Quote:Wow, one of the dumbest lines of questioning I've ever encountered. You do realize that it's implicit when he says the problems with the team are personnel and not coaching that there is the possibility of declaring the problem to be coaching and not personnel, right?

 

When Dave is asked, or just offers his thoughts on, "why did the defense get worked so hard?" he has a few choices, he can lie through his teeth and take accountability for it (basically say that Gus needs all of his all star players brought over from Seattle before the defense can stop being historically bad), he can decline to give any answers, which would always be interpreted as him not wanting to say the coaching is terrible, or he can say Gus failed to coach the guys up that have been brought in.

 

Sometimes you'll find someone in the NFL doing the second thing while a guy is about to be fired or has been fired, but you never catch guys in the NFL doing the third thing. Not talking badly about the people the team has and works with to the media is one of the biggest unspoken cardinal rules of the league.

 

Do you not understand this?