Detroit Lions Ask for Permission to Interview Chiefs DC Gunther Cunningham

I would love to see the difference.

Which was: When a person doesn’t understand something well, and knows it, he’s much more likely to listen to someone who understands it well. That’s why I think you’re overplaying the ’ “It was (all/mostly) Gunther” that screwed up the D’ card. Whereas on the D side, Herm does understand something about how it works – but that makes him subject to Will Rogers Jr’s old saying: ‘It ain’t what you don’t know that’ll get you, it’s what you /know/ to be true that just ain’t so’. (Or words to that effect)

I’m not in love with Gun as the Chiefs move forward. Whether bad coach or bad fit, his rep’s been tarnished here, and that doesn’t help when it comes to coaching his players. He probably needs to revamp his approach to his job, too – sleep deprivation isn’t a good thing, especially as you get older. At a guess, he needs to learn to delegate better, but streamlining his approach might help him, too. Successful companies give their workers breaks for good reason. If I were interviewing Gun, Id ask him if he planned to continue to work 20-hour days or he could learn to delegate some of his job so that he could get some rest during the season. If he couldn’t/wouldn’t, that might well be a deal-breaker for me. YMMV

But for all that, Gun going to Detroit might well serve KC, Detroit, and Gun himself rather well. What does Detroit have to lose? The HC knows him, and believes in him, too. It may well work out that KC and Detroit both wind up with upgrades.

As for the number of C2/T2 plays they played: I don’t think that is a useful measure on the D. IMO, it’s a matter of underlying philosophy, where a T2 team looks for picks while playing bend-but-don’t-break in the meantime, instead of the 90s KC D which was oriented to intimidate and break opposing Os with sacks and strips/fumbles and forcing the other team to have to not only throw, but throw deep by smothering the run.

For all that Carl pissed off Jarred Allen, if he’d been here in the 90s, I am willing to bet that JA woulddn’t have left, despite the feud, because he’d have been in love with the philosophy under Marty/Gun. People who are happy at their jobs are much less likely to leave them, even for a little more money, and even when there’s some friction with their boss’ boss’ boss. But playing under Herm+Gun, under the C2/T2, the aggression just wasn’t there to hold his interest.

Not saying Carl didn’t screw things up with JA, just that there were (as always) other factors in play that might have made a big difference.

it could be true! But who knows! All i know is im sick of all the speculation! If Herm is going to stay id like to know asap so i can drink my self retarded untill this time next year. Hopefully then iill sober up and Herm is gone.