If Shanny's Not Your Man, Then What Is Your Plan?

[SBXVII]

Originally Posted by KI Skins Fan

Where did you ever get the idea that before a fan can legitimately advocate that a Head Coach should be replaced, that he should be able to pick the coach's successor?

A fan doesn't need to have the answer in order to clearly see the problem. Shanahan has quit on the season and I, for one, don't want a quitter for a Head Coach. I know he tried to back off of his post game remarks but I don't believe he misspoke.

Also, he regularly blames his players while defending his coaches which apparently has caused some resentment among the players. Some players have been courageous enough to speak up about the intractability of Jim Haslett, in particular. Surely, there are more players who believe that they alone are being blamed for what is wrong with the team. If so, I'm sure they would view that as unfair to them. In short, I think that he has probably lost the locker room.

Not to mention that the fans need only look at Shanahan's win/loss record as the Head Coach of the Redskins to figure out that he hasn't exactly set the NFL on fire.

Personally, I'm just about done with Shanahan even though I don't know who I would hire to take his place. But, as I said above, I don't think I need to know who I would pick as his successor to justify my having that opinion. If Dan Snyder decides that Shanahan should go, then it's his job to figure out what to do next.

I wish the team could say the same thing about the fans. Especially right after a loss.

Anyway, MS was baited. Prior to the game MS said this is a "must win game" in order to stay in the hunt for the play offs. < yes he should not have said that. But he was being honest. Carolina had only won 1 game.

After the loss to Carolina, a reporter asked him about that comment and how he feels now after the loss? Again MS was being too honest and commented (as I see it) to do two things, 1: to motivate his players to start playing in a professional manner and better then they have, and 2: and to point out the obvious and that is if the players don't start playing better this team is going no where. Which means all they are playing for is to evaluate the players.

Funny that the media ignored or over shadowed the question with "oh my look what MS had to say" and not look at what the question was that was presented and why it was presented.

In the end though MS is human. He lost a game I'm sure he felt they should have won. The players didn't come to play. The defense didn't come to play. The play calls were not the best play calls at the right time. and the team lost. MS was definitley frustrated. Probably mad. and is told he had to go talk to the media.

Whats more weird is it's ok for the fans to talk this way, the media to talk this way, but don't let a player talk honestly or a coach. I think most of us figured the team win 8 games or less. Funny how a few good games at the beginning made everyone think SB or Playoffs. Now because the HC comes out and says what he says, fans get up in arms.

Also the media seemed to over look or leave out the fact MS did say after that one sentence this team statistically is still in the thick of things. Which means he knows this team could possibly pull off a play off birth but not the way they are playing and honestly thats better then most of us here thought we would be at this point. I think.