Originally posted by AB81Rules:
As a John Lynch & Kyle Shanahan fan, and sometimes called a Homer, there needs to be some sorta repercussions for this failure of the Trey Lance trade, but to say fire Lynch or Shanny makes no sense, they've built a roster, and a culture, a super bowl roster, whether the haters agree or not, this regime has either signed, traded for, or drafted Purdy, CMC, Deebo, Aiyuk, Kittle, Trent, Banks, Bosa, Hargrave, Juice, Warner, Dre, Mooney, Hufanga, Gipson, Lenoir, plus so many other players who are good players like Mitchell, Womack, Burford, Brendel, re-signed Armstead for much less than Buckner got. Lynch & Shanny, & Peters, who should be the next GM, not saying fire John, but when John is done as GM, Peters needs to be the new GM, they are responsible for both the failure of the Trey trade, and the success we've had.
Agreed. Well said.
They've cost us tons and tons of cap space and key capitol is high draft picks and FA's with low to zero ROI from Kinlaw, Foster, Alexander, Ford, Richburg, Lance, etc. What shoulder? What knee? What inexperience? What injury history?
Some was their fault. Some not.
AB, if you were to do the cap hit damage here it would be objectively catastrophic.
Had any one of these choices ended up healthy or better choices, we'd probably have #6 by now. Maybe #7, honestly.
BUT, they've somehow managed to offset most of these loses in low cost-high ROI through 7 years and that has kept them ultra competitive.
And that's where we remain today. So no, ShanaLynch should not be fired but they need to cut their losses and move on as quickly as possible and grow from these failures.
To me, it seems like the same things cost us annually so I question how much they've learned.
1. They are still constructing a team with a 1990's model (DL and running game strength)
2. They continue to fail at QB (we'll see how Brock does long term but let's be real; he was eyed as a potential quality PS player)
3. They continue to stress RB > unit PP
4. They continue to allocate top-heavy resources to the DL > secondary
5. Soft practices = slow starts = late burnout
6. Discipline concerns (e.g. untimely drops, penalties, coaching gaffes)
7. Annually lead the league in injuries
They've got a lot of things to clean up besides the aforementioned personnel issues.
If they clean up ANY of these, they'll be right there in the end.
[ Edited by NCommand on Aug 24, 2023 at 12:35 PM ]