Questions in Wake of Peterson's Resignation

I would be interested in it happening just to hear how many boo’s he gets

If it wasn’t for what he did in the early 90’s, this team may have left KC. But his stay waas about 8 years too long… He should have went when Gun left the first time.

The people got what they wanted, like UC said, it’s time to stop hating the man. He gave it his best and it didn’t work. Time to move on.

Cowher is a recognizable face. What qualities has he shown that he could be a good GM?

Is he an effective communicator? No. Watch the pregame shows, he stumbles over his words alot when disagreed with. Not a good thing for contract negotiations or disagreements with anyone in general. Plus I’ve heard he spits alot when he talks/screams. So thats no good.

Can he evaluate talent? I can’t answer that, because I have no clue who was doing the drafting for the Steelers.

He seems to fit most of the other criteria, but I think those are two huge ones that discount him.

Though I know he will never be hired as our GM, I don’t understand those that call for a Schotty/Cowher combo. My recollection of the Chiefs under his watch were good teams but those that drafted poorly. I don’t care who it is as long as we start drafting well and becoming teams like Pittsburgh known for getting good mileage out of their picks

Someone had to say it. Talk show callers only throw out his name because they have heard of him, but I guarantee you there is a scout with the Patriots or Panthers that they’ve never heard of that is probably way more qualified than Cowher.

He had to settle for Lane Kiffen, who had never been a head coach at any level. Nobody wanted to take that job 2 years ago and it will likely be a worse situation this time. Look at their last two head coaches: Art Shell, really came back to coach because nobody else would take the job. Look at how Davis treated a legend of their organization. Then Davis fired Kiffen in the middle of the season — from week to week it was a matter of “is Davis going to fire the coach or not.” Now Davis is trying to deny Kiffen money owed him on the remainder of his contract. Davis has created a toxic situation in Oakland and will have a hell of a time hiring a qualified candidate. Davis won’t let his head coach pick his own assistants.

On a similar note, under Peterson the Chiefs organization kept getting more and more Raider-like with all the cryptic secrecy.

And I would repeat what others have said, good luck to Clark hiring a GM that will accept not controlling who the head coach is.

Doesn’t that indicate to you that the decision will be made pretty quickly (probably has already been made but we will see sufficient time passing to make it look like Carl actually resigned) on who the new GM will be? There are going to be a LOT of coaching vacancies this year and if they are hiring a new head coach, for the new GM to have a say they are going to need to get him in here in a hurry so that a decision can be made on Herm and have time to get any good head coaching candidates (are there any?)

His beer glove money to finance his own campaign for the GM job.

I can’t think of too many who would roll the dice on a leftover from the previous regime who’s sporting a win-loss record like Herm’s and as much bad will with the fans.

Not going to happen…Herm’s most likely gone.

Not entirely. Rather, it depends on if the guy selected as GM has a HC in his back pocket, so to speak. If the new GM doesn’t have a new HC on tap, he may string along with Herm, watching how things develop, and working the grapevine for possible replacements.

One of the important factors in selecting a new HC is whether the new HC can make the team win with the personnell we have right now.

Two names stick out in my mind: Marty Schottenheimer & Joe Horn. Remember Horn? He was a Chief, once, and didn’t amount to much under Marty. Why? Because Marty couldn’t make use of the talent on hand.

Herm taking over from Vermeil was bad enough – but Herm inherited a very old team. Rebuildin was inevitable, and has been painful enough. Even so, Herm wasn’t suited to coaching the team he was given – the best he managed with it was to sneak into the playoffs and get hammered by the Colts (granted, Carl had a hand in that hammering, but the point being that the Chiefs didn’t really earn that playoff spot).

So, to replace Herm, the GM will need to be able to hire a HC who can make use of the bulk of the players that Herm has on hand /now/. And coaches, insofar as that’s compatible with winning.

The way the offense is going, the new HC had better be able to work with Chan – he’s gotten something started: a little line help, and a viable running game tacked onto what we have now, and our O could be a /real/ threat.

Someone better attuned to Gunther might well be a good idea, too. I really do believe that Gun doesn’t own the entirety of the horrible defensive performance – Gun was never a real cover-2 guy, that I ever recall.

But a new GM would be in a position to lean on Herm, a bit. Allow a little more direction to come from the coordinators, and evaluate /them/ on the basis of the units they run, and run /their/ way. Emphasize to Herm that his job /now/ is to extract the best he can from his subordinates, rather than the players directly, and to support them in their roles.

Failing all that, it buys him time to learn the inner politics & culture of the Team, and to consider who is the best guy to grow the Team from Here, to Winners. Bringing in a guy who’s just gonna throw out the young talent we have now,and start over, is stupid and wasteful.

The more I’ve thought about it as I’ve typed, the more convinced I am that picking some guy who is gonna hire a new HC to wipe the slate clean & start over is a HORRIBLE idea. You like this year? How much you gonna like it if we get a new HC who will need two years to clean out Herm’s players and start over from scratch? I don’t. Not one little bit.

Ergo, unless the new GM comes in with turbo-Herm in his back pocket, he’d better be ready to manage Herm as a HC. For one year, at least.

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Here.

Is always a horrible idea.

Plenty of reasons why.

it’s just a matter of time.

I completely agree with those who call him Team Obliterator (most notably Skip Bayless).