[MissouriSkin]

Originally Posted by Scalper

Gruden may be overrated, but he is a solid offensive mind, who won a SB, and was the youngest coach to ever do so at the time. His offensives have generally been solid. That doesn't mean I think he is Vince Lombardi. Another example of a very good, at times great, coach that should never be given GM powers. You could honestly draw parallels between RR and Gruden. RR has never won a SB, despite having some VERY stacked teams, and is known as a players coach rather than a brilliant mind. At least the year Gruden was given a stacked team he won the damn SB! RR didn't. I like RR, but just being real. If you have a real GM who controls personnel, Gruden can be a good but not consistently great coach. It is rare to have a good ending when coach given absolute personnel power, and this does not bode well for RR era.

I think we hired Hurney because he's RR's buddy, and Mayhew because a Redskin and African American because THE DAN is being advised to be exemplary with all female minority hirings to make his other discrimination and sexism problems go away. I don't think either hiring was about objectively finding the most brilliant talent evaluator, and that is the primary job of GM, to bring in talent. Thus if we are not being homers, while the Skins should be much improved, we won't sniff a SB under RR. We don't have talented enough GMs and are ousting the only prodigy talent evaluator we have.

Yeah but it was a stacked team with Tony Dungy’s players whom he immediately got rid of and they got worse just about every year he was there until he was fired.