Originally posted by jcs:
If you feel keeping Baalke in power as long as they did had no impact then sure....
That is a whole different matter from the owner inserting themselves into personnel decisions, something that there is no evidence that Jed has ever done at any point in time. If anything, Jed was exceedingly patient with his GM.
The issue Cleveland has is an owner who has inserted himself into personnel matters previously and hiring a front office where nobody has even the most basic of qualifications to be an NFL personnel executive for any other team. Even where the 49ers hired a newbie in John Lynch, they also brought in Adam Peters and Martin Mayhew to work directly under him. Cleveland's highest ranked personnel guy is well outside of the executive structure and on his own is a fairly unremarkable 30 year old with limited scouting experience.