Right?

The Peter Principle is better explained that a worker is promoted beyond his level of competence or into a position to which his skills are ill-suited. If you’ve regularly watched “The Office”, Michael Scott is an example of the Peter Principle. Scott was a great salesman who was rewarded for his production by being promoted to run his branch, but the ability to manage people is different than the ability to sell product so he became a subpar employee even though he’s still just as smart as he ever was, he’s working in a job where he’s made to look incompetent because it’s a poor fit for him. That’s why good employees are often better served not by promotion but by other incentives.

We are like cats and dogs… But UC, I gotta tell ya… I love it. It makes the work day go by a lot faster.

Anyway, I think that it’s ultimately gonna be the GM’s job to figure out what to do. Just like Big “YOURE MY BOY,” Blue brought out, the coach (praying it aint Herm) and our new GM (praying it’s Pioli) will have to sit down together and figure out what kind of team they want, then go after the coaches and players that fit that system.

Perhaps for a couple reasons, UC. I’mspeculating, but consider this:

Herm was never a DC. He went straight from DB coach to HC. I’ve never heard anyone with a clue claim that HE couldn’t coach or evaluate the talent of DBs. As HC he’s selected a D-scheme that allows DBs to shine. That being said, it’s possible that Herm never learned to evaluate the Defense as a whole. When things go wrong on D, he falls back to his primary skill: player evaluation. The scheme can’t be at fault – the players are just making little mistakes here & there. Therefore, the D is just a little coaching away from being “there”, and maybe a player or two, as well. Note that the D has looked like a merry-go-round this season. Perhaps that’s part of the reason.

To paraphrase Will Rogers, Jr.: It ain’t what you know that will get you, or what you don’t know. It’s what you /know/, that just ain’t so.

Whether Gun’s tried to make his case, or has decided to ‘shit up and soldier’, I can’t say. But I suspect that Herm’s convinced that the D is ‘almost there’, based on evaluation of individual players.

Chan, on the other hand, is in charge of the Offense – somewhere that Herm /knows/ he has no skill-set. The inital design for this season was to treat the O as an extension of the D, with a clock-eating, ball-control O. When that fell apart, Herm couldn’t properly evaluate the personnel, and had no basis to oppose a philosophical change on O. Possibly, Chan promised that the O would play “conservative” ball, to protect the lead, especially in the 2nd half, as a precondition for being allowed to re-vamp the O. Chan could probably swing that, and demand that the D be able to protect that lead, and pick p enough stops, and/or defensive points to be able to win. Thus, the O has played in much the same fashion in the 3rd Q, especially with the lead., and the blame goes back to the D, and back to just being a little bit away…

Between Gun and Chan, well – Chan had a better record at HC, and had coached with the Steelers, back in a high-powered era (Incl 1 SB appearance). That carries more baraka and influence than Gun’s record, and possibly leaves Chan a bit more willing to challenge Herm on the issue.

Of course, tht’s speculation – what do I know? I’m just the guy who’s reluctant to burn the barn down in order to kill one rat… ;-)