langleyparkjoe wrote:KazooSkinsFan wrote:langleyparkjoe wrote:Who voted "A"? Seriously.
The perpetrator admitted it a couple posts up from your question.
Hmmmm... I think based on your explanation combined with how we play, I think I'd go with a "B" Kazo. If at this point we only lost 1 or 2 games than I'd say "A" given your explanation for your answer.
Keeping everything into account and the fact its only his second year as our coach I gave them a "C" right now. It's cloudy though because you can't coach how they perform on Sundays (drop passes, tip passes, missed assignment, etc.).
I say "A" because my career has been in management and management consulting and I know how hard it is to turn around a culture. Every time I went into a disaster I was told as I went in that everyone knew it wasn't my fault and didn't blame me for it, then I spent the next however many months being blamed for everything as I fixed it. It always worked out in the end. Unfortunately I had it better then Redskin HC's. They aren't blame when they come in, but the next week they are blamed as if they'd caused it and unlike me that blame doesn't go away eventually as they make things better.
I think there is a clear culture change and players are buying into Shannahan. In his second year he started 3-1 and people got ahead of themselves. That despite a QB who sucks, a better but shaky o-line and a thin receiving corps. I don't buy into that it's deep. Lots of mediocre receivers isn't "deep."
I don't see the issue. We are better, we were wiped out by injuries. We still have a long way to go. We haven't fixed QB and that's the hardest position to fix. There is no new news. The bottom line is that with what he started with and the short time he's been here and things outside his control based on HIS performance he's done everything he can possibly do.
If I hadn't stuck to recognizing what I did and didn't control I would have let people get to me and failed. By refusing to accept that things were my fault that weren't and staying positive about what I was doing, I always did it. I was well paid, not complaining. But I'm measuring him as I wanted to be measured, by MY performance. And his has been excellent. I stand by the "A"