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(11-29-2018, 01:56 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Therein lies part of the problem though. Shouldn't something like that be a pretty obvious choice? Should someone really have to fight tooth and nail with upper management every time they want something to change? Trust that your employees can make good decision and let them make those decisions. If you aren't going to trust them, should they really even be working for you?

In retrospect, yes, it seems obvious.  However, Brown has always been a firm believer in needing a franchise QB(he's not wrong).  If Akili had turned out to be good and we had taken the deal, it would have been like the billion times the Browns missed out on a franchise QB by trading down.

Very few companies dictate policy from the bottom up.  I've been a manager for a company like that, and it's a nightmare. Department heads constantly make procedure changes that help their departments but hurt the others because they don't understand fully how they interact with each other.

Another issue is most of the big FA's we have signed like Thornton, Odom, Coles, and Bryant have been mediocre to complete busts.  This is going to make Duke and Marvin more reluctant to push for high dollar players to Mike, because they look incompetent pretty much every time they have.  Thia is one reason Mike should have dumped Marvin awhile ago.