(09-18-2021, 09:53 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(09-17-2021, 07:26 PM)MarleyJag Wrote: I think he was taken a bit by surprise by the nature of NFL competitiveness, in spite of assurances that he knew what he was getting into. I think he can get it turned around but it's not going to be easy. On a scale of 1 to 10, my confidence is at a 5.

In other words, he didn't do his homework and came in totally unprepared. Sounds like a pattern.

At every milestone point so far he's looked like he wasn't listening to anything anyone around him that understands the NFL would have been saying.

He hired a racist, thought NFL free agency was going to be like recruiting high school kids, seems to have drafted mostly based on whether he knew a guy already, drafted a running back in the first round with the idea of making him a receiver (it's never a good idea to draft someone high with the idea of making them change position), got fined and lost future practices for not following ota rules, took first team reps from Trevor for no reason, had the team not ready to face the Browns' backups, and didn't have the team ready for the first game of the season in the most basic of ways. I could probably cite other issues, but the above should be sufficient.

Urban has shown nothing but red flags so far, so if he's going to turn it around it's probably going to be very slow and painfully gained, because so far he's shown no ability to learn from others. Any growth looks like it's going to come from doing the wrong thing first, then hopefully learning from it.

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