He sucked and I can't perform the mental gymnastics needed to sing his praises or give him credit for where we are today.
I mean on some level the amount of NFL talent he had access to in that Covid season makes him look worse, not better.
And Bert deserves colossal credit, not just from a player development perspective, but because it was his decision to use the weird Covid rules to invite the entire 2020 team back. Under different circumstances a raft of NFL talent would have flooded to the exit door in December 2020, indeed many people hoped that's what would happen in order to "accelerate the rebuild" and get "his guys" in the door in the nascent transfer portal.
BB rejecting that changed the culture in the building, and that pays dividends to this day.
who is coming here to clean up after Mike Thomas and Lasagna Man?
I suspect Whitman could have pulled a rabbit out of his hat. He's good at that.
But we go through the doomed, miserable Cubit interim year in that hypothetical, at a moment when things were getting scary fan-interest wise.
As I said, all's well that ends well. I wouldn't trade the MS 100th anniversary, or the Pat Bryant walk-off, or Shane Beamer's meltdown, for anything in the world.
