(08-10-2018, 07:53 PM)dropbear Wrote:Glad to hear grievances, it's how we improve. The Yeti haven't been perfect, but we have improved leaps and bounds from our streak of consecutive losses and held together a core of guys during a period that would have seen other teams' users go IA, or perhaps even orchestrate a mass retirement.
You can shake your head at some of the Yeti HO's decisions, but anyone in the know wouldn't do so regarding the Smallwood issue. We had just signed Grau, who had opted not only to be a part of the team rather than forcing our hand in a trade so he could play WR elsewhere, but also went so far as to position switch to RB. All signs pointed to him being our bell-cow back for seasons to come, and regardless, we couldn't supplant him after his decision to position switch for the good of the team.
Most importantly, though, there was the issue of tlk's frequent (whether justified or not, and it's all in the past anyway) attacks on the Yeti in the public domain. After spending several seasons languishing at the bottom of the league and trying to keep our LR positive in spite of it, the last thing we wanted to do was drop the LR-health equivalent of a nuclear bomb in Colorado.
I'm excited to be a part of the Yeti GM team moving forward. And as any good GM should, I scour these threads for the gems of insight and outsider perspective among the otherwise entertaining hyperbole.
Everything here. Tlk has always been anti yeti in the public eye, and I was not interested in bringing in someone who has been that way for some time. Also like dropbear said, grau was thought to be our long term back, we would've gotten a lot of negativity from the public if we just made grau switch to rb, and then immediately put him in a backup role which was what he was trying to avoid at wr...I even personally messaged tlk to tell him this, yet let's all get on the bash yeti bandwagon because it's what people like to do.