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Originally Posted by Buehler445
Herm didn't rebuild shit. The franchise wasn't set up nicely for the future. Sure cap wasn't bad, but theee was no talent. That's not set up. That's not rebuilt. That's driving 100MPH into a tree with a paid for sports car. Sure you don't owe money on the car, but it isn't worth a damn thing.
To go along with your analogy, just because a dude cleans up debt doesn't mean he is making sound financial decisions. Paying 1,200 a month for a refrigerator box is dumb. Yes it's better than $2,500/month house payments. It it's still a shit decision.
Herm took a mediocre to above average team and basically made them an expansion team.
1. No money tied up.
2. No talent
3. No winning culture, nothing to build on.
4. A couple extra picks.
That's an expansion team man. You're the only guy I know that will say, sure. I'd like to be an expansion team.
The Chiefs aren't the only idiots to overpay for old guys. It doesn't necessitate wrecking the ****ing franchise.
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Not everyone here likes Herm. For good reason. But I know even the biggest Herm haters mostly recognize that the team Herm inherited... there was no choice but to wrecking ball that shit. Not fix it. Blow it up to smithereens and start over.
Herm didn't inherit a mediocre to average team as much as you want to say it. He inherited a team of grossly overpaid, expensive but uncuttable geriatrics. A better coach could have gotten more out of them than Herm did in year 1 (though getting to the playoffs behind Damon Huard is much better than some coaches would do). But after that year or 2, not even Bill Bellichick could have saved this team quickly. You act as if he inherited a workable team then crushed it. He inherited a team that was 1 snowball away from an avalanche.
And the Chiefs didn't just "pay for old guys" during the Vermeil era. They stockpiled on old veterans. Gave old veterans like Wesley and Woods enormous long-term deals that handcuffed them WAY beyond their prime. And to afford their drunk spending binge, they restructured the living hell out of contracts like Trent Green and Priest Holmes to the point where they were exploding back-end timebombs. It was a perfect storm that came from a GM intent on milking that team dry for 2 last playoff runs in 2004 and 2005. This was not just some ordinary cap purge. This was the Titanic. Not only were they $25M over the cap (remember... this was 10 years ago -- that is enormous), they were badly handcuffed to unworkable contracts.