How can the Eagles be this bad?

[George Cumby]

lets say reid retires or is fired

is that the end of the holmgren coaching dynasty? i remember when they were the cats ass, now they're all out of coaching or assistants

what the hell happened?

Grossly over-rated due to Ron Wolff's ability to acquire FA talent.

[wootah]

For what it's worth, I'm recreationally involved in the coaching of youth soccer teams and try to read up on the topic as much as possible. In one of the books of Anson Dorrance, legendary women's soccer coach in North Carolina, he mentions this topic as well and according to him the decline of experienced coaches stems from the fact that coaching means a continuous changing of habits & mentality.

This change requires confrontation; you must constantly fight the human nature of your players that wants to do things "just good enough". Dorrance claimed that in order to achieve success, this confrontation is crucial and the fire required to conduct this "fight" year after year, day in day out, is difficult to maintain, especially at an older age, especially already having had a lot of success in the past.

I must say I agree with the guy winning 21 out of the last 31 national championships on this topic.

[pbmax]

Reid has trouble of his own making, including having final say in personnel, but now patience has worn thin enough with ownership that they are interfering like Modell trying to get Schottenheimer to fire certain assistants every year to improve areas of the team.

Changing from Juan Castillo to Todd Bowles has been an unmitigated disaster and Castillo was a fall guy to begin with. After a very poor year last year (remember lockout, new DC, new scheme, lot's of FAs) they were performing far better this year (I think they were just over League average in most cases) but had a couple of close games slip by because of defensive failures. This change was something likely forced on Reid after a tough loss.

Bowles was the favorite of the largely FA DB corp but has been a complete disaster since the first game he took over. The main problem is that the offense was sputtering far worse than the defense, but the owner wasn't willing to can the HC and his offense.

However, even this situation is largely of Reid's making. He hired Jim Washburn as D line coach and asked him to install the Titans wide-9 defense front. Castillo was then installed on top of Washburn and asked to square the circle with the rest of the defense. It took most of last year to tweak the scheme to personnel and they were still working on cleaning up the backend with Bowles (new hire this year or last I think and former candidate for Packer DC). And now Bowles has to square his own ideas with Washburn's installation. It leads to the obvious question: who is in charge of the defense?

And why wasn't the OC/HC fired since despite a clear line of authority and stability, the offense is the worst part of the team?

[PA Pack Fan]

I've sure enjoyed his color work on MNF. He see's so much and is fun for me to listen to and learn from.

No. He has a serious "I can't STFU" kind of problem. The sooner he's back to doing what he does best, coaching, the better.

[woodbuck27]