how did teams, some of which who have actually gone to a Super Bowl, ever get by without Dorsey and his scouts?

After reading the posts about Reid being the one deciding on personnel, I am hopeful that may be the case. If so, then we should be fine. I would guess that the coaches often have more say so than they get credit for anyway. Take Marty for example. Carl Peterson made his best player decisions when Marty was coach. During the Gunther and Vermeil years, our team got bad due to poor drafting and free agency. Then Herm was hired and drafting improved. Meanwhile, AJ Smith looked like a brilliant GM while Marty was his coach. Marty was canned for Norf. Next thing you know, AJ Smith sucks and gets fired for it. Dorsey will land somewhere soon. So we will soon see if it was Reid or Dorsey when they are running separate teams.

Yea I'm pretty confident about that

Hmmm.

Dorsey fired a bunch of front office guys and scouts.

Maybe he fired them/didn't renew their contracts because he already had something in the works...

Spin it bossman!

LOL

1st kc passes on Vet FA's,

Then moving up in the draft to reach on a QBOTF

Then dumping cap space.

Now they dump their GM

Sure sounds like a team in a full on rebuild to me.

I guess no one was happy with one WC win in over 20 years.

I'm all for waiting to see who the new man will be, but that anyone would be in this thread singing the praises of Clark and Reid at this point pretty much tells me that some folks use blatant stupidity as a coping mechanism.

Wonder if Clark wasn't happy about the Jc and or maclin ordeals?

Reid shouldn't have been making that decision and Clark has said it isn't the case. But even so you don't fire or ask to push a guy out over how he handles the Maclin situation.

Most importantly, whether Reid or more likely Clark, you don't let Ballard go because you are semi-content with a GM. It's too big a decision to say "eh I'm semi-content". I'm just not accepting Dorsey as Reid's bitch. Both of their histories and how this team has been built says that isn't what happened.

That remains to be seen. If we asked that question in CP's first 3 years we wouldn't have an answer either. There are guys on this roster that could potentially be but that's a long way and jump from here. Dorsey has definitely drafted Jared Allen level players IMO. The other three are monsters but Carl also had 20 years. You could argue Houston if it wasn't for his injuries. Who knows what Kelce, Peters ect turn into. I'm not saying they will be, but it's crazy early for anyone he drafted.

Cole said it was before the Maclin deal

It very well could be a combo of things, those very much included. I mean, you took 2 fan favorites, well 1 fan favorite and 1 fan-hero in JC and just told them to **** off. You dump what should be your #1 RB and #1 WR without so much as even an attempt at a contract negotiation and that is enough to get your ass on the radar.

Probably by hiring a new/outside GM every few years to keep things fresh.

So the Maclin deal could have played a significant part if they were already at odds.