Carl Peterson's Coaching Decisions

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by DaWolf

RE the Gunther hire, While I'm not sure about Reid, I know Bellichik was No 1 on Carl's shortlist, but he declined to be interviewed for the position because he wanted to stay on the east coast (and at the time he was in line to be the Jets next head coach) and Holmgren was looking for a job giving him total control, which would not have been possible with Carl. The choice I wanted at the time was Billick, but he had gotten too far along in the interview process by the time MArty announced his resignation and so he was pretty much locked in on the Ravens.

It's a misconception that we missed out on that trio because Marty waited too late to tell King Carl he was leaving.

According to Soren Petro Marty held his press conference on January 11th of that year.