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Originally Posted by mooby
I'm not gonna sit here and question whether some of these posts are directed at me, if you are gonna call me out just do it.
This is all I am asking: If McC had been drinking on the job for an extended period of time why did they not make a plan and stick with it? Clearly he was a weakness that needed to be addressed, why did they do in the haphazard way of firing him during free agency? It wasn't like they saw him having 1 beer on the job and decided he had to leave immediately. Who was the last GM fired during free agency not named McCloughan? Shit, the Seahawks and 49ers knew he had a drinking problem and they still didn't end up with the mess we have now.
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You don't see the Machiavellian logic in letting him go at the start of free agency? The drinking wasn't the reason for dismissal, the drinking was the excuse.
At the start of free agency you've got the guy's thinking on free agents and you've got his draft board mostly done. You take that information and you:
a) execute on the free agent plans, knowing that you Bruce Allen could not have come up with a better one on your own, you roll with McCloughan's and take credit for it since he's gone at the time the pen hits the paper on those free agent contracts
b) in parallel, hand your draft board to Jay and Doug Williams and say OK go work off this, and interview the players, and tweak this board based on what you think. Go into the April draft executing a McCloughan draft board with input from Jay and Doug. You, Bruce Allen, get the credit because McCloughan is gone, and you're the one in charge.
c) do all the talking to the media so that all of the screw ups can be blamed on McCloughan, and so that you can take personal credit for all the good stuff.
d) find a new GM to put in place in May, following the draft, and go into the next season with a clean slate.
I don't know what we're arguing about here. McCloughan wasn't fired for drinking, does anybody really think that? Nobody here is arguing that. McCloughan was fired because he wasn't a yes man and Bruce Allen is a Machiavellian dickhead. Drinking was the built in excuse to fire McC for cause whenever they wanted.