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Originally Posted by milkman
Regardless of any of the crap you're spewing here, the fact remains that Carl gave his coaches a large voice in the draft room.
The responsibility for the failures of the Chiefs in Carl's 20 years start with Carl, but that doesn't absolve the ****heads he hired to coach this team of any responsibility.
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It doesn't absolve the guy. But coaches are not scouts. They're not personnel guys. A GM that gives a coach that much power in personnel decisions is a ****ing idiot. Even top-of-the-line coaches like Holmgren and Shanahan sucked ass when they were given personnel power. It's because you can't coach and do the extensive due diligence and evaluation that dedicated personnel guys can.
Vermeil can recommend players all he wants. But shame on Peterson for giving him the power to do so. Peterson and company had the power to veto any move Vermeil made. And they had the time Vermeil didn't have to sift through lots of film and workouts to tell Vermeil he was wrong. Vermeil is very low on the list of people to blame when it comes to personnel decisions.