Originally posted by NYniner85:
Originally posted by OnTheClock:
Originally posted by NYniner85:
Originally posted by CharlieSheen:
Jim wasn't great, but Kyle is starting to make his name as the biggest choker of all time because of his lack of attention to detail. This guy said he didn't know the rules for playoff ot man, it's pretty bad. I know he's an x and o god, but we need him to be a hc. It's his defense, his special teams, and his offense. No more of this I'm just the offensive coordinator I'm doing my job crap
I said this yesterday, the choker label is a made up narrative. A HC in football has a dozen coaches and 53 players, who he needs to execute everything perfectly AND have some luck for it to work out.
Acting like winning one game doesn't make you a "choker" is so silly. So if he goes to 1-1 he's not a choker? If a HC won a SB over a decade ago BUT hasn't done it again, is he a choker again?
Bills kicker makes that FG Levy isn't a choker? I mean when Doug Peterson gets fired this yr, should we replace Kyle with him…because he's not a choker? Tomlin won a SB his second yr as a HC with someone's team (that already won a SB) that was like 15 yrs ago. When does he become a choker again?
Great post. At the end of the day, if you want to objectively assign fault, you have to look at the whole picture.
It's not wrong to hold Kyle accountable for things he can conceivably control, or be reasonably critiqued for. But it IS wrong to hold to him to an impossible standard, and I've seen several people do that.
Some people seriously judge Kyle as if he has God powers, able to physically control all players on the field simultaneously.
I am pretty dang sure Kyle tells Brock in certain situations not to take a sack, and or protect the ball. We most certainly practice ball security. If guys don't do what they've been coached to do (see Spencer Burford in the Super Bowl), it then falls on the player. Period. At most, you can blame a position coach.
If there's any coach who deserves to be criticized right now, it's our special teams coordinator. Our coverage unit has been horrific, and it wound up directly leading to an injury to a guy who was near top of the league in kicking this year. I think if that doesn't improve, Kyle needs to fire him.
Agreed! No one is saying Kyle can't be criticized or shoulder any of the blame. Saying wins and losses are only for one person…who doesn't even touch the football is absurd.
Like I get it, I'm super emotionally invested in the team too, but I never let my frustration get in the way of logical thinking.
It's flat out irrational to place it all, or even the majority on Kyle. He hasn't lost the locker room, the guys on the field KNOW it's not on him at all. We have a team that has always raved about how well coached we are here compared to anywhere else. The culture, the work ethic, etc.
Kyle helped build that. When things go wrong, it's usually isolated individual issues. The problem really this year is that we've had way too many of those all at once in insane cascades where everything had to happen a certain way to cost us and it just happened to go that way.
Fluke tipped pass, injured kicker, drops, a missed block at precisely the wrong time, Campbell deflecting a would-be pick six.. Sometimes a part of that, or even on top of that, is just pure bad luck (injuries, officiating, etc), which is also stuff no one can control.
Kyle put this team into position to win at least 4/5 this year and while he may not have been absolutely perfect all year, I point to the players individually failing to get the job done when the calls were good and the plays were right there to be made.