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Originally Posted by browna
Will be interesting to see how this season is going to be spun to those who've plopped down their STH money, and fans in general as far as "hope".
Not so sure I've heard them come out and say "be patient for a couple seasons" just quite yet, and still have a few months of the summer to form something more then we see today, but...
They (Edwards) shot for Shanahan to get a new voice and a bit of a new perspective in there, and lost out. That's a huge blow to the offseason plan IMO.
Retained the GM who was kept around in the first place to get the last out of the core, which are now all but gone...that GM has been given the responsibility to clear house and draft, spend the cap space they have, and and try and shuffle the chairs on the titanic while the team builds back its desirability as a destination.
Same with the coach...a coach meant to coach the last years out of a core that is now gone, and a coach that certainly didn't seem to enamor himself to too many players...a couple of them where shipped out in the same deal. Nevermind the horrible defensive play, considering he inherited much of the same solid if not dull) defensive team Sutter had.
Is all the hype going into this season to be based around the draft picks made last week? Not much else of note to get interested in.
As for the young guys, there's a fine line of playing hard and not giving up game by game; its another (in so far as confidence) to see that constant effort not end up with results more often than not.
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Not going to lie, but I was pretty pissed that they decided to raise ticket prices again, especially when the response was "we could have raised them higher", coming off a lockout. But with them having massive amounts of cap space and raising the ticket prices?
The organization will be pocketing north of 20 million this season. I will not be renewing if they decide to raise them again.