First coaching scapegoat?

[CRA]

Simply put, Gettlemen is going to cost people jobs this year.  Which coach is most likely to get thrown under the bus first and fired because our or DB talent?

Bene obviously is the first player scapegoated. 

Keep losing and they will sacrifice someone.  Sucks because you lose good coaches and players when GMs are trying to cover their own asses.

[The Lobo]

good question. A coordinator for sure I think. Could be all three.

[ShutDwn]

doesn't matter who you put behind that defensive line

[Growl]

The scariest part of all this is how integrated the coaching staff and Cam are with one another.

 

The pool of coaches who would want to move on from Cam or at the very least change who he is and the way he plays is massive.

And to be quite frank, Gettleman hasn't given me any reason to believe that he wouldn't go along with that if that's what it took to make a scapegoat to lay the blame on.

[Mr. Scot]

Gettleman neither hires nor fires assistants, as was made clear when reporters asked Gettleman about then ST Coach Richard Rodgers and he advised them that was a "Ron question".

The only coach Gettleman would directly fire is Rivera, and that's not likely until the offseason (and probably not likely even then).

If an assistant coach is fired or replaced, that'll be Rivera's choice, not Gettleman's.

Worth noting that Rivera did say he'd be using the bye week to evaluate coaches as well as players.

[Bartin]

Would have to be ST. Def and secondary get a pass due to terrible personnel and scream Shula all you want but our offense is 4th in the NFL in YPG and 6th in scoring per game.

[Lemory]

I honestly dont see us releasing any coach. 

[CRA]

8 minutes ago, ShutDwn said:

doesn't matter who you put behind that defensive line

Sure it does. Peanut, Norman, Coleman, Harper played with very weak DE play almost all season last year.   We aren't even in the same ballpark in terms of DB talent.

Our DBs helped the DL often last year.  Gave them more time. 

[CRA]

8 minutes ago, Bartin said:

Would have to be ST. Def and secondary get a pass due to terrible personnel and scream Shula all you want but our offense is 4th in the NFL in YPG and 6th in scoring per game.

If Gettlemen gives people a pass then it is a blantant admission of his own failure. 

NFL doesn't usually work like that.  Given they already have started with players, coaches come next 

[hepcat]

There's honestly no reason to cut coaches yet. There's not some secret savior waiting in the wings on this coaching staff. Still a lot of games yet and even if the team keeps losing it's not going to help anything to have an even more inexperienced coach in over his head.

The season is pretty much over. The only thing that we can hope for is the young guys get experience for next year and no one critical gets seriously injured. It might be worth sitting Cam near the end of the season once we're out of playoff contention to be frankly honest.

[CRA]

8 minutes ago, Lemory said:

I honestly dont see us releasing any coach. 

Did you see us cutting Bene?

[Mr. Scot]

6 minutes ago, CRA said:

If Gettlemen gives people a pass then it is a blantant admission of his own failure. 

NFL doesn't usually work like that.  Given they already have started with players, coaches come next 

So he should fire Rivera?

If you want Gettleman to act, that's the only option because he won't fire assistants. He leaves that to Rivera.

[Bartin]

7 minutes ago, CRA said:

If Gettlemen gives people a pass then it is a blantant admission of his own failure. 

NFL doesn't usually work like that.  Given they already have started with players, coaches come next 

It's Ron's decision to fire assistants.

[CRA]

1 minute ago, hepcat said:

There's honestly no reason to cut coaches yet. There's not some secret savior waiting in the wings on this coaching staff. Still a lot of games yet and even if the team keeps losing it's not going to help anything to have an even more inexperienced coach in over his head.

The season is pretty much over. The only thing that we can hope for is the young guys get experience for next year and no one critical gets seriously injured. It might be worth sitting Cam near the end of the season once we're out of playoff contention to be frankly honest.

So then....you expect Gettlemen to say "oops, my bad...I ruined the season"? 

It is called scapegoating because the coaches wouldn't deserve to get fired.  But there will be blame and NO GM to my knowledge has ever tanked a team and taken the blame