Joe's body of work is good, not great. Too many of the people on this board, want to give too much credit (great) or not enough (sucks). what some of us are looking for is people having the ability to analyze and not loosely through around the extremes.
I think this boils down to miscommunication.. at least in this instance. I said that Marciano is a "great" special teams coach and that I think alot of people here would agree that we would like to see him stay. I didnt say "GREAT!" or "OMG AWESOME!" or even "one of the best in the league".. all i said was "great".
Now.. in this case, my interpretation of "great" was simply "a good coach that does his job well".
You then made the comment that he wasnt "great" until mathis came along and Stanley's troubles fall on his plate.. I disagreed.. and you became amazed that i have been "brainwashed" or "easily swayed" into beleiving we had the greatest coach of all time on our team.. etc..etc..
I think that.. perhaps.. you shouldnt go into every post with the idea that the person's opinion is false and based on ignorance. You may be surprised to find that between the annoying posts that are ill informed and not thought out.. there are actually people posting here who, in some cases, either know what they are talking about, or are simply posting an opinion to see what other people think.
in my case.. I was sitting around thinking about who we were gonna get as our new coaches.. and the thought struck me that I wouldnt mind keeping Marciano because I like what he has done with our special teams. I didnt just take a break from my Marciano worshipping shrine to come here and post about his "GREATNESS!!!!"
You say that you are amazed how people will just fall over themselves praising someone if they do one thing right.. I am amazed that there are so many people on this board who will forget everything we ever did right the moment that we start doing something wrong. In this case.. im surprised that you think our special teams have sucked for 4 years when they have ACTUALLY BEEN one of our strong points. Im not making that up.. people have been happy with our special teams for a while now.. or at least..i havent seen anyone complaining about anything except our lack of "take it to the house" speed.
Anyway. All of us are tired of people posting hair brained ideas and pointing fingers.. but we should at least make an effort to view each post individually from other posts we have read.. otherwise everyone is gonna be biting everyone elses head off.