Jordan Black suspended for PEDs

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by The Goat

I don't get how they take any real offense to this (and I'm no fan of yours necessarily), but whatever.

Gotta feel for Andy Reid IMHO. In the past year his son died, his other seems unwell, and the thing he's put most of his time and effort into is coming to a sad end. That first one alone is enough to send many parents into total meltdown. I remember reading in one social-psych class loss of a child is the most traumatic thing a person can suffer. Also gotta wonder if it would be best for Reid to take a year, or two?

If/when he got himself together, I'd give anything to swap out our guy(s) with BA taking on final say power over personnel. Reid back to pure coaching. That's one of the better probability routes to Conference Champion and/or SB visits for us over the next decade.

You'd give anything to trade out Mike Shanahan (and I'm guessing Kyle too) for Andy Reid?

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

You'd give anything to trade out Mike Shanahan (and I'm guessing Kyle too) for Andy Reid?

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

You'd give anything to trade out Mike Shanahan (and I'm guessing Kyle too) for Andy Reid?

And have our business-focused "GM" start running personnel decisions. Genius!

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

You'd give anything to trade out Mike Shanahan (and I'm guessing Kyle too) for Andy Reid?

Wait ... aren't we supposed to judge by past successes? In 14 years, Reid has how many Super Bowl victories? How many times did he LOSE the NFC championship? Based on past performance, how is he better than MS? After taking time off he will magically recapture and improve upon his earlier success? What is the basis for such a conclusion?

Reid has had B. Westbrook and now L. McCoy - yet he can't find a running game. Third-down calls? Clock management? All of these are things Reid has been criticized for throughout his career. Aren't they exactly the things that about which certain people have criticized MS?

What makes him better than MS? I don't get it.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

Wait ... aren't we supposed to judge by past successes? In 14 years, Reid has how many Super Bowl victories? How many times did he LOSE the NFC championship? Based on past performance, how is he better than MS? After taking time off he will magically recapture and improve upon his earlier success? What is the basis for such a conclusion?

Reid has had B. Westbrook and now L. McCoy - yet he can't find a running game. Third-down calls? Clock management? All of these are things Reid has been criticized for throughout his career. Aren't they exactly the things that about which certain people have criticized MS?

What makes him better than MS? I don't get it.

Right, we'd rather trade out our two-time SB winning coach for a guy who got his team to be pretty good for a while. One coach's past success is relevant...the other's was achieved through no fault of his own.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

Wait ... aren't we supposed to judge by past successes? In 14 years, Reid has how many Super Bowl victories? How many times did he LOSE the NFC championship? Based on past performance, how is he better than MS? After taking time off he will magically recapture and improve upon his earlier success? What is the basis for such a conclusion?

Reid has had B. Westbrook and now L. McCoy - yet he can't find a running game. Third-down calls? Clock management? All of these are things Reid has been criticized for throughout his career. Aren't they exactly the things that about which certain people have criticized MS?

What makes him better than MS? I don't get it.

Forget everything else, how you can take a talent like either B Westbrook and McCoy, and dumb down the offense to where defenses don't even have to worry about them? As ACME's favorite customer says Wile E Coyote, Super Genius!

Reid is a good coach(maybe was), but nothing in his recent past says he's going to turn it around, and I certainly strongly doubt he would here. Maybe going to SD, a change of scenery and division would spark something, but at this point in time, he just looks like he's lost it. The hiring of Juan Castillo was about as dumb a move as you could make, but then, he made an even dumber one in scapegoating his "friend" and firing him.