Ray_Dogg wrote:As I have said before, there isn't another guy I would want to do contracts. I consider Maraathe the best at it. There is an overwhelming false alarm by fans who think he's in there calling the shots on players. I have never seen that as the case in any reports. He provides info in a lot of areas but it's still up to a football person what to do if anything with that info from what I have read.
Furthermore, other organizations (Eagles, Patriots, Ravens, Falcons, Bucs, etc.) engage in many of the same types of acts as far as numbers, tendencies, etc.. Obviously, that doesn't mean they are all number-crunching the exact same way and putting the same value on it for the draft, free agency, player development, etc., so I don't have a major problem if anybody wants to get extremely detailed with it and explain why the 49ers method for doing it isn't as good as team X or if system X would be better than the ways Marathe and York are going about it. I have yet to find anybody dedicated enough or capable of being able to construct an argument for that, though. The same old ways of communicating one's frustration with the lack of success and how they're involved is just too much any more and not my time, but that's just me. Maybe others find some value in the same old, same old.
I also don't fault anybody if they want to stick with the known dysfunction on how Marathe and York go about treating and dealing with employees, what's being asked of them on a day to day basis, or for the type of politicking that they engage in. Go ahead and criticize that all you want because that's where a lot of the dysfunction lies IMO, but the number-crunching and placing values on different parts of the game with different models and the outrage that comes from that is so ludicrous because that's an avenue more and more teams are starting to go down with guys that are on these staffs.
