Wow, firings galore and even more shocking are the non-firings.
Rams fire Spagnuolo and Bucs fire Morris. Bucs probably shouldn’t have hired Morris in the first place and Spags just has had a mess and injuries to deal with…not sure if anyone could win there.
Polian and his kid are shockingly blown out of Indy. Overall, they should have done this two years ago when Polian pushed for the 14-0 Colts to tank their next two games (one at HOME) and they non-surprisingly were flat in their first playoff game and lost. Though, I guess the drafts haven’t helped. Amazingly the Colts draft better in the low rounds and getting undrafted free agents then they are at high round guys. Very weird. I wonder if this is a Luck vs Peyton thing.
Also notable was how eleven head coaches were hired in 2009 and only three are still around with one of those pretty close to being gone: Tom Cable, Mike Singletary, Jim Mora JUNIOR, Eric Mangini, Josh McDaniels, Spags, Morris, Todd Haley, Jim Caldwell, Jim Schwartz, Rex Ryan. Caldwell should be gone, some folks want Ryan gone but he’ll stay, and the Schwartz is the only one is who actually liked for making the playoffs. Amazing.
Once again, how does Norv Turner stay hired? He should have been fired three years ago. And now, starting next year, he should have been fired FOUR years ago. Chargers fans must be hanging themselves. Did their owner die and no one noticed?
Bears fire their GM and then basically push out Mike Martz. Not sure about the GM, but why do teams hate Mike Martz so much? He’s obviously got a tough personality to deal with but all he does everywhere he goes is greatly improve the offensive output of whoever he coaches and teams respond by getting rid of him. Plus there’s the Martz curse that is hitting teams that fire him. The Rams cut him off after years of success and did the “we’ll run his system without him” idea and the Rams have been a disaster ever since. The Lions had him for two years and had a huge spike of offensive output and actually won seven games his second year (their best record in years) and then the Lions fired him and had the “we’ll run his system without him” idea. They went 0-16 the next year. Now the Bears have a QB renaissance with Cutler, make the NFC title game and was on their way again this year until injuries hit and now Martz is fired again. Not sure if they’ll “run his system without him” but it doesn’t bode well for them. And you can’t say the offense was all Cutler…he’s had his share of stinker years in the past. Martz matters.
Looks like Andy Reid will come back which is good. He’s got enough success to deserve a chance to correct his mistakes.
Surprised the “fire Shanahan” hype isn’t bigger. Given how close the NFC East was, he basically sacrificed three games to John Beck after ONE bad game by Grossman and when everyone knew Beck was awful. Can’t say they would have won it but they could have been in this thing. Even funnier, he did the EXACT same thing in Denver. In 2006, they were 7-2 with Plummer. Plummer has two bad games to go 7-4 (but were still clearly in it) and he switches to a rookie Cutler who goes 2-3 and kills any chance of them making the playoffs. Just killed his whole team on one panic decision.
Oh, and Jerry Jones won’t fire himself from being GM. Nothing new there. Poor Cowboys. Maybe have the best owner and one of the worst GMs all wrapped in one.
(see every sports - NBA/NCAA/NFL thread around), but here are my weekends picks: