How in the name of Al Davis can Art Shell possibly be retaining his job while Dennis Green gets fired?
Sure Art is a nice guy and all but the Oakland Raiders were the biggest laughing stock of the 2006 NFL season. For any GM to remotely think that the game has not passed by Art Shell is beyond any comprehension. There is no disputing the fact that he had very little to work with on offense. Aron Brooks was hurt right off the bat and the Raider offensive line is all but laughable as Robert Gallery has yet to live up to any expectations that were set for him. Yet Shell seemed insistent and almsot defiant in running over-simplistic and predictable offensive gameplans that were highly innefective right from the outset. Losing the support of many players who jumped ship on him certainly made matters even worse. It is time for the organization to get its act together and bring in some youthful exuberance to the GM and Head Coaching positions. Replacing Shell will not be an easy sell to up and coming coaches but it is a necessity before the black hole becomes, well, .....a black hole.
In other news this Monday Dennis Green gets the big ax out in Arizona. The Fangini is perplexed. Show complete incompetence and no sense of direction for the future like Art Shell and retain your job but fire Dennis Green who has the Cardinals heading in the right direction? Fangini smells something funny....must be the odor coming from those strange fans in the black hole. Dennis Green has a proven track record of building QB's and was only given a short while to prove that he can develop Matt Leinart into a consistent elite NFL player. Fangini can see the future coming and knows that Arizona will have another head coach take all the credit and glory that Dennis Green has layed the foundation for over the past three years while drafting Leinart, Fitzgerald and Boldin. This team will improve once they get a few core pieces on defense put in place and some improvements on the offensive line. While the record does not necessarily show the improvements from one year to the next this was not Dennis Green's fault. This oraganization is certainly headed in the right direction while that other team who is supposedly committed to excellence is in complete shambles. Sorry Dennis!!! Fangini will miss your post game tirades.
In other news this Monday Dennis Green gets the big ax out in Arizona. The Fangini is perplexed. Show complete incompetence and no sense of direction for the future like Art Shell and retain your job but fire Dennis Green who has the Cardinals heading in the right direction? Fangini smells something funny....must be the odor coming from those strange fans in the black hole. Dennis Green has a proven track record of building QB's and was only given a short while to prove that he can develop Matt Leinart into a consistent elite NFL player. Fangini can see the future coming and knows that Arizona will have another head coach take all the credit and glory that Dennis Green has layed the foundation for over the past three years while drafting Leinart, Fitzgerald and Boldin. This team will improve once they get a few core pieces on defense put in place and some improvements on the offensive line. While the record does not necessarily show the improvements from one year to the next this was not Dennis Green's fault. This oraganization is certainly headed in the right direction while that other team who is supposedly committed to excellence is in complete shambles. Sorry Dennis!!! Fangini will miss your post game tirades.
Hot off the presses, Jim Mora was just fired by the Atlanta Falcons. I guess when Mike Vick says he needs to evaluate your performance you better watch out!! Warrick Dunn better be careful what he says to Mike or he could be next. Mora deserves this fate as he made inapropriate comments during a radio talk show interview earlier in the season claiming he would be willing to take a high profile coaching job at Alabama. Ultimately, the Falcons have underachieved for the past two years and Mora did not help his situation with his interview. He'll resurface somewhere else with Daddy's help.
