Chiefs Players: Don't Blame Herm

[King_Chief_Fan]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Surely you didn't think that with the roster we had that this was possible.

This was not a good roster. And most of that blame can be placed at the feet of Carl Peterson. Yes, the Chiefs have had three drafts between 2006-2008 to resolve that problem. But #1 - given reports of the power struggle in KC, it sounds like Peterson was overruling Herm on a lot of personnel decisions; and #2 - It is a huge expectation to expect a coach to completely turn around a team with only 3 years of draft picks (2 of those picks being #20 or lower) and no elite free agent acquisitions.

This is the absolute definition of trying to make chicken salad out of chicken shit.

The bull shitter makes chicken shit

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by King_Chief_Fan

The bull shitter makes chicken shit

This isn't about his public persona. This isn't about his ability to coach. We know that we don't like those things and I can't argue with anyone about those points.

This is the point about a rampant argument that Herm decimated this team and has done nothing to help this team rebuild. And there is too much indisputable evidence that he was handed a lemon and given very few resources to doing it and, from the sound of it, was held back by his GM from doing the things he needed to do.

There is a lot of good reason to hate and blame Herm Edwards. But the extent of the blame he gets for personnel problems ignores the huge pile of evidence that Peterson had a HUGE hand in it.