Radio stations hire their own consultants to program their stations? So what's wrong with Lerner selecting Accorsi as his consultant? The Falcons seem to be doing OK. You don't want to be selecting a whole bunch of consultants, that's just confusing and stupid. Lerner is over his head to begin with. You really think it makes a lot of sense to have Rush Limbaugh whispering in left ear, and Al Franken whispering in your right?

Man, if you had any idea how other multi-billion dollar operations take tons of time, and spend whatever it takes, and do all the homework they can in order to determine who to hire to take over as CEO or CFO or Managing Director, or whatever–while you are advocating that dopey Randy Lerner just take Acorsi's word for it?

It's a lot more complicated than either you or Lerner have ever been able to admit to, which is why it's never been done properly. You don't just take the hot name, or the guy with pedigree. If it were that easy, then everyone would simply do it and there would be no downtrodden franchises. If it worked that well, then Holmgren would still be in Seattle.

This is why the Steelers make the smart choices that last them for decades, while the Bungles and the Browns and the Cards and the Lions keep having to go back to the well every other year. The smart teams take the time, do their due diligence, and get the decision right the first time, while the dumb ass franchises just jump from one hot chick to the next, thinking that eventually one of them will turn out to be both hot and a rocket scientist.

A coin flip is a coin flip is a coin flip. Doesn't matter how many times it comes up heads–it's still just a 50% chance that it will come up tails next time. So let's stop making coin flips to determine our coaches and GMs and QBs, and let's do the work that is needed to get the deal right this time.

So my point is, Lerner doesn't need to interview anybody. Really, what's the point? That's why God created retired consultants. The experienced smart ones wearing bad toupees (like Accorsi) for actual hiring. The incredibly naive and/or dumb and/or egotistical and/or arrogant and/or egomaniacal ones (like Jim Brown and Bumbling Kosar) to spy on the current hires.

That's why I'd prefer somebody like Jim Holmgren, or somebody like him, to do the actual interviewing of guys who would be under him. I don't care if Holmgren knewwhat he himself was doing in his GM role with the Seahawks, but at least he has a far greater feel for what's needed in a hire.