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Carl Peterson deserves most of the blame for personnel problems. The reasons I can't excuse Gunther Cunningham is that he was given a blank check four years ago to load up on free agents, and he failed miserably. He brought in failures like Sammy Knight, Kendrell Bell, Carlos Hall, and Patrick Surtain--arguably, this spending spree was a large reason why the Chiefs struggled to rebuild.
Apart from that, you again have to understand what his direct accountabilities were. His job was to build the X's and O's, and to coach players on fundamentals. Carl Peterson may have brought in the wrong players, so I can understand if our players were too slow to make tackles. But it doesn't excuse players constantly missing tackles and it doesn't excuse Gunther calling lousy plays in the wrong situations.
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