Quote:The team had three straight losing seasons under Coughlin. It was time for a change. Weaver probably should have fired him after the 2001 season when the team underperformed and was so far over the cap they had to dump half of their roster. Would have been a good time to start over. The 2002 season was basically a joke.

 

Oh please the team lost because it needed to rebuild thats all. 

 

The fact that Coughlin was STILL able to get that team competitive enough that they STILL had positive point differentials for both 6-10 seasons should tell you all you need to know about how good of a head coach he was. 

 

He never should have been fired. All that should have been done was to get a separate GM in here that could work WITH Coughlin. Coughlin being stripped of the GM responsibility was as far as any "firing" should have gone. 

 

"Coaching" was never an issue. He was a fine head coach. 

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