Mike Bidwill running the show?!

[Jttsaz]

Interesting article in the EVT...

EVT Graves or Bidwill??

 

[pinnacle]

my perception (perhaps incorrect) is that hiring a new coach will be kind of a joint agreement by graves and micheal - and senior will go along with whatever they recommend. I think player personell moves are more graves area of control...

It is also slightly incorrect to say the cardinals were not willing to overspend for colvin and holliday...I think their offers topped everyone else.

 

[Mr.Dibbs]

From the report: "Defensively, the Cardinals were hurt when they couldn’t entice free agents Rosevelt Colvin and Vonnie Holliday to sign — an inability in part because ownership declined to overspend for either."

We offered Colvin more money but he still went to the Pats. We eventually pulled out of the Holliday deal because it became obvious that Holliday was just using the Cardinals for leverage. Am I right? THe above quote seems wrong, which is strange for the Tribune.

 

[Harry]

The dollars were okay, but the structure of the contracts remains an issue with most free agents. The Cards continue to over below league level signing bonuses because all the cash is up front, even though it's prorated for cap purposes.

 

[Sandan]

Originally posted by pinnacle
my perception (perhaps incorrect) is that hiring a new coach will be kind of a joint agreement by graves and micheal - and senior will go along with whatever they recommend.

That article in the EVT is old news. We were there when Graves said that. The press contunually want to know who has the final say in personnel decisions.

Both Micheal and Rod save this is not an issue and from the body language I beleive them. They look like to guys on the same page with slightly differernt responsibilities.

What Rod was trying to say in that comment but politely was "Look, if you insist on contuning to sak this then Ok. In reality obviously the ownership gets final say, duh they own the team"

As I would expect in any business when you are hireing a new CEO, I would expect the board of directors to be closely involved. In this case I think Rod and Mike are working togeather on this but I think it is more a case of they both have to be happy rather than one making the choice.

Moving down the food chain I would expect MB to be less involved.

Frankly you couldn't do this head coach search without the owner (in this case MB). Brighteyes asked Fassel a really good question, which was "What was the first question you asked the Cardinals", even Micheal Bidwill seemed impressed byt the question and how she made him answer. His answer was that he wanted to know what the Cardinals would do to make this a winning program. To answer that you need the commitement from the ownership, hence you need MB.

 

[Tangodnzr]

I remain highly optomistic in regards to Fassel.

From reading Jo's report of the press conference and this subject, once again I see Fassel being the right fit here.

This term "all on the same page" has crept up from both Fassel AND the Cards (ala Graves). I have seen nothing, yet, to indicate the Cards aren't meeting Fassel's criteria that he has listed to date.

It's very difficult, for me anyway, to not be impatient right now.
My ideal scenario has been for Fassel to be basically "locked-up" before he goes anywhere else, at least an agreement "in principle", whether or not fine points of the contract are yet worked out.
Those type of things don't usually happen "overnight".

I am not worried about Washington and Snyder. Sure, it would behoove Fassel to go to Washington, to get a feel for the place "there". Chicago never did concern me either.

The only one that has "worried" me is Buffalo....and I still remain optomistic the Cards SHOULD be able to prevail in that regard.

 

[RLakin]

Originally posted by Oran

We offered Colvin more money but he still went to the Pats. We eventually pulled out of the Holliday deal because it became obvious that Holliday was just using the Cardinals for leverage. Am I right? THe above quote seems wrong, which is strange for the Tribune.

You're wrong. This has been reported before. The Cards did not offer more to Colvin (signing bonus) than did NE. Urban ran the story earlier this year and MJ of KDUS has reported it as well. Believe what you want but this has been my understanding for some time.

 

[conraddobler]

You can offer more in terms of total contract value but the players pay the most attention to the upfront or guaranteed portion of the contract and in that respect New England offered more.

I am not sure about Holliday but he never really considered us anyway IMO.