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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
Ha. I knew you'd respond to this, because you're still floating around in fantasyland. OF COURSE Herm's going to say that he wanted Gun and Solari all along. You really think the day after Gun was hired, Herm is going to go to the media and throw a shit fit and scream and cuss about how Gunther Cunningham is a dipshit? Of course Peterson and Herm are going to say that Gun and Solari were Herm's choices. And to a limited extent, it might be true. I'm sure Herm sat down with both those guys, liked what he heard, and said he was okay with hiring either one of them. But that's not the way it's supposed to work. It was Carl Peterson's job to give Herm Edwards options. And Carl Peterson did not bring in a single coach outside of Kansas City to interview for coordinator positions. Being fine with hiring a coach, and being excited about hiring a coach are two entirely different things.
It was Carl Peterson's job to bring in options for Herm to look at. If Herm had a look at several coordinators and chose Gun and Solari, that'd be a different story. The fact that Peterson brought NOBODY in for a full week is a pretty strong indication that Peterson told Herm it was Solari/Gun or bust.
Saying that Carl Peterson had 100% control over who was hired and who was interviewed is not an assumption. It's a fact. Good GMs bring open competition for coaching vacancies. Carl Peterson had a history of refusing to bring in outside coaches/coordinators for interviews. If you still dispute that, answer me why when Greg Robinson was fired, the only guys the Chiefs interviewed were two of Vermeil's assistants and Gunther Cunningham. The fact that the two coordinators were hired without bringing in a single interview candidate outside the organization... that is Carl Peterson's fault.
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Don't you think that maybe it was brought up before the hiring? I'm sure Carl said...."Hey Herm....we're going to bring you in as our headcoach but we want to keep Solari as your OC and Gun as your DC. You can either accept that or not accept the job".
According to you it went..."Hey Herm...welcome to the Chiefs! You're stuck with Solari and Gun.....GOTCHA BITCH!"