(12-16-2021, 08:10 AM)Mandeezee Wrote: Not sure I like this move. It places the team in the light of a team who caves to rumors, nationwide jokes, and overall just the stepchildren of the NFL.

But as a FAN I'll support Shad's call.

Which is what some of you half fans should've done with the Meyer situation. As a city we should've circled around the team and coach and told the rest of the league to mind their freaking business and we won't be bullied.

It now appears that as a city and team we can be bullied into managing the team how commentators and talking heads want.

I doubt Shad was acting solely on the howling of the wolves on this forum or in the media.

If reports are true that Lambo complained previously, and this is the first time it made it to Shad's desk, well, Urbz has a lotta 'splainin to do. Given that Shad's statement explicitly stated that trust and respect were not developed since the chophouse, and since then repeated reports of strife, mismanagement and unpreparedness combined with the poor showings on the field, there was plenty of actual factual evidence for Shad to act upon.

I refuse to circle around a coach who tried to bring a racist bully (allegedly) onto the staff while that person was still working through the legal matters that led to their unemployment in the first place. I refuse to circle around a coach who refuses to learn who his players are, or when they are on the field. I refuse to circle around a coach who throws everyone around him under the bus in every public setting, whether or not the fault is theirs to bear. He should have been circling around his coaches and players, and never did.

The franchise had a blacker eye in tolerating his baloney as long as we did than any ugliness over letting him go so early in his tenure.

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