Maybe it's our bad timing. Had he not hired Jimmy and given him the keys to the team part of it and had not that been the perfect time for that to happen and for all the dominoes to fall perfectly on time, he would have had to sell the team like Bright did. But then, does the team have 5 rings?
The biggest problem for us was the quick turnaround. Buy the team, fire the legend, hire the brashest coach in college, trade the biggest star, pick some players and bang, bang....dynasty. Jimmy made it look too easy and for all his boating tendencies, he has always been a coachaholic, which is why he hung it up. He lived coaching.
Booger sees how easy it was and thinks that's real, nothing to it, 500 coaches could do that and proves that with Barry but he didn't learn the lesson, Barry won with Jimmy's team and could have won 4 in a row if he'd approached it like Jimmy always did, keep the pressure on.
Booger thinks the GM job is easier than it really is, although he's only a part-time one and there's that time issue again. He remarked that he is his own GM because another wouldn't be willing to take the risks he's willing to take without really asking himself why they wouldn't. He admitted he should have fired himself but excused that by saying he didn't have to.
This has all been a crazy journey for us. We start with that miraculous turnaround and think that's the future but when we see the real future, we are unprepared for that and feel we are owed more than the CLE, DET and WAS fans. We have a team run by an on the job training program for not only the family but coaches as well.
However, that is what was not what is so I think the Booger bashing has run it's course for me. It is not his handling of the team that has been my problem with him anyway, he owns it, run it. It's his annoying personality and spotlight seeking and need to materialize his ego with his toys.
I look at him now and say "he is not what he used to be" so why hold that against him? That shot from the war room, tell me you didn't go "yeah, finally" when you saw him make the call to stay with the OL on his board. He's a stubborn man and it takes the stubborn ones longer to learn the error of their ways but I think he's learned and the one thing he's learned to do is be a better listener and listen to the people that know more than he does.