02-05-2016, 01:54 PM
(02-05-2016, 01:41 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: And this would lead to the point I was bringing up. If Marvin makes 'perfect football sense' after an NFL record 7 straight playoff losses and 5 consecutive one and done's, then it would follow that it would makes just as much sense to keep him after going 0-10 with 8 consecutive one and done's. There would be no point, as long as he continues to win in the regular season and make the playoffs more often than not, that it would ever make 'sense' to replace him...at least if we rely only on specific examples of occasions where it did not work out after changing coaches as the reasoning for why Marvin cannot be replaced.
You know why so many teams keep firing coaches and never getting any better? it is because they think like you. they think that the only possible reason a team could lose would be the coach. But this just is not true. talent has a lot to do with it and Marvin has had inferior talent in every playoff game except one.
so in the simplistic world were the only thing that matters is the coach I guess every team should fire their coach every year that they don't win a playoff game. but in the real world where people look at all the variables it makes sense to keep a coach who is winning instead of firing him and replacing him with someone who has not accomplished as much. if the team was losing every year then it is okay to take a chance on an unknown, but when a tyeam is winning consistently you should not fire the coach unless you have a proven upgrade. or unless he is losing with clearly superior talent.
