You don’t agree with it so it’s made up?
Did we all imagine the press conference where Tallon makes his “it doesn’t matter who, the buck stops here”. statement?
I’ve never claimed Tallon to be a genius but you are now claiming Bowman didn’t drop the ball is humorous.
Bowman may have indeed sabotaged his arch-nemesis Tallon to take his job for all I know, but the story that came out about what happened was unsubstantiated. The idea that it was the assistant gm responsible for mailing the offers came from a former staffer of a different front office and the goofball media that hated McD picked up and ran with it filling in all the blanks.
It was repeated and repeated and repeated for years after the first cup, but the actual facts never came out...and they don't matter beyond being important in assessing what did or did not happen and how it changed things.
Anyway, Donato is fine, wasting money is fine at the owner's discretion is fine, but there's very little evidence that these are moves that fit a template of a proven "go slow" approach to building a sustainable contender. We can like it and see how it makes sense, but being honest with ourselves there's just as good of an argument that hitting the gas on buying talent gets teams to the top sustainably even if it's ugly for a few years.