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Itse · 03-16-2010, 04:28 PM

I think it's pretty pointless to argue about whether or not Button sucks or not.

He's obviously not great. No matter which way you spin it, he's done an OK job at best, and after all these years there's no reason to expect him to get better. We want better drafting, I'd think that's a given? To get there we simply have to try new people at key positions, because otherwise there's just no way anything will change.

It's not like we'd lose something invaluable. As the teams around the league have shown, there's plenty of people that can do that job as good as he can. Basicly if we give his job to someone else, the worst case scenario is that we'll be very slightly worse.

At this point I think it's fair to say that the best case scenario with Button is that we don't get any worse.

03-16-2010, 04:28 PM	#136
Itse Franchise Player Join Date: May 2004 Location: Helsinki, Finland Exp:	I think it's pretty pointless to argue about whether or not Button sucks or not. He's obviously not great. No matter which way you spin it, he's done an OK job at best, and after all these years there's no reason to expect him to get better. We want better drafting, I'd think that's a given? To get there we simply have to try new people at key positions, because otherwise there's just no way anything will change. It's not like we'd lose something invaluable. As the teams around the league have shown, there's plenty of people that can do that job as good as he can. Basicly if we give his job to someone else, the worst case scenario is that we'll be very slightly worse. At this point I think it's fair to say that the best case scenario with Button is that we don't get any worse.