Re-examining the Johnathan Sullivan pick

Firing Randy Mueller led to a dysfunctional organization resulting in bad free agency decisions, the horrible draft of 2003, and Haslett's live-or-die loyalty to Aaron Brooks.

I am not saying that Randy Mueller was always right and didn't make mistakes. I am saying that for Jim Haslett to make it as a head coach, he needed badly a strong general manager who could provide direction on the type of team we wanted to build, who would be mainly responsible for personnel asquisition, and who could counsel Haslett when he was screwing up. Mueller left, uproar, power vacuum in the organization, and Haslett became de facto general manager.