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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The abysmal drafting and treating of 2nd round picks like they were trade currency ruins it for me. He was a horrible amateur talent evaluator and never had a plan past riding Iggy and Kipper into the ground. That said I have him and Treliving are neck and neck and I just think Coates would have done a better job than both of them if he had their resources.
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Success trumps all. BT has done nothing outside of two lucky years. 2019 was tarnished due to the playoffs, and unsustainable anyway unless you believe career years from your best five players every year is possible. 2015 fooled him into making 'go for it' moves. The other 4? Mediocre.
People dismiss Sutter's 2004 run as a fluke but I remember one of the most well coached, heart and soul teams I've ever watched. Underrated skill too. Went on to make the playoffs 4 more years in a row. Culminated in a very, very strong 2009 team that though was older, still makes the current team look like a pretender in comparison. I swear Brad's media savvy and slick talking won him round 2 because there is nothing else there as far as I'm concerned. No Hamilton trades and all he has is some nice RFA signings. Well if that's what he's strong at, let him sign RFAs exclusively because he's average to below average at every other part of the job.
Sutter made better teams and didn't even need the draft to do it. How many top 6 picks did Sutter get? Oh ya, none except for Langkow who he robbed from Phoenix. BT came into a much more complete organization primed for a rebuild, we didn't even have a farm team when Sutter arrived. BT has like 15 AGMs. How many did Sutter get? None until Feaster who was clearly here to replace him.
Coates was better than BT too. BT winning RD 2 honestly makes me think that more people here are newer fans or something. I dont see how anyone in their 30s could possibly see Brad as 2. I am biased against the guy at this point, I'll admit. Just as I believe pro Treliving bias drove his rd 2 result. People were even voting for him in rd 1! 30 throw away votes. That's a lot. Sorry anyone who voted him at 1 can no longer have their opinion on the matter taken seriously. Some opinions are wrong, dead wrong. 10% of round one was totally uninformed or trolling.