05-21-2021, 10:52 PM
(05-20-2021, 02:28 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Pleas stop with this "every other team" BS.
There have been lots of team who did not fire their coach after a winning just 19 games over three seasons. Especially when the "disastrous" third season was without their Pro Bowl QB.
Not every team would fire their coach for a losing record the year after we was selected "NFL Coach of the Year".
Not every team would fire their head coach after the best season they had had in 35 years just because they lost a playoff game in the last seconds with their back up QB.
So feel free to give your opinion, but stop acting like every other team in the league would agree with you.
BTW I have to point out that if you had been running the Bengals you would have fired Sam Wyche for only winning 4 games in 1987 dropping his record to 29-34 with zero playoff appearances.
List the teams that entered a season with SB expectations, lost 10 straight, and kept the coach.
List the teams that kept a coach after 12+ seasons without a playoff win.
List the teams that kept a coach after 3 straight years of decline, and an 0-8 (or 1-11-1) in the 3rd year of decline.
And that's ignoring the worst examples, which are Shula and Coslet. Until you provide these lists, it's all salt and no substance from you.
Btw, I wouldn't have fired Wyche, as 1987 was the strike year.
(05-20-2021, 10:28 AM)XenoMorph Wrote: after 2010 we did let marvin go... then brought him back due to the lockout and a new coach would not have time with the players... Then we went to the playoffs 5 straight years. marvin did a lot without nearly the support we have seen since we hired a bad coach
Marvin wasnt on the field for those plays. he can only control so much. Also the Refs had been screwing us that whole game. even before that final drive.
That was one of at least 3 times this team should've fired Marvin.
(05-20-2021, 11:06 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: That's why Coslet will always be one of my favorite HCs. He had the balls and knew when to step away. I wished soooo many times that Marv would have done that.
I definitely respected the move. He didn't hang around to cash checks.
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