Debating Herm's Future

[RustShack]

OK OK OK Herm came here to fix the defense and not touch the offense. It takes good coaches three years to turn a team around. Herm couldn't even fix JUST the defense in three years.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by RustShack

OK OK OK Herm came here to fix the defense and not touch the offense. It takes good coaches three years to turn a team around. Herm couldn't even fix JUST the defense in three years.

The difference is that when most new coaches come in, they're allowed to clean house. Herm should have been allowed to blow the team up as soon as he walked in. Instead, Peterson insisted that the team limp on with a team that we knew was getting old. Rather than bring in future-bright free agents, he threw money at third contract veterans whose sole purpose was obviously to extent the limping window 1 or 2 more years. Wasting money on Ty Law and Donnie Edwards, who we knew would only play 2 or 3 years max was absolutely insane.

And so, we got two bad outcomes out of that. Because we insisted on "winning now", we ended up with low draft picks whereas most rebuilding teams get top 5 picks. And we didn't play the young guys as soon as we should. And the free agnets we brought in had a short-term purpose rather than long-term.

Again, to say that this rebuild started 3 years ago ignores the facts. This team should have been blown up years ago. It sounds like Herm wanted to do that, but Peterson resisted. And we know who was wrong on that call.

[KCJohnny]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Again, to say that this rebuild started 3 years ago ignores the facts. This team should have been blown up years ago. It sounds like Herm wanted to do that, but Peterson resisted. And we know who was wrong on that call.

Good point.