ZBBM
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Reading up on all this as I was on the road all day. Quite the day.
As I read the Shanahan transcript, I have to say that a few things stick out:
"I didn?t expect that he was going to go out and put that to the public..." To me this is the linchpin of his presser. He said Dubas had expressed his familial concerns privately the day before. He's a generation up from Dubas. Guys like him don't air those kind of things at a press conference. Dubas comes from a generation where (some) men no longer have qualms about sharing their emotions. We saw it in the box at Tampa. No older GM would ever have done that. I think that Dubas's comments on Monday, plus those images from Tampa, were enough to push Shanny over the edge.
Another complicating factor: Dubas has an agent? Maybe it's standard, but even so it's another layer of complexity (and weird, to me, that an employee could negotiate with his boss through a third party).
The lack of quick, immediate, one-on-one followup from Dubas to Shanny post-Monday also probably sealed Kyle's fate.
As for me, I liked Dubas a lot. He was successful in many areas of the job. He branded the team with a fun playstyle that delivered great value in the regular season ? something not to be underestimated. But the ultimate yardstick, he failed at.
The good thing is that now all possibilities are in play with a new management team, and, no doubt, new coaches.
As I read the Shanahan transcript, I have to say that a few things stick out:
"I didn?t expect that he was going to go out and put that to the public..." To me this is the linchpin of his presser. He said Dubas had expressed his familial concerns privately the day before. He's a generation up from Dubas. Guys like him don't air those kind of things at a press conference. Dubas comes from a generation where (some) men no longer have qualms about sharing their emotions. We saw it in the box at Tampa. No older GM would ever have done that. I think that Dubas's comments on Monday, plus those images from Tampa, were enough to push Shanny over the edge.
Another complicating factor: Dubas has an agent? Maybe it's standard, but even so it's another layer of complexity (and weird, to me, that an employee could negotiate with his boss through a third party).
The lack of quick, immediate, one-on-one followup from Dubas to Shanny post-Monday also probably sealed Kyle's fate.
As for me, I liked Dubas a lot. He was successful in many areas of the job. He branded the team with a fun playstyle that delivered great value in the regular season ? something not to be underestimated. But the ultimate yardstick, he failed at.
The good thing is that now all possibilities are in play with a new management team, and, no doubt, new coaches.