Hervoyel said:
I have no stomach for headhunting right now. All season long I wanted the Dom Capers regime gone and I've got what I wanted. Watching him get fired isn't any fun though. I never thought it would be fun. I just thought it was necessary.
Why don't we spend a little while hoping that Dan Reeves and Bob McNair did the right thing? Why not try and take an optimistic approach to this for a change. 2005 is over so lets see what happens. Clearing out the coaches but leaving the GM says that we've got some talent. Man I hope we don't end up firing the GM after 2006. that will mean that we had bad coaching AND no talent. I just sat through 2-14. I don't want to see it again. I don't want to be sitting here next year talking about the Texans playing the "Vince Young Bowl" or anything like that.
Aren't you guys sick of demanding that people be fired yet? I know I am and I'm the guy who made the pink bar of soap avatar in the first place. Enough is enough.
Amen brother.
Most of the picks that people point to as busts it is too early to tell with yet.
And for those who fault CC for PBuc, I have to say there are any number of y'all who woulda been mad had we stayed pat with an aging Aaron Glenn and Marcus Coleman in our secondary. They saw something in Pbuc that they thought they could coach up, and at this point it looks like they were wrong. In any business, you take some risks--some pay off, others don't. Nature of the beast.
And for those who fault him for the Oline, you can go through all the hindsight drafts all you want, but since our franchise has existed, 2006 is prolly the first really good draft for linemen. When we first were in existence, Boselli passes the physical but Roaf doesn't--thus changing history. And in this last offseason, Pace just was using us to get his deal done.
CC's had his hits, and he has had his misses, but generally, when I have heard him speak about past draft stuff, what he is saying makes sense. It really does take time to acquire players and depth, especially now that teams understand the free agent market better and have planned for it. (This was not the case when the Jags and Panthers came into the league).
Until we get better, we will continue to overpay for FA because players careers are short, and you need to be paid extra to risk being on a doormat team for your career.
I think people need to take a chill pill, get out of reflexive complaint mode, and hope we get to enjoy football next year. With what a real team looks like. Personally, I think if we have a good season next year it is a total bonus--usually, it is fair to start seeing results two years after a coaching change.
BTW, I reallly think that unless someone gives us the moon, sun and sky, we will have Reggie Bush here next year. For those of you who are CC haters but love Bush, I think because Casserly is on thinish ice these days or short leash or whatever sort of non-powerful analogy you want to make, he would be hard pressed to give up on Bush because Bush is such a popular pick.
The Chronic is selling it hard, the hype machine is selling it hard, etc. If CC was in more a position of strength and had all the confidence in him of the owner, he might be more tempted to sell a trade down. But I betcha we get Bush just because the popularity of that pick is overwhelming to the general public and it is an easy marketing sell.
Sorry if I just rained on the latest lynch mob....I just haven't seen a really good case made for why Casserly has to go, and who the supergenius is out there that is gonna replace him. It is hard to evaluate Cass because of him getting the picks the coaches want, but it just is what it is.
(BTW, is it just me but do y'all get bummed seeing all the pointless basketball scores scroll at the bottom of the screen--college basketball is the pits until March. How many days until the draft and training camp and the beginning of the season?????)
