(09-16-2019, 12:53 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: What's that old man going to do?
Seriously.
He and Caldwell need to evaluate the team and pick a coach that actually conforms to the players rather than expect the players to conform to him. They start that process now and fire Marrone after the season.
Do you want Jack Del Rio? Because that's how you get Jack Del Rio.
Although, in fairness, Del Rio doesn't seem like a half-bad idea right now.
(09-16-2019, 01:07 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Get rid of Ramsey and any other players who think they run the team. It's a cancer. Ramsey has managed to get inside his OWN head - how else to explain dropping an easy pick-6 he had cradled in both arms?
Yes, let's pull an Oakland and dispose of our best defensive player because the head coach doesn't like him.
(09-16-2019, 03:44 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: Personally I think this whole thing has gotten blown way out of proportion fueled by the "sports media" too "connected" via twitter. To say that the head coach has "lost the locker room" is all nothing more than speculation and/or opinion based on what was broadcast during the game. Remember, this is a young team and emotions are certainly going to play a part in how they act. Nobody except a few players and the people on the sideline knows what exactly was going on. There is speculation that Ramsey was upset either from the coverage that was called during the series (zone which kept him from playing man on Hopkins) or because the catch was not challenged. Either way it's all just speculation. Only the coaches/players involved know what really was going on.
The bottom line is that both the players and coaches need to be professionals.
I don't care that Ramsey was upset. I care about two things:
1. Doug Marrone went to the bench to yell at a player instead of focusing on the next play and either sending Ramsey to the locker room or dealing with him at halftime.
2. D.J. Hayden, Jarrod Wilson and Ronnie Harrison immediately got involved
and held the head coach back before leading him away.
The first item speaks to a total lack of composure on behalf of the coach. The second speaks to how little the players think of him. He took his attention away from the game to go and yell and Ramsey, and three players got involved with one of them leading him away from the fight. It doesn't help anyone's case that Ramsey didn't want to discuss it and Marrone told the dumbest lie possible when he said that he didn't remember why he got in Ramsey's face in the first place. As a head coach, if you get pushed back from a shouting match by three of your own players, you damn well better remember what provoked it.
