Holmgen and Alexander

[DaWolf]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

haha..Like I mentioned earlier. You could also say Carl had a hand in Seattle picking Shaun Alexander too. They knew we coveted him back in 2000, but unfortunatly they had the pick before us so they took him. We settled for SlyMo.

Actually the word at that time as I had been reading online was that Chiefs scouts were "mixed" on Alexander and didn't like his style of running as it didn't fit our philosophy (at the time Gunther was the HC obviously, so Joe Horn also didn't fit in with our philosophy). There was a debate as to whether or not we really wanted him.

Obviously the same thing happened a couple of years back with LJ. Carl went with his gut on that one, and thank goodness he was right...