The Tempered Expectations Thread

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

As a head coach, I have no concerns really about Mike Shanahan. And I'm beyond giddy about Kyle Shanahan. As an organizational leader, you won't find many better than Bruce Allen.
As evaluators of talent, I'm moderately satisfied with Shanahan and Allen.

Where I have some concern is with how the team will be put together personnel wise. Allen and Shanahan both know talent when they see it, but both have a tendency sometimes to overvalue talent or, more often, realize that the talent may not match the value they're giving it but take the risk anyway. Shanahan especially is a high-risk, high-reward kind of guy. I'm interested to see how the team is "reloaded" this off-season but I guarantee there will be at least one or two serious head scratchers.

And as I mentioned earlier in this thread, or maybe in another, this is not the same situation as Marty. Not at all.

On the bolded point, i couldnt agree more. i listened to the press conference again on my way to work this morning. As Allen was speaking, i accidently hit the touch screen on my phone in just the wrong spot and the vinny cerrato/jimmy clausen interview started playing. The sound of Vinnys voice made me cringe. If I had not been at a stop light, i could very possibly have gotten into a wreck and died. the contrast between the two men could not be any more severe. I don't really beleive Allen is any better of a personnel guy than Vinny, but his leadership qualities are lightyears ahead of his predecessor. This brings me to the rest of your post...

which i also agree with completely. I think the most crucial factor to the success or failure of the shanahan regime will be whether we hire/retain the best scouts, personnel guys, etc. in our front office. if they appropriately
"narrow shanahan's shopping list," then we should be ok. in the short-term, we should be drafting/signing lots of linemen in, which are generally lower risk positions.