As much as Jones p***** me off I don’t won’t him fired just yet. I agree that a DC should have been a priority in the off season as Jones even said he may give up that position after the rebuild. Now did he mean after 3 years of rebuild or one I guess that is up for interpretation by him. I’m not saying he isn’t a smart guy but honestly at times you can see by some of the calls he makes during the game he is a bit overwhelmed. Take the last game when things started to fall apart, instead of calling a time out or at the very least change the 3 man rush strategy and hope to get the defense off the field and straighten out the coverage assignments he just let things continue on which obviously didn’t work out at all. Winnipeg scored points on 6 drives in a row. 6, that is inexcusable. There were even signs in the second quarter that Winnipeg had worked out the schemes as there were at least two majors left on the field due to blown coverage being blown but Nichols didn’t take advantage of them. Dressler even pointed out during half time that him and Nichols and Lapo got together and pointed out what to look for and they sure got it right in the second half. Now Jones should have also seen the issue of blown assignment and either rotated players or get them on the right page. That couldn’t have happened simply by how many times there were receivers left all alone well down the field. On the 84 yard pass and run by Dressler he had time to make a sandwich before the defender was in the picture and he was out of gas getting near the goal line. It is one thing if a receiver makes a good move and then just runs away from the defender but if anyone was even in the same time zone they would have probably caught him before he scored. This was a total meltdown on the secondary and even the safety.
As much as I was ticked off that we didn’t win I was even more ticked off in the fact we had the lead and it watch it vanish in about 10 minutes to the point where we trailed by at least 10. That simply can not be tolerated and that is on Jones.
I know many were pointing fingers at Crappy and he certainly should have made that kick but if you look at the whole game the Riders were actually lucky to get to OT the defense was that bad. Some also are moaning about Glenn and the two picks but why this is a shock to them is beyond me. Glenn is notorious for throwing one or two a game but he also put 4 majors on the board and 40 points total. He threw over 50 times.( So much for addressing the run game and having a balanced offensive scheme.) That should be more then enough to win 95% of the time and yet we didn’t.
This is starting to look like it has the makings of 2015 all over again. Glenn putting points on the board with the bad picks thrown in for good measure and then the defense not stepping up to get the win. Eventually Glenn will get injured and whee here we go again. I hope I’m wrong but I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
IF at the end of the season ( zero point looking for a replacement during the season) and we are are less then 7 wins then is the time to make the hard decisions on whether to ride out Jones’s contract or you start the whole process over again which I so don’t want to happen but it may be a harsh reality.
If it does happen and Jones is gone then Mac would be gone at the very same time in my books. I would probably keep Murphs if not as the GM then I would make him VP. I would not be so inclined to have one guy with all the power though. Sure there are those that can do it all but when it doesn’t work out your left with not replacing one or two guys but the whole shebang. That is costly and very disruptive to having any sort of consistency in running the show.