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Marrone ... Gone...NOT Gone

Scooch said:
All fair. Just that saying they destroyed the team makes it sound like they inherited a winning franchise and ruined it. More that they had a one season run and reverted back to being lousy.
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Wait, are we still talking about Marrone?
 
FRANKIEFAN said:
Coordinator in the NFL. He doesn’t like recruiting.

He’s done better than any other NFL coach who’s had trash QBs. He might get another shot.
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Really think so? John Harbaugh won a Super Bowl with Joe Flacco. Flacco is a terrible QB. Doug Pederson won a Super Bowl with the same Nick Foles that Marrone benched. While Marrone certainly hasn’t had an elite NFL QB plenty of others have done better with the same level of QB talent. Roll the history book back a tad an the Ravens won another Super Bowl with Trent Dilfer. Think Marrone could? I got one for one do not but then again this is all just an opinion exercise.
 
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The Jags are a poorly run franchise. Coughlin was brought back but led the team to most NFLPA grievances and famously ran off their franchise CB (Ramsey). The GM gave two horrendous contracts (Foles, Norwell) while not giving one to their DE (Ngakoue).

Doug hasn't been great however he's not the main issue.
 
If Doug didn't do a good job here, we'd be glad he was gone, as were with G-Rob. He did the heavy lifting in getting this program back off the floor after the G-Rob fiasco. And I think we all understand that being a head coach in the NFL is the pinnacle of a coach's career - unless his temperament is more that of a college coach, in which case it would be to because the head man at a "destination" school and contend for national championships. But Doug found out that the college game wasn't the 'dream job' he had hoped and our hopes that he would stay and become the football equivalent of Boeheim and Desko were dashed.

the 'dream job' quote may or may not have haunted him but it certainly haunted us. if this is you dream job, why would you walk away from it? I would have liked for him to give a news conference or an interview to announce he was leaving and why. Instead all we got was his introductory news conference for the Bills where we weren't mentioned. then he walked away from that job. In both cases, the job wasn't finished. We were just about to enter the ACC needed Doug to stay and manage the conversion to a stronger conference with new recruiting areas, a bigger budget and better facilities. We wanted him to turn us into an ACC contender. Bills fans wanted him to turn them into regular playoff contender. He came off as a guy who don't finish jobs and who burns bridges.

That said, i could never bring myself to root for him to fail, both because he did get our program going again when we were at a low ebb, and that he was a Syracuse guy and having a Syracuse guy have success in the NFL is always a good thing. I'm sorry things didn't work out in Jacksonville and I hope he'll get another chance at a head job.
 
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"the 'dream job' quote may or may not have haunted him but it certainly haunted us. if this is you drama job, why would you walk away from it?"

i've rooted openly for his demise ever since he screwed us. he pledges loyalty and once the ship starts taking on water he hijacks the last lifeboat , smiles and waves .
 
tbonezone said:
"the 'dream job' quote may or may not have haunted him but it certainly haunted us. if this is you drama job, why would you walk away from it?"

i've rooted openly for his demise ever since he screwed us. he pledges loyalty and once the ship starts taking on water he hijacks the last lifeboat , smiles and waves .
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cool
 
tbonezone said:
"the 'dream job' quote may or may not have haunted him but it certainly haunted us. if this is you drama job, why would you walk away from it?"

i've rooted openly for his demise ever since he screwed us. he pledges loyalty and once the ship starts taking on water he hijacks the last lifeboat , smiles and waves .
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Doug can coach but he is a total tool.
 
Didn't somebody once say "You are what your record says you are?" He's a %450 coach who most likely will be out of a job after Sunday. No animosity here, just stating a fact and an opinion.
 
I was in his corner, before he came to SU, but he snowed me with his "dream job" spiel. I do have to wonder where SU ball would be, if he'd actually had the inventory for what he was selling. Turns out he was Old Mother Hubbard...
 
P Vasiloff said:
Didn't somebody once say "You are what your record says you are?" He's a %450 coach who most likely will be out of a job after Sunday. No animosity here, just stating a fact and an opinion.
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He led the Bills to their first winning season in over 15 years and led the Jaguars to the AFC title game.

You’re not going to have a good winning % when you coach two perennial loser franchises. He did well at both stops, given the circumstances, IMO. Syracuse too.
 
tbonezone said:
"the 'dream job' quote may or may not have haunted him but it certainly haunted us. if this is you drama job, why would you walk away from it?"

i've rooted openly for his demise ever since he screwed us. he pledges loyalty and once the ship starts taking on water he hijacks the last lifeboat , smiles and waves .
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So do most people in every job everywhere. If they’re able to. Or they stay at their job miserable and make everyone else miserable around them. All this handwringing because he left a job to upgrade his position is silly, given that most of this board has done the same thing.

I told McDonalds it was my dream job in my interview. Ronald is still a little upset when I left to go off to college.
 
qdawgg said:
So do most people in every job everywhere. If they’re able to. Or they stay at their job miserable and make everyone else miserable around them. All this handwringing because he left a job to upgrade his position is silly, given that most of this board has done the same thing.

I told McDonalds it was my dream job in my interview. Ronald is still a little upset when I left to go off to college.
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The worst was when people here were mad at him for taking his OC with him.
 
OrangeDW said:
He led the Bills to their first winning season in over 15 years and led the Jaguars to the AFC title game.

You’re not going to have a good winning % when you coach two perennial loser franchises. He did well at both stops, given the circumstances, IMO. Syracuse too.
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He’s footballs equivalent of Bora Milutinovic - so far - but I could see him going further. Maybe.
 
djorange1989 said:
Eh they can deny all they want, he is getting canned. Two years of garbage football after almost making the Super Bowl is the end. Maybe Sean Payton will bring him back to the Saints
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He was good at getting Sean's coffee
 
kirbivore said:
He was good at getting Sean's coffee
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Wasn’t he Off Co for Payton? Pays what? A cool mill a year? I am more than happy to deliver coffee for a mill per year. Where can I sign up?
 
Cusefan69 said:
Wasn’t he Off Co for Payton? Pays what? A cool mill a year? I am more than happy to deliver coffee for a mill per year. Where can I sign up?
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He was the OC of the Saints the same way any Patriots DC is under Belichick. We all know who the real brains of the operation are.
 
qdawgg said:
So do most people in every job everywhere. If they’re able to. Or they stay at their job miserable and make everyone else miserable around them. All this handwringing because he left a job to upgrade his position is silly, given that most of this board has done the same thing.

I told McDonalds it was my dream job in my interview. Ronald is still a little upset when I left to go off to college.
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Exactly. I changed positions last year after 10 years. First 8 years, it truly was my dream job that I wanted to retire from. The position evolved and the last 2 years were hardly my dream job.
 
Hmm! Remember Ogeron a few years ago.. DM will likely end up Offensive Line Coach in the NFL...
 
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