Posted on 12/31/2015 12:51:52 PM PST by Perdogg
The Colts are planning to fire coach Chuck Pagano, ESPNs Mike Wells reported.
The news attributed to Wells flashed across the networks breaking news ticker around 3:20 p.m. Thursday.
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Grigson is the guy who should be shown the door- never did enough to bring in blockers to protect Luck, never brought any talent in to fortify the defense, never should’ve been given the job...
Nick Saban, come on down!!!
Too bad the Cowboys wont fire Jason Garrett.
I guess Jerry Jones’ ego is too big for that!
Cowboys need to fire Jerry Jones.......I only wish.
Even better!
Agree. Garrett is terrible. Last year he was carried by a great team, but 8-8 is his norm.
Speaking of Harbaugh, would Indy possibly try to woo him away from Michigan?
It's a testament to JJ's inability to install a professional personnel system.
Woody Johnson loved Rex Ryan, but could you imagine Johnson retaining him as coach after his last 2 disastrous seasons with the Jets?
Maybe off topic, but I don’t understand people like Jerry Jones.
In that, he was a successful oilman, and made his fortune in the oil business. But in running that business, he didn’t do it all himself, he hired the best people he could find, and let them do their jobs, and let them make changes as needed for the business to succeed.
So it seems to me, as a sports team owner, why doesn’t he do the same thing? Hire the best football people he can find, and then let them do their jobs. Hire the best GM he can find, and let that GM hire the coaches, make player personnel decisions, figure out how to work with the salary cap, and all the rest of the details involved in building a football team. Find the best football men you can find, let them get the best players they can find, and let them do their jobs.
Maybe I’m missing something about egotistical micro managing owners like Jerry Jones, but it sure seems obvious to me, that they don’t run their sports teams the way they ran the successful businesses they all have.
The irony is that Woody Johnson was a much bigger problem for the Jets than Rex Ryan was. You see it time and time again: These owners who insist on getting involved in the operations of their teams usually cause a lot of problems. Too many of them really function like nothing more than a die-hard fan with a lot of money, and they are rarely ever equipped to make operational decisions for a sports team.
Yeah, Jones lets the NFL leading rusher go, has no decent backup for an injury-prone quarterback, and lets the best receiver on the team skip training camp, then has the receiver spend much of the season out with injury, and this is Garrett’s fault?
He’s still trying to prove that he’s smarter than Jimmie Johnson!
See Post #14. He didn’t buy the Dallas Cowboys because he thinks he can run it as a winning team. He bought it as a toy. It should also be remembered that the value of an NFL franchise usually rises without any regard to how successful the team is on the field ... so Jerry Jones is a smart businessman even if the Cowboys go 2-12 every year for a decade.
It’s a good point. Having a GM act as a buffer between the owner and the team would have kept Jones from hanging onto some of the bad players he favored. Jones is his own worst enemy.
The players love the guy. As do many people around the league.
——Agree. Garrett is terrible. Last year he was carried by a great team, but 8-8 is his norm.——
Care to elaborate on why last year’s great team wasn’t great this year? I mean, if the coach was the same, shouldn’t the team been the same?
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