REDSKINGATOR11 Posted November 11, 2002 Share Posted November 11, 2002 Obviously SOS coached a bad game yesterday. However, all of the folks that are narcisistic and want to hire and fire a new coach each week need to look at the information below. Now it is true SOS went after some "cheap and available and Gator talent" when he got to D.C.. However, he was VERY clear with management that THEY were in charge of building the lineup. IF WE HAD A REAL GM, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE HIRED MARIO ANDRETTI AND GIVEN HIM A YUGO TO DRIVE!!! That is obviously too brash to say. However, they did hire Mario Andretti and then give him a da#$ stock car to drive. It doesn't fit. A real GM, would have matched the talent to the COACH, and not require the Coach to dumb down his talents to the teams talent level (not that he shouldn't do that, now that the team is set.) Now my point was: We had two skill players that were drafted in the first three rounds yesterday. We had three guys who were undrafted out of college. Not exactly a lineup that puts the fear of god in the other teams defense. Gardner (Round 1) - played a heck of a game by the way, although he couldn't do anything on fly routes, etc. and he is our no 1 receiver Green (Round 2) - not sure he will be around next year, you saw how much "seperation" he had on the interception in the end zone. Thompson (undrafted) - did he play yesterday? McCants (Round 5) - did he play yesterday? Watson (undrafted) - should have gotten more carries, ad nasium - but I don't know if it would have mattered - Jax was comfortable with eight in the box because we have no speed at WR Doering (Round 6) - open a couple of times, overthrown a coupld of times - no speed Jackson (Round 4) - too new to tell if he is going to do anything - not fair to judge him as yet. Matthews (undrafted) - journeyman qb at best. Now, why would you hire SOS and give him this kind of talent. Even if he asks for some of it. That is what a GM is supposed to do. Of course, we DON'T HAVE A GM. We have some sort of three headed monster that scares little children. I was jealous watching Mark Brunnell, Jimmy Smith and Fred Taylor (being wasted by Coughlin of course). Man, it must be nice to have lots of gamebreakers on your team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldog Posted November 11, 2002 Share Posted November 11, 2002 here's my response: 1. Spurrier didn't want to acquire an established quarterback because he was afraid a Drew Bledsoe type of player would want to have input and say on how the offense is run. That is part of why we ended up with the set of qbs we have now. 2. Spurrier originally didn't want to sign Matthews or draft Ramsey. He wanted to go with Wuerffel. Now, just go figure out how many wins we would have right now with DW at qb? Scares you, eh? 3. ALL of Spurrier's receiver imports were busts. Anthony didn't make it through the preseason. Green was relegated to punt return duty after not being able to beat out a #5 pick from last year, McCants, for a job in the regular rotation. Doering is what he has always been, a guy who sits on the bench. Marshall Faulk or Marvin Harrison gets more catches in a GAME than Doering has for the season :laugh: :laugh: 4. Spurrier has shown himself to be a real greenhorn at times. Going for it on fourth down at your own 40 yard line? Remember what Emmitt and Troy said about Barry Switzer when he used to do things like that in Dallas? They started to call him 'Einstein' behind his back :laugh: :laugh: Other dumb plays: Calling a pass play to the outside on fourth and less than a yard when you are averaging over 5.0 yards a carry on the ground. Refusing to kick field goals inside the 20 and instead turning the ball over on downs more than once. 5. Perhaps the real greenhorn move was publicly admitting that you don't as HC take an active interest in the operations of the team as a whole. How many successful head coaches from Landry to Shula to Walsh to Gibbs to Parcells to modern-era guys like Shanahan admit or accept that? This is perhaps the one thing Spurrier HAS learned from as he has now indicated he wants to be more involved in personnel decisions and in what happens on defense and special teams in the offseason. HOORAY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRMADD Posted November 11, 2002 Share Posted November 11, 2002 Yeah, we gave Mario a Yugo to drive --- and he drove it into a wall. I thought he was a better driver than that. The truth is that Spurrier does deserve a lot of blame for the lackluster performance of his offense. If he's the coaching genius we all think he is, he should have recognized that he didn't have the horses to run his offense. He should have adjusted. He didn't. He still hasn't. Look, there's no shame in running the damn ball. If you win, you win -- they don't put an asterisk next to it and say, "Ugly win". There are no points for style. Spurrier's ego contributed to the debacle in Jax yesterday. He abandoned the run, and his offense was stuck in the mud. No, he doesn't have the talent he needs, but at this point he should swallow his pride and just grind out a win. We can beat the Giants next week by shoving the ball down their throats. We can't beat them by expecting Matthews to throw 50 passes to a bunch of no-name receivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsanity56 Posted November 12, 2002 Share Posted November 12, 2002 no doubt BULLDOGG no doubt.pretty much posted the same stuff in another thread:cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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