if you had a coach that has had zero success I think he obviously has less of a say. When you have a coach that has had a lot of success, he has an opinion that matters. and from what I took from the presser, MM basically said, a new GM can hire or fire whatever HC he wants. He'll have that power. Whoever they hire, it has to be a fit. To me, that's an obvious statement, or MM won't be the coach there. To me, that's just a a "duh" statement. If the new GM has the same vision as MM of course he's going to be the coach. If the new GM doesn't fit with MM, then MM isn't going to be the coach and they aren't going to be working together. I heard MM say, he has some input, like these are the types of people I like to work with, but outside of that, it is NOT his decision and he's not in on the interview processes or any of that.
I don't think that is out of the ordinary in any line of work. I might ask people under me in the whole structure of things what their opinion or thoughts are, but they aren't in on making the decision any further than that. When you have a good QB/HC combo, I think you first look to keep that together before you look at blowing it all up. Going in a completely new direction could pay off, but it's my opinion it goes the other way a lot faster. I think you have a HC that has built an offense around ourQB's strengths. I know everyone thinks AR is a god and infallible, but that isn't reality. Reality is, some defenses give him troubles, because he's not God and they don't play into his strengths. Like being able to use his perfect recall against every alignment and know where the weakness is presnap. It's probably not too far out of the realm of reality that if he was forced to use all new terminology that would be easy, learning new plays would be easy. running a new offense that isn't to his strengths might not be easy. it might take a season or 2 to implement it. now Rodgers is 2-3 years older and another change is going to be made. Will that be called wasting his career too?
I think every effort at this point should be in seeing if what we have can be built upon, not changing it all. I have no problems with MM having a voice. he's still not making the decision.