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Originally Posted by htismaqe
How do you overcome poor drafting and free agent evaluation with a GM who became KNOWN for those two things?
Jared Allen wins us JUST enough games to keep Carl employed. And Carl continues to screw up in the draft and free agency. Jared Allen ends his career with a bunch of sacks and no playoff wins.
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Ownership needed to fire Peterson. The notion that you
needed to allow the team to freefall down the drain so you can make FO changes is silly.
It's like saying "thank god Joe died in that car accident, because now all Joe's friends wear their seatbelts."
It's easy to say that move was the catalyst for the end of Peterson's regime, and it may have been. But we don't know that for certain, as Clark Hunt hadn't really had a chance to show us what he would do yet.
The assumption that Clark
wouldn't have ever pulled that trigger is just more reason to expect more years of failure. Even if it
was necessary to set these changes in motion, I still can't see it as anything other than a negative.