Was reading the Brackett thread and I realized that we're all missing something when we argue about whether or not smoke means fire.
A better question is, why does a management team whose only arguably bright spot is scouting restructure responsibility so that their top two managers are going to spend more time scouting? I mean I hope Chris Gear does well but he's very inexperienced - is the cap/contract situation guaranteed to improve? Supposedly he now negotiated the Edler deal? I mean good for him but that was the management equivalent of taking candy from a baby.
So contracts are now Gear's domain....JB/JW are off to _amateur_ scout. Because we don't have enough pro scouting issues that have led to terrible signings and trades...
It seems absolutely insane for me for us to double down on our strength in an area that has been largely shown to be a crapshoot, when it's all the other aspects of being a GM that have seemingly given Benning trouble. And their solution to contracts/cap is to pawn off responsibility on a rookie and put that rookie into a situation where the cap is already ****ed and the only thing that can un**** it isn't signing better future contracts but to offload our dead weight...which is a pro scouting/trade issue and I don't see the steps they've taken to try to improve that aspect.
One of Weisbrod's main stated tasks as AGM was already amateur scouting, and his most notable activity as a professional scout was doing most or all of the negotiating for the Gudbranson/McCann trade:Was reading the Brackett thread and I realized that we're all missing something when we argue about whether or not smoke means fire.
A better question is, why does a management team whose only arguably bright spot is scouting restructure responsibility so that their top two managers are going to spend more time scouting? I mean I hope Chris Gear does well but he's very inexperienced - is the cap/contract situation guaranteed to improve? Supposedly he now negotiated the Edler deal? I mean good for him but that was the management equivalent of taking candy from a baby.
So contracts are now Gear's domain....JB/JW are off to _amateur_ scout. Because we don't have enough pro scouting issues that have led to terrible signings and trades...
It seems absolutely insane for me for us to double down on our strength in an area that has been largely shown to be a crapshoot, when it's all the other aspects of being a GM that have seemingly given Benning trouble. And their solution to contracts/cap is to pawn off responsibility on a rookie and put that rookie into a situation where the cap is already ****ed and the only thing that can un**** it isn't signing better future contracts but to offload our dead weight...which is a pro scouting/trade issue and I don't see the steps they've taken to try to improve that aspect.
Was reading the Brackett thread and I realized that we're all missing something when we argue about whether or not smoke means fire.
A better question is, why does a management team whose only arguably bright spot is scouting restructure responsibility so that their top two managers are going to spend more time scouting? I mean I hope Chris Gear does well but he's very inexperienced - is the cap/contract situation guaranteed to improve? Supposedly he now negotiated the Edler deal? I mean good for him but that was the management equivalent of taking candy from a baby.
So contracts are now Gear's domain....JB/JW are off to _amateur_ scout. Because we don't have enough pro scouting issues that have led to terrible signings and trades...
It seems absolutely insane for me for us to double down on our strength in an area that has been largely shown to be a crapshoot, when it's all the other aspects of being a GM that have seemingly given Benning trouble. And their solution to contracts/cap is to pawn off responsibility on a rookie and put that rookie into a situation where the cap is already ****ed and the only thing that can un**** it isn't signing better future contracts but to offload our dead weight...which is a pro scouting/trade issue and I don't see the steps they've taken to try to improve that aspect.
One of Weisbrod's main stated tasks as AGM was already amateur scouting, and his most notable activity as a professional scout was doing most or all of the negotiating for the Gudbranson/McCann trade:
Judd Bracket is ... an amateur scout. The situation you're describing isn't attrition of talent from professional scouting and negotiation, it's reassigning someone who was terrible at it to another set of tasks and promoting someone else.
Funny how when a circumstance comes to pass in which viewing Weisbrod positively can be used as the basis of a strained, side-long criticism of management, suddenly people go from hating him to assuming he's useful.
You're supporting the opposite conclusion of the person I responded to, who seemed to suggest that reassigning Weisbrod left the team at a disadvantage. Frankly, I might fire him too.I might just fire the person who was incompetent at the job they were hired to do.
Like can you imagine what Amazon would and Bezos would do if his second in command was as bad as that trade was? That trade was so bad it was laughed at by the panthers. So yeah lets not fire him or demote him, lets just move him to a different part of the company...
I mean when the hawks screwed up on those contracts in their window, they fired and rightly so their GM.
What kind of company does this?
You're supporting the opposite conclusion of the person I responded to, who seemed to suggest that reassigning Weisbrod left the team at a disadvantage. Frankly, I might fire him too.
The reason I lump in Beagle with Schaller is because his contract is atrocious for what he brings, but also our PK is quite average boardering below average this season. While I respect what Beagle does on the PK, I feel we have other players who can fill that role, and again for much less of a salary than he's currently making. As for Roussel, the only reason I'm giving him a pass is because he was quite effective last season and has come back from an injury that kept him out for half the year, otherwise I would probably include him with both of them.Schaller I agree with but poor Beagle is out there risking life and limb throwing himself in front of pucks on every pk. It puzzles me as to why he's always lumped in with the non contributors when there's Antoine Roussel floating around with his head on a swivel not working up a sweat doing his best to avoid physical contact and get back to the bench safely without getting his hair mussed up. I really don't get it sometimes.
One of Weisbrod's main stated tasks as AGM was already amateur scouting, and his most notable activity as a professional scout was doing most or all of the negotiating for the Gudbranson/McCann trade:
Judd Bracket is ... an amateur scout. The situation you're describing isn't attrition of talent from professional scouting and negotiation, it's reassigning someone who was terrible at it to another set of tasks and promoting someone else.
Funny how when a circumstance comes to pass in which viewing Weisbrod positively can be used as the basis of a strained, side-long criticism of management, suddenly people go from hating him to assuming he's useful.
Can't believe Linden was the fall guy, not the guy who was incompetent at his job for the first four years. Imagine learning on the job for four years while being the GM of a $750 million franchise.
To be fair, Linden pushed to extend Benning so he is not totally clean in all this. If not for his extreme poor judgment at that time, things might look a lot better today.
Let's not forget Linden's big hire, Willie Desjardins. Then refusing to fire him when everyone realized it was a no-brainer.
Trevor Linden is a text-book empty suit. Good riddance.
Let's not forget Linden's big hire, Willie Desjardins. Then refusing to fire him when everyone realized it was a no-brainer.
Trevor Linden is a text-book empty suit. Good riddance.