James Duthie

They look so awful.

And their stats back it up.

Oh, I know you're not going to want to hear this, but we were talking about it on the panel last night.

Dead last in shots against, dead last in slot shots, like everything across the board.

It's horrendous how awful they are defensively.

But isn't that the real answer, Noodles, for next year?

Yes and no.

You're right, yes.

But I think then you've got to go a step further and say, what about the coach?

I guess that's what I'm getting to.

For five or ten years down the road, who's the manager going to be?

That's what's going to matter in terms of projecting where I think this team's going.

If we're looking at next year.

how much better can they really get?

The coach is going to have a way bigger impact than whoever the GM is.

Yeah, they're probably going to have to turn over the whole defense corps before they're really back in the –

They're dead last in everything.

The coach has got to own that.

I know maybe we don't see eye to eye on that.

The three of us, you two, have kind of been in the path of it's all players all the time.