Gunther's finger pointing has already begun...

[DaWolf]

Typical. Would expect nothing less from a guy who loves to blame everyone but himself on his failures...

“I’ve gone through three years of playing zone defense because I was loyal to Herm Edwards,” Cunningham said today in a conference call. “That’s what he wanted. People here in town knew that I was different than that. My idea is to put a lot of pressure on the quarterback — always has been, always will be.”

This after you proclaim that you love Herm Edwards and the Cover 2 has always been a part of your scheme and that the "handcuffs" had been taken off with Herm, all while you were throwing Vermeil under the bus.

I guess Gunther really doesn't have a spine.

“The emotions get involved, ‘Oh, we’ll play with all these young players,’ ” Cunningham said. “But what you don’t understand is, they have to be led by guys like Jared Allen.”

“If you have a lot of young players that you’re going to draft, you have to make sure you work the whole process,” Cunningham said. “I believe the mistake we made here is that they tried to add some UFA players like Demorrio Williams. Well, he doesn’t have enough experience and enough ability to lead a bunch of rookies. …

“I can at least share what happened here and the pitfalls we ran into and see what the process brings.”

Yeah, so the answer I suppose would be signing all those UFA's you had on your list that you gave to Carl and proclaimed that Carl delivered. That Kendrell Bell, helluva leader Gun.

http://www.freep.com/article/2009012...mon+with+Lions

[Fish]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

uhhh how can you say you were loyal but throw the coach under the bus at the same time?

Exactly. Gun is trying to have it both ways. He's using it as an excuse for why the D sucked, and still trying to make the point "See, I'm loyal to the head coach." He threw out the line "My defenses get after the QB. Always have, always will."... but forgot to add "Except when the head coach tells me to do something different. Then I do what he says so I can keep my job."

[HemiEd]

Like I said earlier, Gun was following the example that Herm set. I am so glad all of these ****ers are going to be gone. What a waste of three years, the Herm ****ing Edwards era.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

Like I said earlier, Gun was following the example that Herm set. I am so glad all of these ****ers are going to be gone. What a waste of three years, the Herm ****ing Edwards era.

Can you imagine running a team where the defensive coordinator and the head coach don't agree fundamentally on the ****ing defensive scheme and the GM's ego prevents them from keeping their best defender?

JFC.