Coaching Decisions
Every season brings about some coaching decisions that I shake my head at and wonder what is really going on behind the scenes. Today I learned that Lovie Smith is going to be retained by the Bears and for the life of me I can’t figure out why. Then I got thinking about it and I can’t understand why Lovie would want to stay. His entire defense was injured last season including Urlacher who missed the entire season. His Gm traded away the farm for a qb who would play behind one of the worst lines in football with no name receivers to throw to. Then his gm decided to trade away their 2nd round pick on a guy that was a bust for another team and we are talking about LOVIE losing his job? Should be Angelo who is leaving.
Raheem Morris gets to stay at Tampa Bay despite a 3-13 season. The Lions head coach will stay on there. Still up in the air is Mangini, Wade Phillips, Tom Cable and others.
It’s a tough league and teams need to win now. Coaches who have buyouts on their contracts have some good leverage now because teams don’t want to pay money for them to leave and then pay to have someone else come in and coach. I like the Bucs keeping Morris because they had a rookie qb for most of the season. I’m not a Mangini fan or a Tom Cable fan but that’s just personal opinion. If Mangini gets ousted at Cleveland then he will never be a head coach in the NFL again and he’s a young individual.
Teams and Gm’s need scapegoats for sometimes poor decisions that were made above them. It’s how the game has always been. We won’t see an Angelo fire himself for handcuffing the Bears for seasons at a time or Al Davis sit himself down because he knows nothing about today’s game. Instead we will see coaches continually fired and in some cases deservedly so.
