Sticking with staff and players who are proven winners is a smart move in the long run. But in the dog-eat-dog world of professional sports, people who carry dead weight end up being dropped into the volcano. Ask Dave Ritchie, who fought to keep veterans around that needed to be released for the good of the team.
For whatever reason, Lyle Bauer has taken Dave Berry under his protective wing. Our CEO has protected the coach despite the fact Berry lost the Grey Cup by not utilizing the running attack or developing Dinwiddie enough during the regular season to trust him to ad-lib and run in the big game.
Since that Grey Cup loss, Lyle Bauer has failed to see the error of Berry's ways and replace him with someone who exercises field generalship and makes adjustments to his roster when necessary. Our 1-5 season is clear evidence that Berry isn't head coach material.
Lyle Bauer is making a mistake by keeping Doug Berry. This will be Bauer's reward if he puts off the inevitable & refuses to terminate the head coach.
Your so right, both TO games and the game in BC, the defense gave us a chance to win. The only knock I have against them, is the secondary could be a little more physical.
Malbrough had an opportunity to light up Bruce on a catch over the middle and he just stuck an arm out.
But really, it’s 100% on the offense right now. First Glenn now Dinwiddie, the OC just doesn’t know how to call a game at the pro level.
At the college level, the guy was a failure, he has no pro level experience, and it has become glaringly obvious he is out of his league.
I do, they stink. Steve Burrato is smart enough to know that they had the whole screen-pass game open to them at any point if they needed it. That by itself would have eventually shredded the defense.
^Yeah, screen passes are an effective weapon against the Bomber defense. I'd better hold the phone on that one, we'll dial it in for the rest of the season.
Your comment about Cartwright gave me a flashback of the Reinbold years, when Joe PaoPao fell on the grenade for his head coach. Poor Joe was so choked up with tears that he couldn’t even speak during the announcement of his resignation. I hope history doesn’t repeat itself as we are subjected to suffer another torturous year at the hands of incompetent coaching staff.