1. Fans do not have all the information the front office has. No fan nor journalist sees the entire package.
2. Fans mostly operate on a 20\20 hindsight.
3. When fans get it wrong, it is not in the press in three inch letters. Only a few other fans call them out.
4. The goals of the fans seldom, if ever, align with the front office
Fans are arrogant and normally are behind their pet cats. When a player makes a mistake, there will be some fans pointing it out as if it is a microcosm of the entire play by this player. It's not. Just watching this board and how most everyone straddles a fence without any impunity should tell you fans couldn't find their bung hole with a map, a yellow brick road, and a tour guide.
The hubris in this thread reminds me of the fable of the seven blind men and the elephant.
A group of blind men heard that a strange animal, called an elephant, had been brought to the town, but none of them were aware of its shape and form. Out of curiosity, they said: "We must inspect and know it by touch, of which we are capable". So, they sought it out, and when they found it they groped about it. The first person, whose hand landed on the trunk, said, "This being is like a thick snake". For another one whose hand reached its ear, it seemed like a kind of fan. As for another person, whose hand was upon its leg, said, the elephant is a pillar like a tree-trunk. The blind man who placed his hand upon its side said the elephant, "is a wall". Another who felt its tail, described it as a rope. The last felt its tusk, stating the elephant is that which is hard, smooth and like a spear.
I may start a franchise for bamboo canes.