Thursday, January 04, 2007

Threat Condition Midnight

Hey peeps, its been a while since I posted, but since Mighty Mike is going European for many moons, I thought I should step it up. I want to talk about the ridiculous coaching situations in the NFL.
First of all, in regards to Sgt Slaughter, a.k.a Bill Cowher, I think it shows no class at all that the Rooneys gave Cowher a timeline to make a decision. Now, I love the Browns and hate the Steelers, but I respect their organization. I respect the Rooneys because they have stuck by their football philosophy for decades. They stick by their coaches; the Steelers have had two coaches (Cowher and Chuck Noll) in 37 years, that is UNHEARD OF. It shows that the Rooneys trust their coaches and don’t fly by the seat of their pants. Also, i respect the hell out of Cowher, he’s not a showboat, he plays hard-nosed football, and he has done so for his entire career. Lots of organizations take on a whole new image every 5 or 10 years, but not the steelers, they have been a rock for decades, which is I believe they are one of the top 3 organizations in football history. However, this ultimatum to Cowher shows no class and completely goes against what they stand for, im shocked.
As far as Nick “Satan” Saban as Dan LeBatard calls him, I think that people are getting way too pissed off over this. First of all, LeBatard sucks, so everything he says is garbage. As a side note, on PTI yesterday, he said that every NFL team needs a few thuggish type players in order to be a good team (which he said while saying how good the Bengals are). Absolutely moronic, Kornheiser let him have it.
Anywhoo, I can’t believe people are crucifying Saban because he said he wasn’t gonna take the Alabama job a few weeks ago and then did. This is one of those situations in which Saban couldn’t appease everyone. Had Saban said he was gonna take the job, someone would’ve cut his balls off, so what else could he have done? I think its ridiculous that people are getting this mad at him for supposedly lying.
However, I do think that what he did was pretty dumb for leaving though and frankly he has nothing to show for his 2 years in the NFL, and in fact I think this will seriously hurt his chances of being an NFL coach ever again.
When Saban came to Miami, he had an awful team with no promise, but he got the team fired up because he portrayed that he had a future plan for the team that he would stick by and eventually the team would rise. Well, it is hard to rebuild a team in only two years (or 8 if you live in Cleveland) and for him bail after two years as the coach only leaves the team in disarray and should leave Saban feeling like he wasted two years of his life.
So, the people in the media and the people of Miami should not be mad for him lying, they should be mad because he did a shitty job as a coach and continues to leave the organization in chaos.
However, I was highly amused by Wayne Hyzinga’s (spelling?) plea to THE MEDIA of all people asking for help. That’s the equivalent of asking Pat Robertson advice on how to act morally, ZING!
Laz

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