Quote:I'm not a Gus fan, so keep that in mind as you read this. As bad as things seem at the moment, (and that loss to Indy and the way it happened does indeed suck...) let me ask a question; who would you replace Gus with that ya'll think you could guarantee would do better than Gus who is actually available and would be willing to come here?

 

I suggest that we put the fire Gus vibe on the back burner for a little longer; at least until we can no longer reach 6-10. That means that the moment... the very moment... we hit 7 losses Gus should be given his walking papers and we let someone else finish the season as an interim HC. I personally consider the hiring of a rookie HC to have been a bad idea given we had very little veteran player experience to help all the new rookies come along. That is/was just too much inexperience on the field at the same time. But... this was Caldwell's call... and Khan's too, for that matter. Maybe instead of shucking out all that money on swimming pools and a big billboard/scoreboard he should've invested those big bucks into enticing  a big name coach with playoff experience out of retirement to coach here. But, it is what it is, and now this is what we've got.

Smashing good job 'ol boy!

 

If... on the other hand... we do manage to pull out 6 wins this season, then I think we shouldn't be too quick to pull the trigger on sacking Gus. But of course that means enduring more of what we've seen too much of already. So here's the alternate idea; next week we play the bucs. The bucs have a rookie quarterback and are eminently more beatable than the dolts are... even without luck. If it should prove that we fail to beat a team with a rookie running the offense, then maybe... just maybe it's time for Khan to intervene in this debacle and pull the plug on the Gus juice and let him find employment elsewhere.

 

Yup... we should've had the dolts today; had them down and everything. But I don't think we should let the dolts be the 'benchmark' that determines what we do. If we can't get a win from the bucs, maybe it's time to say bye to Gus.

 

Teams often have a way of "correcting" things. Sometimes, they over-correct. Coughlin was tough and strict, and it wore on the players. So we went with a player coach in JDR. TC got involved with free agents and drafts, so naturally we had a 3-headed monster of JDR/Shack/(financial guy, cant remember his name anymore) to follow him. When that didn't work, we went back to a more "disciplined" approach and experienced approach in Mularkey (famous for pop quiz asking players random unimportant info to check if they were paying "attention to detail").

 

Khan, on his first year here, saw a coaching staff built with tons of names that made people think of a coaching all-star team. It was a very experienced coaching staff, from top to bottom. This of course, was a failure under Mularkey. Naturally, the following hires went the extreme end of the pendulum with a very inexperienced GM, an inexperienced HC, inexperienced assistants, and inexperienced players.

 

And now we are back full circle again...experienced HC, experienced GM, experienced assistants....less "friendly" more discipline.

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