phins_4_ever
E12 FH Tailgate Gang
additional coaching thoughts...
I am reading, listening to opinions on coaching and how we have to replace Wannstedt.
You are going to replace a coach which essentially went 11-5, 11-5, 9-7 and possibly 11-5 again. I can give you a dozen coaches who can give you 10-12 wins per seson.
People fail to realize that we are not a 4-12 team. If you go sub .500 it is easy to be happy to be a 9-7 team the next year under a new coaching staff. But if we go 11-5 again this year, we fire Wannstedt how many will be satisfied next year to be 9-7 or 10-6 again?
Were we outcoached in NE? If we were outcoached on offense then we must give credit to Dave for outcoaching NE on defense because the last time I checked we held NE to 3 points and made their offense look pretty much as inefficient as NE made ours look.
What if Randy blocks and Jay either throws or runs for a 1st down? What if we scored a TD on that drive?
I have seen many coaching suggestions in the last few days and as much as I bitched about Dave I looked and I can not find who would be an alternative to what we have right now.
The only coach who would make a difference would be a "gruden" type of coach who carries the same team with emotions to a superbowl. But that is never a gurantee nor is there any coaches available I see fit to do that task.
Now let's look at the season for a minute. We are 8-5. Whose fault? Jay throws an INT (regardless if that is the WR's or QB's fault) against Houston which gives the Texans the winning FG. NE: while Dave became suddenly conservative we still could have kicked a FG twice...our 2 million dollar kicker just failed us. Indy: did Dave or Norv fumble on the Indy 15 yard line or did they miss the blocking assignment or did they interfere with their own left tackle to make matters worse? NE again: Did they miss the block which led to a sack and funble by Jay?
TN: you can argue but if our offense would not have fumbled or INT'd the game away we could have been in it as well.
So, out of the 5 losses 4 were based on one or two plays in each game. If we make those plays and we would be sitting at 12-1 right now Dave is the hero. But it essentially comes down to players making one or two more plays.
I like for Wannstedt to make many decisions better but most of his coaching mistakes did not cost us games. In every single game we were put into position to win.
Now, what coach out there would give us a 12, 13, 14, 15 or 16 game regular season...because this is the bar we all are setting.
I am reading, listening to opinions on coaching and how we have to replace Wannstedt.
You are going to replace a coach which essentially went 11-5, 11-5, 9-7 and possibly 11-5 again. I can give you a dozen coaches who can give you 10-12 wins per seson.
People fail to realize that we are not a 4-12 team. If you go sub .500 it is easy to be happy to be a 9-7 team the next year under a new coaching staff. But if we go 11-5 again this year, we fire Wannstedt how many will be satisfied next year to be 9-7 or 10-6 again?
Were we outcoached in NE? If we were outcoached on offense then we must give credit to Dave for outcoaching NE on defense because the last time I checked we held NE to 3 points and made their offense look pretty much as inefficient as NE made ours look.
What if Randy blocks and Jay either throws or runs for a 1st down? What if we scored a TD on that drive?
I have seen many coaching suggestions in the last few days and as much as I bitched about Dave I looked and I can not find who would be an alternative to what we have right now.
The only coach who would make a difference would be a "gruden" type of coach who carries the same team with emotions to a superbowl. But that is never a gurantee nor is there any coaches available I see fit to do that task.
Now let's look at the season for a minute. We are 8-5. Whose fault? Jay throws an INT (regardless if that is the WR's or QB's fault) against Houston which gives the Texans the winning FG. NE: while Dave became suddenly conservative we still could have kicked a FG twice...our 2 million dollar kicker just failed us. Indy: did Dave or Norv fumble on the Indy 15 yard line or did they miss the blocking assignment or did they interfere with their own left tackle to make matters worse? NE again: Did they miss the block which led to a sack and funble by Jay?
TN: you can argue but if our offense would not have fumbled or INT'd the game away we could have been in it as well.
So, out of the 5 losses 4 were based on one or two plays in each game. If we make those plays and we would be sitting at 12-1 right now Dave is the hero. But it essentially comes down to players making one or two more plays.
I like for Wannstedt to make many decisions better but most of his coaching mistakes did not cost us games. In every single game we were put into position to win.
Now, what coach out there would give us a 12, 13, 14, 15 or 16 game regular season...because this is the bar we all are setting.
