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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
I know how good the Vermeil team was. You seem to support squeezing more out of the lemon vs. realizing the team needed to be blown up. Many of even the biggest Herm haters back me on this. If anything, I think the team should have been blown up in 2006 instead of 2007.
And I'm not overstating how good the 2008 team was. Replace Thigpen with Sanchez (even if mediocre, it's a huge upgrade). Get Charles in the starting mix. Use $57M to add 3 or 4 not just good, but elite players. Bring in 1 or 2 more contributors through the draft. Hire a good coach to coach that team that's not Herm. That is an ascending team, which is what you want coming out of a rebuild.
While barely spending any money. I have no interest in keeping a bunch of overpriced 35 year olds around during a rebuild. We're not talking second contract players. We're talking 3rd or 4th contract guys.
If you honestly want to compare what Dorsey inherited to what Herm inherited with a straight face, I don't know what more I can tell you. Herm inherited a team that could have limped to short-term success, but was an utter long-term disaster. Period. Dorsey did not walk into a bad situation. The best option for Dorsey was to retool or very light rebuild. The best option for Herm was blow that roster up. I don't know how this could even be up for debate.
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You refuse to see the holes in your argument and believe that there is no other way to build a team than blow it up. By all means, praise Herm. Thank God we were so blessed to have such a pile of shit coach that has failed at everything he has ever done ever, except for cap space. Thank God we went from a perennially competitive team to a ****ing joke that was not competitive against anyone but the Faid. Thank God we set records for losses. Thank God for blackouts. Thank God for Herm.
You can think what you want, but Dorsey took a ****ing tire fire that Pioli left him, dumped most of the dead weight and made the team competitive. In one offseason. And when the cap got hairy, he didn't blow shit up, set franchise loss records and get the vaunted high draft picks (that good teams never have) that you crave so much, and embarrass the hell out of the entire city. No, he did what good personnel men do and fielded a team. He found depth. For cheap. No, he hasn't found the next Jamaal Charles (unless West really steps up), but he also didn't field a team with 40 guys that don't belong on a roster.
Dorsey is what King Carl, Squirmin Herman, Pioli, and even Reid in Philly could never be. A decent personnel man. I don't even think he's that good, but he's competent. That is a welcome sign in my books.