will say, is that things have improved since Dan took over the job, notwithstanding fundamental personnel challenges we have on the team right now. And let not forget that Morgan took over a train wreck that at least was not fully his making, if at all.

I mean, and I've said it recently, 2024 was Dan's first draft. It was also stunted by the residual effects of the Bryce trade. I think it's kind of cynical to say that the earlier draft was akin to a counterbalance of the later draft. I mean, you have every right to look at it that way, but it would seem to me that you'd put a premium on the improvement from year one to year two. That is certainly evidence of moving in the right direction, even if one considers it modest, or maybe even nominal, improvement (not that I necessarily view it that way). That being said, I don't think it's coincidental that the better draft was with Brandt Tillis. But, Dan hired Brandt Tillis. It's not a stretch to think that he can hire someone else with a similar analytical/PFF background.

He has had emaculate timing and a helluva agent. Eff him however.

UnluckyforUs, I guess... *LOL*

I still say this guy should be on our list:

This doesn't breed optimism.

Honestly, I never thought about the fact that Harbaugh and Payton could've said (or at least thought) that Bryce has to go. At the time, Tepper wasn't going for that, and in general Tepper probably balked at seeding so much power after the Matt Rhule fiasco. In my opinion, he should've been able to see the absolute obvious difference, being that Payton and Harbaugh had had varying degrees of success in the NFL and Matt Rhule had not. I don't think Ben Johnson wanted any piece of Bryce either. You know, if you really think about it, we're still in a similar situation. If we were to axe Canales and force Bryce on the next coach (unless maybe if it were Nick Saban *LOL), then nobody of import will want to take the job. That would be a SMDH type of situation.

Well I guess that I was somewhat unreasonable because I predicted anything from 4-11 wins with 7 being my best guess. We got to 8, and really could've gotten to 11, I believe, if Bryce had actually continued to improve and basically continued where he left off last season. He didn't, and as has become customary, he pretty sh¡t the bed at the beginning of the season, caught a little spark in October, and pretty much played like sh¡t every other week since. In my estimation, Dave hasn't necessarily "earned" anything from where I'm sitting, but I'm not opposed to giving him another year or two based upon the Bryce effect. Canales, to me, seems to be coaching down as opposed to making calls that make sense. If he doesn't feel that Bryce can do the job, then he needs to campaign for a legit backup plan. If we don't get one, then I don't expect we'll see any improvement next season, and Canales can be jettisoned with Bryce. We should have substantial and unquestionable improvement, and if we don't, changes should be made. If Canales can't be the catalyst for that change, then he doesn't need to be here.

What you have to ask is if this is the Bryce effect. If the answer is, "yes," then you must not extend Bryce, and if you do exercise the option, you have to have a serious plan B (and, no, Dalton is not serious). If the answer is "no," then Canales should be put on a leash and a hot seat.

In my other post, I did mention suffering the lingering effects of the Bryce trade, so I indirectly acknowledged that it was ultimately a mistake, but with some nuance. In my opinion, it wasn't necessarily a huge blunder from a football perspective to trade up if you look within a vacuum, as that's what teams do, but it was highly risky (the nature of the beast). The "blunder" was taking a short, smallish QB who was anything but prototypical as a potential franchise QB. I always said that "they had better be right," but they were wrong. But for me that's water under the bridge. Now we have to wait and see if they're smart enough to correct the mistake and not not make the same mistake again. Now would I have traded up? No (I may inordinately value draft capital). But I can't say that trying to get an answer at QB is bad in and of itself, but it did turn out badly in my estimation, and David Tepper has to own that. But I've already mentioned how it water under the bridge and how he has changed his modus operandi. We'll see if the seeming progress continues. Giving Bryce a contract extension prematurely based upon his body of work will go a long way towards telling us if Tepper and Morgan are serious about establishing long-term success.

What has Stefanski done that would warrant replacing Canales with him? Stefanski has had a long run, and a I'm not sure how much juice he actually had in personnel decisions and the like, but he's been a part of a dumpster fire arguably more intense than what we've experienced.

Idzik would be clearly a fall guy

So the PFF angle is turning out to look pretty damned good.