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(01-04-2019, 03:25 PM)BengalChris Wrote: I don't believe Mike Brown has much football knowledge at all, or if he does he's yet to actually use it as the GM. How much knowledge can Katie or her husband really have? I tend to view them more as administrators or accountants.

For Mike Brown it's all been about his mental comfort, as he has mentioned his comfort level so many times I doubt I could count them. To his credit though he has stepped out of the draft generally, as whenever he gets involved in it we get bad picks almost every time.

Coughlin would have been a good choice but there's no guarantee that he would have brought a playoff win under the Mikey management philosophy.

Knowledge and competence are two different things.

He has plenty of knowledge.   He was raised in a football family by a football legend and he was a college level quarter back.  And he's been around the game for a long time.

And he has some decision-making skills.  They just aren't consistently good.

The year we took Justin Smith in the first round he wanted to draft Drew Brees and was voted down.   But he defied the opinions I believe of everyone around him and eschewed the offer Mike Ditka made to give us all New Orleans' picks and insisted on drafting Akili Smith.

I think Marvin was the right choice at the time.   And who knows what he might have done if he'd had total control of things.  We'll never know.