godfather
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Don't agree. You cant over rule the owner, so Manziel is on Haslam, but in the end the GM can say no to the coach, so Gilbert is 100% on Farmer. It happens, I don't hate farmer, he still has a chance to prove himself. We will see.
Exactly. A coach isn't going to over rule the GM, unless he's someone like Belichick that's also the president of players operations. Pettine doesn't have that kind of power.
It's one thing to draft a guy that's going to fit your coach's scheme. But if he sucks, who gives a fuck. Farmer must have been okay with Gilbert. So that's on him.
Unless Haslam stepped in and over ruled. I doubt that. Haslam probably didn't know enough about him to make an opinion on the pick.
Manziel was clearly a 'fan pick' that Haslam made to appease Cleveland football fans. One I doubt very few in the organization really wanted.