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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
What if Treliving proposes a tear-down to ownership and they say no?
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Do the owners want to hear the truth, or do they want to hear what they want to hear?
Or put another way, is the 'mandate' even up for discussion?
There's a lot of nuance here and it's hard to drill it right now, but it's the crux of the issue IMO.
I suspect the owners first question tends to be: how does this impact our odds of making the playoffs this year? And if the answer is anything resembling 'worse', it's a non-starter.
Put another way, has Brad ever had the freedom to even consider a question like: "do I believe Johnny and Monny can lead a team through 4 rounds?", because the alternative is an implicit reduction of playoff odds for a couple of years...
Of course, he hasn't necessarily had a gun to his head saying 'push your chips in the middle, or else!'...but maybe his mandate has actually been 'do things to make the team better NOW'.