Treliving’s strength was the business side of staff management and negotiations. His weakness was player assessments.
He delegates really well and assesses, hires, & keeps quality people who he supports and trusts.
Listening to his interviews in Toronto today reaffirmed a lot of this.
As GM here, he was the chief talent evaluator. His philosophy dictated the style the team played and with Burke he was tasked with finding the players to play it.
Burke picked him in part because they have similar philosophies on the game.
What is funny is how Toronto fired Burke 10 years ago only to hire another guy he mentored.
Shanahan will be his oversite on most of these decisions, and could/should provide some sober second thoughts.
It would be interesting to get Conroy’s perspective on what his decison was on the Brouwer & Neal signings.
Did he push back? He won’t say anything publicly that would hurt his relationship with Brad.
Either way he most likely learned from the mistakes, and not accurately assessing the actual state of the team’s maturation.
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