Ax
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No, my brother. We're both just focused on our own points. Mine being that luck played a large part in Cooke's success here.Ax, you seem to purposely misread what I posted.
My point is Cooke hired BOBBY BEATHARD and allowed Bobby to hire the head coach who ended up being Gibbs.
Otherwise Cooke would have had no idea there even was a Joe Gibbs out there to be hired.
And he was smart enough to admit that to himself.
Snyder doesn't have that sense of awareness. He thinks he and Bruce can get on a plane and watch Griffin play in a college game or two and then trade a generation of draft picks to select him and think all will be well.
That is simply delusional.
Beathard was a good hire. But even he didn't have the same success, before or after, his time here. People have put Beathard on some mythical pedestal that even he would find absurd. Sure, he made an educated decision in hiring Gibbs, and it paid off. Why didn't his brilliance allow him to do it again? How come every draft pick he made didn't wind up in the HOF.
Cooke hired Pardee didn't he? Where was his great football mind then? Where was his otherworldly ownership wisdom? He fired him pretty quick too. Kinda, Snyderlike, if you will.
Then the lucky old coot hit it big when the guy he hired, hired the guy that saved us all. Of course, Petitbon was here before Gibbs. Gibbs didn't hire him. So, Gibbs got lucky too, at the outset.
But I contend that Gibbs was more important than either Cooke, or Beathard. Hell, Cooke wanted to fire him after his 0-5 start. You know, Snyderlike. Luckily, Beathard convinced him otherwise. But Cooke's mythical ownership instincts were wrong. He was saved from himself.
After Gibbs left, with Beathard already gone, losing the internal battle to Gibbs, Cooke promoted Petitbon. Then, in another Snyderlike move, he fired him after 1 season. Only to hire Norval Friggin Turner. Where was all the otherworldly football knowledge then?
Look, I hate to sound like I'm shitting on Cooke and Beathard. And I hate sounding like I'm some sort of starry eyed Snyder groupie.
But Cooke and Snyder had more similarities than some care to acknowledge. Winning and losing being the biggest difference.
And I contend that luck, both good and bad, played a major part of it.