OH HAPPY DAY! STEVE SPAGNUOLO FIRED

[Warner2BruceTD]

*PLACEHOLDER THREAD*

 

[krulmichael]

:lol: at "Placeholder".

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

In the meantime, I will entertain you with my assortment of "I told you so" posts which highlight why I knew the current NFL record holder for head coach with the worst winning percentage of all time would never succeed.

http://www.virtualsportsdaily.com/forum/showpost.php?p=784915&postcount=7

9/27/09 - Yes, three weeks in to his career, it was clear Spags had no clue how to manage a roster. And he still can't, three years later.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Ah, another classic.

Spags trades his best LB for desperately needed WR help, then proceeds to bench the WR:

http://www.virtualsportsdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41723&highlight=Spagnuolo

 

[Chrispy]

:wtf:

 

[SethMode]

And so continues the trend of the Eagles polluting the rest of the NFL with people not equipped to do what they're hired to do.

 

[Colonel Angus]

Because that team would be doing much better with a different coach.

:whut:

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

http://www.virtualsportsdaily.com/forum/showpost.php?p=745236&postcount=70

Spags first game recap:

I'll tell you how--with some of the lamest, most unimaginative playcalling i've seen in years.

Typical Rams drive:

1stD: Jackson runs for 3 yards
2ndD: Bulger to random scrub WR for 4 yards
3rdD: Bulger incomplete
4thD: Awesome Donnie Jones punt

Jackson had 16 carries and ZERO receptions. They threw to him twice. Thats 16 total touches, and his number was called a whopping 18 times. The game was not out of hand until late. The best player on the team, and one of the best players in the league, was uninvolved in he offense.

And I love all of those pass plays with two gus out on routes. 6 guys covering 2, Bulger with nowhere to throw, then all of the St Louis area Rams "fans" putting all the blame on Bulger, as usual. He made no mistakes, and ran this shitty, vanilla WCO offense as well as he could. Hard to score points when you ignore Jackson and all of the pass routes are 6 yard curls and slants.

Spags most recent game recap:

I'll tell you how--with some of the lamest, most unimaginative playcalling i've seen in years.

Typical Rams drive:

1stD: Jackson runs for 3 yards
2ndD: Bradford to random scrub WR for 4 yards
3rdD: Bradford incomplete
4thD: Awesome Donnie Jones punt

Jackson had 16 carries and ZERO receptions. They threw to him twice. Thats 16 total touches, and his number was called a whopping 18 times. The game was not out of hand until late. The best player on the team, and one of the best players in the league, was uninvolved in he offense.

And I love all of those pass plays with two gus out on routes. 6 guys covering 2, Bradford with nowhere to throw, then all of the St Louis area Rams "fans" putting all the blame on Bradford, as usual. He made no mistakes, and ran this shitty, vanilla dumbed down McDaniels offense as well as he could. Hard to score points when you ignore Jackson and all of the pass routes are 6 yard curls and slants.

Three years, same old shit.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

And so continues the trend of the Eagles polluting the rest of the NFL with people not equipped to do what they're hired to do.

 

[krulmichael]

W2B you been drinking again?

 

[SethMode]

Great pic under the circumstances, and he's certainly better than most, but until he actually wins something meaningful, he'll just be another Reid family failure. If anything, he is the prototypical Reid head coach if we're going based on overall results.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Because that team would be doing much better with a different coach.

:whut:

Spagnuolo has the worst W/L record of all time, and the Rams have the worst 5-year winning percentage in the NFL since 1940.

Not hard to imagine anyone doing much better. The Rams won't beat CIN, PIT, or SF, so Spags will have a one win and two win season under his belt in three years.

 

[EmpireWF]

Right now, fact is in Spags' 3 years as head coach he nearly went to the playoffs once and other than that, has struggled to win a total of 3 games.

Results aren't pretty.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Great pic under the circumstances, and he's certainly better than most, but until he actually wins something meaningful, he'll just be another Reid family failure. If anything, he is the prototypical Reid head coach if we're going based on overall results.

Oh I agree.......the Achilles heel for him right now seems to be Cam Cameron, and the fact that they have no reliable possession/short yardage options. You never would think a team would miss Mason, Heap and McGahee, but the Ravens certainly have from an offensive standpoint. They beat the Steelers twice, but I wonder how they will do in the playoffs right now.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

9/28/09

Fans should be putting heat on Spags to blitz more than, I don't know, zero times per game. Fans should be putting heat on Spags to order the overmatched offensive (double meaning) coordinator Pat Shurmer to open up his vanilla, 1970 playbook. Fans should be all over Spags for failing to clean up the sloppy, unfocused, penalty filled, unorginized play that hasnt been fixed from the Linehan era.

Browns fans (and media) are running Mangenious out of town after 3 games, and justifiably so. Rams fans should follow suit. I warned people this was the wrong hire. Spags must go, no point wasting two or three years on this guy. He's lost.

...and here we are, still letting this guy continue to take the franchise backwards from the legendary Scott Linehan (imagine that, backwards from Linehan!), two years later.

Rams are still sloppy, Rams are still at the top of the league in penalties, Rams still can't move the ball.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Right now, fact is in Spags' 3 years as head coach he nearly went to the playoffs once and other than that, has struggled to win a total of 3 games.

Results aren't pretty.

Nearly went to the playoffs in the worst division in NFL history, and finished a fantastic 7-9 with one of the softest schedules (based on winning percentage of the opponents) in NFL history.

That David Tyree catch that earned him this job seems like a million years go, doesn't it?

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

And let's not forget that the Rams shit the bed in that Seattle game against a Seahawks team that was BEGGING to lose with Charlie Whitehurst at QB that had 6 wins coming into the game.

An embarrassing national TV performance that foreshadowed two more embarrassing national TV performances this season.

 

[stevsta]

I came in this thread thinking he was finally gone

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

10/4/09, Game 4 of the Spags Reign of Horror:

penalties, penalties, penalties...no discipline, same old shit, team is terrible.

I've seen enough, Spags is shit. If the team is bad, that's one thing, but they are the same disorginized mess that they were under Lamehan. Amazingly, they've managed to get worse.

Giants defense not missing a beat without him, either.

I don't even get mad anymore, I expect them to perform terribly. I can deal with bad players, I can't deal with this lack of leadership from the coaching staff. One and done for this clown, just like Cam Cameron in Miami.

..if we only could have been so lucky!

And this gem...

And I love all of these 3rd down "give up" plays, with Jackson up the middle for nothing.

The debut of the patented "Third down give up run", a staple of the Rams playbook since 2009!

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

LOL, check this out, from Week 5 2009:

W2BTD unofficial count:

Rams carries on 3rd/4th down & short:

Kyle Boller: 2
Samkon Gado: 1
Mike Karney: 1
Steven Jackson: 1

What it should look like:

Steven Jackson: 5

This past Monday night, the Rams at one point had run SEVEN consecutive plays from the one yard line, while failing to score.

Steven Jackson had ONE carry in those seven plays. Cadillac Williams had three. Sam Bradford with a bad ankle had one.

Jackson, practically begging to enter the game on play #8, scored on the very next carry.

Some things never change. It's not the offensive coordinator, it's the fucking head coach.