Didn't think NFL owners meddle sometimes in the Draft?

[StickierBuns]

Not so fast, my friend. When the GM and coaches don't agree.....

Pretty wild admission....and the guy is still on the roster, lol.

[supafreak84]

This is a great example of having too many voices in the room and it's surprising to me that an experienced GM like Beane would cave to the pressure of the coaches when Coleman wasn't the top player or one of the top players on his board. I'm sure this kind of stuff happens frequently, but as it relates to the Vikings, I fear Kwesi weighs too heavily on the advice of coaches and Ryan Grigson because the dude does not have any real football or scouting experience himself. There's nothing wrong with weighing the advice of others on players or draft picks, but at the end of the day you need a guy who can call the shots on his own and make the right decisions based on his own experience in scouting and/or player personnel. This is, and has been the problem when you make an "outside the box" hire to run your organization.

[MaroonBells]

Pretty unseemly to throw an active player under the bus like this. But it's a good reminder that most NFL draft picks are consensus agreements between GM, the scouting staff and the coaching staff. For example, we have no idea who lobbied for Lewis Cine or Andrew Booth, or on the other side, Jordan Addison and Dallas Turner. Free agents too. We have no idea who lobbied for Greenard, Gink and Cashman, or on the other side, Jeff Okudah and Sam Howell. And that information is almost never leaked. The owners know though.

[StickierBuns]

This is bush league from the Bills' owner IMO. The issue 80% of NFL front offices/coaches have is ego-driven....its still a game run by humans. This one wants credit for this, this one wants to blame someone else for that and you also end up having players you fall in love with both as a GM and coaches in the Draft....'your' guys. Its fundamentally a little problematic sometimes for a GM to pick guys that other people have to coach, like being a VP of Sales but not being able to select your sales team. Trust is necessary both ways and that usually comes from success.

But having said all that, if an organization can hit on a QB in the NFL, that's the biggest hurdle by far.

[MaroonBells]

This is Brandon Beane at the combine commenting that Coleman's poor 40 time would "help to get him." 

[badgervike]

Pretty bush league. How do you think Coleman's feeling right now?...Knowing his GM didn't want him and the coach has been fired. Beane better hope he gets the new coach right because things can get much worse.

[medaille]

Owner and GM are getting reamed in social media right now. Looks like a power play more than reality. Not a good look any way around it.

[StickierBuns]

Owner and GM are getting reamed in social media right now.  Looks like a power play more than reality.  Not a good look any way around it.

It was an unusual presser and if you read between the lines its because the owner knows this was mostly a horseshit move to fire McDermott. Scapegoating him so openly this way reeks of a PR move for the fans and media...I mean, he's giving a firing so much energy in his need to 'explain'. Its not how it goes, its usually just glossed over, put in the rearview mirror immediately. This was an angry, impulse firing from the Bills' owner and Beane gets promoted of all things. Ok, choice made....careful what you wish for.

[Vikergirl]

Seems very dysfunctional over there

[comet52]

He wants to bring back Daboll is the rumor.  Don't know if it's true.  I would have jettisoned the g.m. along with McDermott but I'm not a billionaire who gets to make the big decisions.