Paraag Marathe Thread

Originally posted by Hitman49:

"The name of the game is not finding the best players, as conventional wisdom says," according to Marathe. "The name of the game is finding the best possible players for the lowest price. ... It's just being smart about managing your money. It's what a financial adviser would do for a client."



we are sooo screwed....are they in the business of running an NFL team or saving for retirement..."it's what a financial advise would do for a client"..GTFO

And just consider that this exact sort of evaluation is likely what was used in determining that Tomsula was the best candidate.


Successful in coaching his unit? Check.

Coached under a winning head coach? Check.

Coached on a winning team? Check.


Best possible coach for the price? Check.


Jim youre hired!

Originally posted by Hitman49:
"The name of the game is not finding the best players, as conventional wisdom says," according to Marathe. "The name of the game is finding the best possible players for the lowest price. ... It's just being smart about managing your money. It's what a financial adviser would do for a client."



we are sooo screwed....are they in the business of running an NFL team or saving for retirement..."it's what a financial advise would do for a client"..GTFO

this explains everything.

For those that don't think he has a say in personnel look at his quotes on the LT they signed in 2005 - the best free agent for the price.

Any GM will say - we need a LT. What about "X"? Marathe will look at analytics and say - Player "Y" measures slightly less on talent but for the price it's a steal. So, let's take Player "Y".

If you think Baalke can overrule the President, who is in charge of the cap and who uses these analytics to identify his own preferred players, you're wrong.

I hate this guy. I don't care if he's the leak or not. This dude don't know s**t about football and the proof is in the comments he makes. You can't apply math to everything and crunch a bunch of numbers when weighing things that aren't tangible (coach's personality, scheme to personnel fit, ability to dominate a meeting room). Then the whole "we aren't looking for the best players" comment. F this guy.

Originally posted by Hitman49:
"The name of the game is not finding the best players, as conventional wisdom says," according to Marathe. "The name of the game is finding the best possible players for the lowest price. ... It's just being smart about managing your money. It's what a financial adviser would do for a client."



we are sooo screwed....are they in the business of running an NFL team or saving for retirement..."it's what a financial advise would do for a client"..GTFO

It's true though. You can't go and get the best FA players every year. You need those bargain FA's and decent fill in draft picks that they have no intention extending. And extend promising players early for a cheaper price.

Jonas Jennings, he was terrible. Always injured. Total waste of $$$. Glad to know who to blame that on, even if it was a decade ago. Thank you!

Originally posted by KID9R:

Originally posted by Hitman49:

"The name of the game is not finding the best players, as conventional wisdom says," according to Marathe. "The name of the game is finding the best possible players for the lowest price. ... It's just being smart about managing your money. It's what a financial adviser would do for a client."



we are sooo screwed....are they in the business of running an NFL team or saving for retirement..."it's what a financial advise would do for a client"..GTFO

It's true though. You can't go and get the best FA players every year. You need those bargain FA's and decent fill in draft picks that they have no intention extending. And extend promising players early for a cheaper price.

This is what happens when you have an Indian managing finances

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by Hitman49:

"The name of the game is not finding the best players, as conventional wisdom says," according to Marathe. "The name of the game is finding the best possible players for the lowest price. ... It's just being smart about managing your money. It's what a financial adviser would do for a client."



we are sooo screwed....are they in the business of running an NFL team or saving for retirement..."it's what a financial advise would do for a client"..GTFO

And just consider that this exact sort of evaluation is likely what was used in determining that Tomsula was the best candidate.


Successful in coaching his unit? Check.

Coached under a winning head coach? Check.

Coached on a winning team? Check.


Best possible coach for the price? Check.


Jim youre hired!

Yep...."checks all the boxes"

Again, if you design a system that picks Mike Nolan over Mike Holmgren...you have made a f**ked up system. Funny that the year they didn't select Holmgren, he takes a second team to a superbowl. They must have lost because he won a SB with another team, not that it was one of the most onesided officiated games in SB history. Dumbf**ks...

Originally posted by thl408:

I hate this guy. I don't care if he's the leak or not. This dude don't know s**t about football and the proof is in the comments he makes. You can't apply math to everything and crunch a bunch of numbers when weighing things that aren't tangible (coach's personality, scheme to personnel fit, ability to dominate a meeting room). Then the whole "we aren't looking for the best players" comment. F this guy.

My hate now has a face.....

Originally posted by KID9R:

Originally posted by Hitman49:
"The name of the game is not finding the best players, as conventional wisdom says," according to Marathe. "The name of the game is finding the best possible players for the lowest price. ... It's just being smart about managing your money. It's what a financial adviser would do for a client."


we are sooo screwed....are they in the business of running an NFL team or saving for retirement..."it's what a financial advise would do for a client"..GTFO

It's true though. You can't go and get the best FA players every year. You need those bargain FA's and decent fill in draft picks that they have no intention extending. And extend promising players early for a cheaper price.

Good point. The cap has always been "healthy". Keep him as a capologist and keep him away from coaching hires, gameclock/gamesituation management, and drafts. He knows numbers, not football.

Originally posted by awp8912:
You'll never convince some people it seems. They want to see CIA classified documents to form any logical connections.

It's always the same 3-4 people and they all toe the exact same line. A few key things to note:
1. They HATE Harbaugh with a fiery passion
2. They defend Jed vigorously (that's putting it lightly)
3. They defend Marathe tooth and nail
4. They used to defend Baalke, but it seems that with the organization slowly souring on Baalke, this is changing as well
5. They used to defend Tomsula, but same thing - organization doesn't seem to be as enamored anymore with Tomsula and so their tune changes with it
6. They don't really like Kaep from 2014 onwards

Connecting the dots - would not be surprised if some of these folks are interns or lackeys that are employees of the organization. Otherwise, I just can't understand how anyone with half a brain can have any blind faith in Jed York or Marathe. Those two are complete f**k-ups when compared to the owners and presidents of other NFL franchises. And one retort will surely be "Oh but you were OK with them during the Harbaugh era.". To preemptively answer that, I was not OK with them but was happy that they seemed to have gotten out of their own way for a short period of time. They seemed to have reverted back to form.

Originally posted by thl408:

Good point. The cap has always been "healthy". Keep him as a capologist and keep him away from coaching hires, gameclock/gamesituation management, and drafts. He knows numbers, not football.

Dude tried to tell Bill Walsh & McVay about the draft I'm still dumbfounded that this was a thing and the organization sided with him.

I've always suspected that Paraag was the one behind the leaks, Jed while in over his head running things has never struck me as a mmanipulative mastermind. The sad thing is that Paraag has convinced Jed that he is indispensable and is therefore unlikely to be shown the door.

I'd like to leak on him....

Originally posted by LaMattsBlue:
f**k this douche. He thinks he is so smart, but all that matters is that prior to Harbs his record is 44 - 88 (or something like that). All this talk means f**king jack s**t. Get this f**ker out of here. I hope when Jed finally does speak up someone asks about Paraag.

So pissed off right now.

Originally posted by LaMattsBlue:

Originally posted by midrdan:
And this, from Bloomberg, confirms Marathe's meteoric rise through the organization: http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=71545615&privcapId=7728258

The guy has been - Assistant to the General Manager then Director of Football Operations then Vice President of Football Operations then Chief Operating Officer, and now President.

His philosophy, in his own words, from a 2005 interview: http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/offensive-line/Content?oid=2158707&storyPage=2

"The name of the game is not finding the best players, as conventional wisdom says," according to Marathe. "The name of the game is finding the best possible players for the lowest price. ... It's just being smart about managing your money. It's what a financial adviser would do for a client." Two off-season acquisitions stand out: Marques Douglas, an underrated defensive end from Baltimore whom Pro Football Prospectus described as possibly "the most economically sound signing of free agency"; and, perhaps counterintuitively, Jonas Jennings, a 28-year-old left tackle who has missed most of the season with a shoulder injury. In March, Jennings signed a reported seven-year, $36 million contract. "People thought Jonas Jennings was an expensive free agent," Marathe says. "But... left tackles -- productive ones -- play a long time, and he was the youngest possible unrestricted free agent." Moreover, according to the NFL Players Association, the average base salary for an offensive tackle with four years of experience is about $5.8 million a year. "He's clearly better than an average left tackle, in our scouting view," Marathe adds. "To us, it was a great value."

His philosophy on coaching, from the same article:

Part of the problem, Marathe says, was that the Niners were one of three teams looking for a head coach, "and we were the only team doing the non-conventional approach." In football, he says, the "common business practice" is the old boy network: "'I knew somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody else who knows him.'" Or maybe there's a hot college coach whose name gets dropped nightly on SportsCenter. The 49ers, however, "wanted to be agnostic about the process," Marathe says. Sifting through the past 25 years of NFL history, they identified a dozen or so of the most successful coaches based on measures like playoff appearances, average victories per season, and team improvement in their first two years on the job. The list that resulted could probably be drawn up in 10 minutes on a cocktail napkin in a sports bar -- Joe Gibbs, Bill Walsh, Bill Belichick, Andy Reid, Mike Shanahan, and so on -- but what happened next was unique: They identified the traits those "superstar head coaches" had in common, traits that Marathe placed in two "buckets." "The first bucket is, What did those superstars possess prior to getting the job?" he explains. "Who else did those superstars work for before they got their chance? What was their background? In their previous jobs, if they were coordinators, did they improve their unit? The second bucket is, What did they possess during their job that made them successful? That was a little more subjective, but we were able to do a ton of research." From his analysis, he discovered that the best coaches tended to have worked on the staffs of winning teams, often under other top coaches. In addition, he found that nearly all of the superstar coaches were disciplinarians by reputation.

Using those traits as screening criteria, the 49ers whittled down the list of candidates to just a handful -- coaches who hit on most, if not all, of the important measures. "Boiling the ocean," Marathe calls it. An advisory committee that included former 49ers players and coaches further thinned the list, down to five who would go on to interview. (Noticeably absent from the interviews were any college coaches. Marathe, while emphasizing that there were "a lot of other factors," points to the track record of college coaches making the jump to the pros without any prior NFL experience. Only two or three have had career winning records.)

The interviews -- all but one of them conducted in a hotel in St. Louis, away from media scrutiny in the Bay Area -- were epic sessions, some lasting six, seven hours, straight through lunch and into the afternoon. The questions ranged across the spectrum, but they all coalesced around a single point. "You're not just looking for a guy who's a head coach," Marathe says. "You want a guy who can manage the inflows and outflows of personnel, and understands that, in the Salary Cap Era, you're going to have churn on your roster. How a coach can manage churn, or how he understands that he has to manage that churn, is an important part of today's football knowledge."

f**k this douche. He thinks he is so smart, but all that matters is that prior to Harbs his record is 44 - 88 (or something like that). All this talk means f**king jack s**t. Get this f**ker out of here. I hope when Jed finally does speak up someone asks about Paraag.

So pissed off right now.

so after all this analysis,they discovered their man was sitting right next to them in the organisation......having supported a successful coach that was booted....get out of here....what a crock of s**te....