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Originally Posted by Racehorse
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Interesting, and TOUGH question.
In this specific case, given the brand new 1st year coach, I would say it is a negative because there isn't yet a culture and young players can easily fall away in tough times with no senior guys to keep them on track. That said I could also see Steichen wanting to press the restart button and start completely new and not have anything stand in his way of building his team based on his protocols. Which could be a mistake, we're 7 days from beginning to find out.
In terms of blame, hell yeah there's blame here on Ballard. As OldColt noted, he is a notorious traits chaser and when those dudes don't pan out, well they are OUT of the league in a hurry because this league is built on the back of football players and real GMs and coaching staffs reward football players for doing what they were hired to do, which is not run against stop watches or jump against a measuring stick!
Beyond the drafting though, you also have to look at FA and again, this dude just fucking hates FA. Whatever fucking calculator he uses, it's different than the brand the rest of the entire fucking league uses. Again, he is obsessed with athletes, generally speaking the older FA vets aren't the super freak athletes, they are the dawgs, the guys who fill the holes and glue teams together. These are men that carry pride in what they do and fill their locker rooms with that professionalism. This fucker clearly doesn't believe that is a thing.
Still, no idea WHAT he does that anyone thinks he is good at?