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Originally Posted by Buehler445
Your definition of "building it the right way" is far, far more liberal than my definition of wrecking the franchise.
No, asshat. For the ****ing millionth time, he wrecked the franchise because the team was ****ing hot garbage. Sure he dumped big contracts, he replaced them with guys that couldn't ****ing play.
The team was competitive when he started. A joke when he ended. ****ing wrecked.
McAdoo's team was competitive when he started but a joke when he ended (potentially less a joke than Squirmin Herman MOther****ing Sack of **** Edwards).
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There are plenty of people on cp who hate herm. But the very idea that he dismantled a playoff team is totally unfair and even the biggest haters recognize that a huge chunk of that blame goes to vermeil and Peterson. And I would venture to guess most would also agree that wrecking balling this franchise quickly and painfully was a hell of a lot better than Peterson (and apparently your idea too) wanting to bandaid the roster instead of blowing it up.
It was the right decision to blow up the roster. Blowing up the roster means expensive sure things get replaced with a ton of unknowns. Again, fine if you want to suggest we could have gotten a few better players faster. I don't know how anyone could have supported a bandaid approach. And if you supported blowing up the roster, then that comes with the understanding that no matter who was coach, they would have probably been way below . 500 too. So either you're strategy is off by wanting to bandaid or you're nitpicking over going 2-14 instead of maybe 5-11.
But trying to suggest we had any chance of being competitive a few years after the mess vermeil left is totally off.