Art Shell, Nick Saban, and the coaching perils of NFL

by James on January 10th, 2007

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You want to borrow my car?

The NFL is a demanding place to play, manage, or coach. Each week offers only 1 game. Win that game and everything is great. Lose that game and everything is horrible.

Now it you multiply losing that game by 14, you have the Raiders.

Art Shell is gone from the Raiders, because something had to be done. In other words, bad things happened so someone had to take the hit.

Get this, the… Raiders President and General Managing partner, Al Davis, called the players and asked them what they thought of the coach.

“Yo, Al, he worked us too hard.” “He favored Randy Moss.” “He was undisciplined.” blah, blah, blah. Good Bye Art Shell.

You did not hear “Art was my best friend”
or “Art loaned me his car”
or “Art let us stay up late and eat snacks”

Did we forget that the players are not supposed to be close to the head coach? If he beats you with sticks and it makes you better, then you should love it.

Was Art the problem? Not entirely. Lack of talent is the problem. Oakland has a little something going on defense, but nothing going on offense.

You take Randy Moss, always a troublemaker, Joey Porter, always a problem child, and Aaron Brooks as your big free agent signing quarterback, who is not very good and put them behind an offensive line that stinks and guess what happens? In this case the coach gets fired.

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Nick Saban or Nick Satan?

While we are at it, let’s discuss the Nick Saban to Alabama thing. Why when a coach leaves is it sin and when he stays and gets fired is it ok?

Now they are criticizing Nick for being a little harsh with people and acerbic with his comments. Hello! Nick has always rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. He doesn’t hate them. He is just intense to the nth degree.

At MSU, a lot of people were glad to see him go and a lot of people were angry he left.

As for denying he was going to Alabama, what is he supposed to say? “Yup, Alabama called. Want the job bad.”

Then if he gets passed over, how does he return to his team?

And if he turns the job down, how does Alabama save face and move on.

It is part of the game to deny you are interested until you sign on the dotted line.

Nick knew it was going to be a while before he could bring consistent winning to Miami and he loves to win and be loved for winning, so it was time to go.

Maybe Alabama ought to keep some of Nick’s bags packed.

NFL Football Fan Question Sorry, just a little worked up after watching the hokey BCS Championship of two teams we decided ought to play in the game we decided was the game for the National Championship. What a joke!

Do you think Art Shell suddenly can’t coach? Was Nick Saban rude? No wait, of course he was. Better question, did Nick Saban handle the whole process poorly?

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