14Red
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Just want to get this out there and have a calm, adult conversation with you guys on the fan/ media's influence on sports teams. I'm incredibly tired of this incessant push to fire coaches. Now at the college level, the seasons over, ok. At the NFL level, we are just over half way through the season and it's the same thing. If you win, you're safe for a week, if you lose, and if you lose multiple games in a row, people clamor for coaches to get fired? Frank Reich got canned today for the Carolina Panthers. He was hired before this season, so he's been with the Panther for all of 11 games. NO ONE picked the Panthers to be any good this year, no one. They have a rookie QB and lots of holes in that roster. How in the heck can he be evaluated fairly as a coach?
Are we at such a point in fandom and getting clicks that just talking about the games isn't enough? We have to fire coaches and create stories to have things to carry through a week? Mike Vrabel with the Titans, pretty successful overall, had major injuries last year and are kind of in a rebuilding mode, is on the hot seat. Zach Taylor of the Bengals will be getting some heat and they've been one of the better teams in football the last 3 years. Joe Burrow is hurt. Is that Taylor's fault?
Part of it is the fact that fans simply do not blame the athletes they worship enough. I mean the guys who are actually making the mistakes don't get held accountable. It's got to be the coach's fault, right? Who are the better run organizations in football today? Chiefs? Ravens? Steelers? Andy Reid, John Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin. Long LONG time coaches who don't have fans and media in their cities dangling their jobs over their heads after every loss. Are they winning? Ravens won the SB back in 2012 and have been in the playoffs less than they've out of the playoffs. Steelers last SB in 2008.
Stability matters.
Are we at such a point in fandom and getting clicks that just talking about the games isn't enough? We have to fire coaches and create stories to have things to carry through a week? Mike Vrabel with the Titans, pretty successful overall, had major injuries last year and are kind of in a rebuilding mode, is on the hot seat. Zach Taylor of the Bengals will be getting some heat and they've been one of the better teams in football the last 3 years. Joe Burrow is hurt. Is that Taylor's fault?
Part of it is the fact that fans simply do not blame the athletes they worship enough. I mean the guys who are actually making the mistakes don't get held accountable. It's got to be the coach's fault, right? Who are the better run organizations in football today? Chiefs? Ravens? Steelers? Andy Reid, John Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin. Long LONG time coaches who don't have fans and media in their cities dangling their jobs over their heads after every loss. Are they winning? Ravens won the SB back in 2012 and have been in the playoffs less than they've out of the playoffs. Steelers last SB in 2008.
Stability matters.