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Jerry Richardson's failures are actually making me sympathetic towards Fox

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I've hated John Fox's coaching style for years and have wanted him fired since 2007. However, having such a failure of an owner in charge like Fox has now is actually making me feel sympathetic towards him in the first time in years.

When Richardson fires Fox at the end of the season or decides to just let his contract expire, he WILL finally have to face the media. Every owner ever introduces the new coach. Now, even though Fox DOES deserve to be fired because of his past coaching sins, what is Richardson going to get up there and say about his decision to let Fox go this year? Say what you will about John Fox, but he's NOT a 2-14/3-13/0-16 caliber of a head coach. When we finish the season with the worst record in the league, is Richardson going to look those cameras and those reporters in the eye and make another statement akin to the "life has been sucked out of this organization" statement that everyone loves to quote from the Seifert firing? How can he do that in good conscience when it was HIS fault that we were so bad and not John Fox's?

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I don't think Fox should be blamed for this season as a whole. I mean, he doesn't have the capability to overcome this, but that doesn't mean we should just forget the last 4 out of 5 years he's been coaching the team. Last year's unit was Fox's idea of a great team and we completely fell flat on our face

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Yeah I get what you're feeling. I certainly am beginning to see more and more how nothing this year is like what Fox wanted but I still blame him for a lot of things in the past seasons. My biggest pet peeve is his lack of vigor and his offensive strategy.

Would love for him to stick around as our D's coach, but that's not likely going to happen. I don't think he will have a hard time finding a job though. Plenty of franchises will love to have a guy that can bring steady performance year after year and Fox can do that when given the freedom.

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Right, because this thread making a point about Fox not being to blame for this season is soooo much more worthless than every other thread on this front page.

This isn't the Internet of 2005 anymore kiddos. Grow up. If you're just trying to troll, at least get new memes.

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