fetus wrote:this is simply ridiculous,
if we fire every coach after 3 years then we will be in this position for the rest of the history of the NFL.
There is a reason that people laugh at us when we try to say anything positive about our team and the reason is our blatant over-reaction to every word spoken by players or coaches.
I am glad Shannahan said what he did, and I hope he meant it how everyone thinks he did, you have to put a fire under the whole organizations ass if you want to win games, and by him saying this, maybe it will encourage our team to not give up, maybe they will think "hmmm if i don't give it my all these last few games, I may no be here next year", and let's think about these players on our team... how many of them can actually go to another NFL team and start.... not a lot, so guess what, time to play and play hard, or you could be gone. That can also be directed toward the coaching staff.
Every team will have a bad game/season/lose to teams they shouldn't... didn't the rams beat the saints by like 40 points last year or so...
If Shanny and the coaching staff is gone after this year, then we will be signing $100 million fat pieces of *sh$t* again and we will have to live with 2-14 for the rest of our lives.
You have to give the staff a chance, although Haz can't coach high school d's and DeAngelo can't cover a baby with a blanket, you have to wait til all the pieces are in place and we actually have a team that can finish a game and play d and o.
Did you really expect our secondary to be good this year... who did we bring in, Cedric Griffin, Brandon Meriweather, Madipoo Williams.... wtf is that. To go with MeAngelo, Josh Wilson, Reed Doughty, and DeJon Mustard.... we have no one there!If we go through this coaching carousel, that we are all so used to, again, we are in the same boat we were 2.5 years ago, but we have a franchise QB.
If Shanny goes and we bring in a few secondary pieces, and go to the playoffs next year or when ever he is gone, and actually look good,
remember who drafted RG3 and made the deal possible and who rebuilt this team from almost scratch. Remember who found 2 decent and 1 damn good running backs way late in the draft.
If he goes credit who actually built this team when we become something
Who's responsible for these players being here ? The coaching staff is! Everyone is entitled to their opinion and if you want Shanny to stay fine, if you want him to go that's fine too. Both sides are making some valid statements that should be acknowledged. You can say it takes 5 years to right this ship and you may be correct but we could and should be further along than the same record at the same point in the year 3 years in a row losing to a 1-6 team at home. This secondary isn't any worse personnel wise than last years with Atogwe and Landry who were both injured yet it's performing worse (maybe Raheem is to blame, I don't know). I think it's fair to criticize the head coach at this point and if you want to defend him and say he should stay, don't point out the players being bad..the same players he drafted or signed in FA. You can argue cap hits, FA $ being spent on Garcon, etc but at the end of the day this is the team the coaching staff selected.