More and more I think this is a 2 fold thing.
1- Saturday's primary role- report back to Irsay which dudes want to play football and which dudes just care about the cash. Those on the cash end of that report, see ya at the end of the season.
2- Saturday auditioning for Ballard's job. I don't think there's any chance Ballard is back so if Saturday demonstrates he can work the personnel end of this- he moves to GM and Jim goes after some high profile coach and it would not surprise me if Harbaugh's name emerges as a front runner. I think Jim is going to go full in on getting more of an old school, lunch pale persona in place. F-k analytics, f-k gimmicks, tape it up and go out there and play with heart. I think that's what he wants to get back to his team.
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