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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
Maybe we should have traded 2 seconds for a QB. Spent cap money we didn't have on backloaded contracts for a few overpriced veterans instead of playing rookies. A safe QB alone would have gotten you closer to the 8-8 you so desperately craved. The fact that you're still stuck on the idea that Vermeil's geriatric roster was worth building off of or that you think this was a simple payroll dump proves that you still have no concept about how bad of a situation Peterson/Vermeil dumped off.
God forbid we had one coach in the last 20 years who chose an actual rebuild, who chose to develop QBs instead of trading for retreads, who didn't load our roster with second wave overpriced middling free agents. We finally have one who did that and we're complaining that we didn't make enough safe moves to keep us at .500. This is why KC will always settle for mediocrity. Blowing up the roster was ballsy and it was the right decision. Period.
And again... for all your talk about how easy it is to turn a team around in 3 years, can you say Jacksonville? Gus Bradley got scapegoated too. And it's looking like his decisions to rebuild in the same way Herm did is turning out brilliantly well. But not before he got run out of town for being a 3-win wonder. Thankfully the Jags had the patience to let him seeindidn the rebuild all the way through.
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I didn’t say it was easy. Don’t put that shit on me. I’m just saying other teams do it so 5-11 isn’t the upper limit of year 3 like you keep postulating. It is also possible to rehabilitate a good team (which Vermiels was) without being abysmally terrible. Because you know, good teams do it.
Fact of the matter is if you’re going to take a decent team and blow it the **** up the key to THE WHOLE MOTHER****ING THING is finding personnel at good value. The only thing that will make the thing go, he failed ****ing miserably at.
Accordingly he took a decent team with decent talent and wrecked it. He wrecked the ****ing franchise. There is no way around it. By the end of year 3 it was all his creation. All of it. And it was a ****ing tire fire.
He wrecked the franchise.