The Essence of Crappy Coaching
Tony Dungy – you are a wimp! Your Colts had no business losing Sunday’s game to New England. This is your fault, sir. 
Let’s start in the first quarter. No score. Your defense has just made a statement by putting Tom Brady on his back. So it’s Colts ball again, and here comes Peyton Manning driving down the field. All the way to the New England three yard line, in fact. Fourth and goal. GO FOR IT! You are playing against the most prolific offense in NFL HISTORY! You need points. But no. You kicked the field goal. The ensuing kick off is run back to the Patriots 38 yard line. Good field position for a great offense. Thirteen plays later, touchdown Pats.
On the next Colts possession, you are faced with fourth down and goal from the seven. Again, you kick the field goal. Well, you didn’t kick it. Vinatieri did. But you told him to! This one we can all understand. Seven yards is a lot of yards. Fine.
But going back to that first decision, you were three yards away! You left four points off the board. How many points did you lose by?
Be a man. Go for it. Worst-case scenario is you have the Patriots backed up at their own three yard line. I would say that not only did kicking the field goal deprive the Colts of four more points, it allowed New England to get a big return on the kickoff and set up the touchdown drive.
Coward. The only manly thing you did all day was ignore Belichik at the end of the game. And even then you should have punched him in the gut, just for the satisfaction of every other coach in the NFL.
Luckily for you, there was an even worse coach in action Sunday. Please tell me of an NFL coach who has been worse than Norv Turner. Everywhere he goes turns into a disaster. A lifetime 62-86-1 record doesn’t accurately portray just how inept Norv Turner is. San Diego was 14-2 last season. They are 4-4. They lost to Minnesota. Come on! Minnesota has one good player. Do whatever you can to stop this man, right?
Oh Adrian Peterson ran for 296 yards. An NFL record. It’s understandable since the Chargers had to worry about Brooks Bollinger at quarterback.
Why are things so obvious to me yet so unobvious to NFL GMs? Who hires Norv Turner? Why? I could have told you from the beginning this would end badly.
