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Originally Posted by Ark2
It was an incredibly stupid comment. The franchise is in the state that it is now because the powers that be refused to accept that the team needed to be rebuilt and kept making moves for the playoffs. Saying anything remotely resembling that the mandate is still to make the playoffs is terrifying. If his point was that he still wants his players to work hard and try to win every game, then he should have just said that and left it there. Unfortunately, he has a big mouth and doesn't know when to keep it shut. Personally, I hope that the media trashes him for making this statement every opportunity they get because maybe it will keep him from doing something stupid this off-season.
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It's only terrifying if you don't realize that it was said as a public statement, and was not picked up by some undercover reporter who bugged a meeting of the management team and owners.
But if you do realize it was a public statement, you then realize that GMs say the politically correct things and then you try to read between the lines and piece things together based on how things get said and what actions get taken. The over rotation on this one comment and the panic it has created among some is unbelievable. If Feaster came out and said we were taking next year, the same people complaining about the playoff mandate would be in here talking about how Feaster is all talk and no action and wouldn't believe him. So why they put stock into this comment is beyond me.