Originally Posted by htismaqe:
I've been watching football for 40 years. I've seen this scenario hundreds of times. Firing Sutton isn't going to magically make Terrance Smith into a good football player. Sorry.
Many of us have been watching longer, and we've also seen cases where a new coach breaths new life into the players. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dirk digler:
Sometimes players just need a chance, like Tremon Smith. He almost took 2 kickoffs back for TD's whose to say he wouldn't be better than Nelson?
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
I think it's naive to think a position coach would change the scheme considering they were hired to run THIS scheme. It's a lot of wishful thinking, IMO.
Sutton needs to be fired right now, if only to give everybody some hope. But it's a long ways from fixing things. The whole defensive side of the ball needs gutted.
I agree it is long ways from fixing things and I know it is not going to happen because our stars are injured and Reid is loyal to a fault and loves Bob. [Reply]
Originally Posted by O.city:
What sucks is that they just DID gut the D. THeres what, like 7 or 8 new starters on that side of the ball this year?
Sadly, I don't think this front office knows how to build a defense.
Veach can get blamed, but we all know Andy is pulling the strings.
So where do we go from here? Should we just stop caring about the defense and load the offense? Should we just trade for starters since they can't draft defensive starters on their own? Gut the entire fucking thing? [Reply]