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Originally Posted by sherck
I totally agree.
My biggest Christmas wish for this franchise right now would be:
A. Love ya Jimmy but hand over the reigns of the franchise to Carlie.
B. Carlie, pull up your big girl panties and fire your GM and HC from whom all accountability should flow. Put together a panel of folks to consult for your next GM that should include Bill Polian, Tony Dungy, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, heck....Bill Belicheat if desired and find your next guy.
C. Put your full faith and confidence in that next GM for him to find and hire a staff that can rebuild the franchise.
D. Evaluate every player on the roster and sell. Sell hard in 2025. Get every possible draft pick for the 2026 draft and beyond that you can.
E. Put a team of the field for 2025 that can, perhaps, win one game as you bring in every player you can find who is under 25 years old and evalute them as to their long term viability. Sell EVERYONE over 30 and ALMOST EVERYONE over 25.
F. Get the #1 draft pick for 2026 and go with the QB you think is most able to be a long-term franchise QB. AR is not the guy.
When you need to start over, there is no time like RIGHT NOW to do so.
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One of Ballard’s biggest issues is he believes and has grown a culture of “next year” instead of “right fucking now”. The team has talent, it lacks leadership and direction. His gifting positions to rookies philosophy sucks and I sure as fuck don’t want to repeat them. You need vets to win. So I don’t want a complete rebuild, I want a complete retooling. New leadership, new direction, and accountability. Keep the guys that fit and buy in, and push out the ones that don’t (bye JT). Do that and see what you have in AR. But the roster doesn’t need completely blown up, it needs molded into an actual fucking team instead of just a collection of high ceiling potential players.
IMO it would be stupid to give up on AR at this point. He’s one of the rawest rookie QBs to come out and he’s been surrounded by a shit show with no accountability. I’m not convinced he’s the one, but I’m not sure he isn’t. The team has done him no favors. Put an actual fucking team around him and see what we have.