Hindsight being 20/20 and all...
 

Rewind the clock back to 2009 before Pioli and Haley were brought in. Clark just got rid of Peterson and Herm and the two most important, non playing, positions on a football team are still vacant.

Do you back up a truck full of money for Cowher to come back to KC to be HC/GM? Do you push for Rex Ryan? Who would be your pick for HC?

As for the GM position, I will admit my ignorance of who was available at the time so I cannot comment. Who else was out there that had better cred than Pioli?

I bring in a chicken with one leg and no eyes.

No need to use hindsight. I wanted DeCosta from Baltimore and Jim Schwartz.

Now, using hindsight, I would have gone Rex Ryan with DeCosta - who probably would have been a better match since they worked together in Baltimore.

Cage match

I'd hire Jim Harbaugh.

all i know is this ain't workin.

I'd be fine with the current arrangement IF:
1. Haley is allowed to get HIS guy at QB.
2. Pioli forces Haley to hire a competent OC and do his job without interference.

I know that won't happen though.

I remember thinking to myself "self who ever the coach or GM is hope to God we don't trade away draft picks for another reject rehash unstartable for any other team QB because he is going be old and suck for a few years and get replaced with another old useless reject QB that's not going get a start other than here because that's what Carl Peterson would do."

I can honestly say (and it can be found in the archives) that I wanted Doug Whaley and Jim Schwartz as our front office even before the hires were made. I wasn't upset about the Pioli hire, but a little disappointed.

Given the benefit of hindsight, that's still the duo I'd want to go with.

That would be a sweet compromise for the two.

You pick the QB. I pick the OC.

I wouldn't mind Rex Ryan, but after Herm, do they really want to go for another former Jets Head Coach??

Edit: Oh yeah for got about the space time continuem, he would not have coached the Jets.

This pretty much nailed it. However, I do think that Haley's willingness to do unpredictable things is an asset on offense. Maybe Haley gets to override 10 percent of play calls.

I wanted Jim Schwartz and Eric DeCosta.

Too bad we couldn't have just combined Martys defense with Dick V offense, for the same 10 year streatch. What a team that would have made.