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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 57962, member: 289"] ESPN OTL did a piece on Andy Reid, talking about how Eagles fans have grwon tire dof him. He's won a lot of games but always fallen short. This year he had a "Dream Team" but they've performed poorly. On top of that when he talks to the press, (which means he's tlaking to the public), he gives nothing but boilerplate answers such as "That's on me. As a coach I've got to do a better job of putting our players in positon to win the game. " Where have we heard that before? The repost also said that people close to Andy have had many occasisons to see that he's a passion, caring guy and not the grumpy, mechanical coach we see at press conferences. And players love it when the coach publically blames himself rather than "throwing them under the bus". But the press and fans want explanations for disappointing play and resentment is rising. We've been all through this. We got rid of a coach who gave cliched expanations for disappoitning losses and went downhill from there. Doug Marrone isn't Coach P but his responses after the Lousiville game sound a lot like the clips they showed of Reid. Some coaches, like Coach Mac or Lou Hotlz know how to entertain the press at news conferences and get people to love them to help them ride out slumsp and disappointments. But not everyone has a knack for that. Reid had some great opportunties to win a Super Bowl. In 2002 they played a Tampa Bay team they had owned in the NFC championship game. They got a kick-off return for a score to open the game and then played very conservatively, seeming to assume that everything would go their way as it had in prior games. It didn't and they had to watch the Bucs crush the Raiders in the Super Bowl. They lost to the Panthers- the Panthers - the next year. Then they finally amde the Super Bowl and the clock amangement at the end was brutal as they lost by a field goal. Maybe if they'd won one of them, things would be different. Or maybe not. [/QUOTE]

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