ESPN ran a story on last night's edition of SportsCenter that indicated that Mike Sherman, Mike Martz and Jim Haslett were all likely to be interviewed for head coaching vacancies this offseason.
I am dying to know why Martz and Haslett would be deemed worthy of another opportunity, especially so soon? Mike Martz may be an "offensive genius" but he's lacking in all of the other important qualities that make a coach successful in the NFL. He can't manage a game clock, he's terrible with the use of timeouts, he's clueless on the replay challenges, he favors the pass nearly three times as much as the run and he doesn't have a shred of credibility on the defensive side of the ball.
As for Haslett, he doesn't even have the specialist's "genius" label to fall back on. His teams are routinely underprepared and he and his players are always making excuses for why they don't win games. Jim Haslett is the rare coach in the NFL that, I believe, makes his team worse. I can't think of a single team in the NFL that would be better off for having one of these two losers as their head coach.
It's time the NFL took a good look at their hiring practices. If a guy with a career record below .500 (Haslett) and another who mismanaged the most prolific offense in football history (Martz) can get jobs immediately after being fired, the NFL has a lot to answer for.
I am dying to know why Martz and Haslett would be deemed worthy of another opportunity, especially so soon? Mike Martz may be an "offensive genius" but he's lacking in all of the other important qualities that make a coach successful in the NFL. He can't manage a game clock, he's terrible with the use of timeouts, he's clueless on the replay challenges, he favors the pass nearly three times as much as the run and he doesn't have a shred of credibility on the defensive side of the ball.
As for Haslett, he doesn't even have the specialist's "genius" label to fall back on. His teams are routinely underprepared and he and his players are always making excuses for why they don't win games. Jim Haslett is the rare coach in the NFL that, I believe, makes his team worse. I can't think of a single team in the NFL that would be better off for having one of these two losers as their head coach.
It's time the NFL took a good look at their hiring practices. If a guy with a career record below .500 (Haslett) and another who mismanaged the most prolific offense in football history (Martz) can get jobs immediately after being fired, the NFL has a lot to answer for.
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