Whitlock: Poor Tony, Blame Carl

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Originally Posted by Claythan

[B]I bring this up so I can beat my favorite dead horse — Carl Peterson. By failing to recognize the fall of his franchise and unloading costly veterans, Peterson set up a scenario in which he would give his pet draft picks — Gonzalez and Larry Johnson — expensive new contracts that would help the Chiefs win four games in 2007 and one game (so far) in 2008.

The Chiefs will be paying for Peterson’s miscalculation for a long time.

I think i just found my new signature.

Absolutely 100% dead on.

Honestly, those moves were made more for "PR" reasons than anything else. Id be willing to bet Carl did know the end was near but had to make those moves to help keep butts in the seats.

Can you imagine the reaction if Carl would have gotton rid of those two guys after 2006?