Scholarship table
I don't know much about Reich, but he went to the playoffs with Jacoby Brissett and Phillip Rivers, and finished one game out with Carson Wentz.There are worse choices for a team that's lacking at QB.
He didn't go to the playoffs with Brissett. Unless you're talking about 2018, when Brissett backed up Andrew Luck.He did go to the playoffs as a wild card with Phil Rivers, but so did Norv Turner, Anthony Lynn and Mike McCoy. Rivers is a HOF quarterback, after all, and he played reasonably well his one year in Indy, when they benefited from one of the league's softest schedules.As for the Wentz year, you're burying the lead. Needing a win to secure the playoffs, the Colts lost a home game to the Raiders and then decided not to show up in week 18 and got blown out by the league's worst team.I don't know that Reich is a bad coach. But I wouldn't be excited if I were 82 or any other Panthers fan. Nothing he's done screams that he deserves another chance this soon.
Yeah there have been plenty of examples where NFL coaches are fired and meet success at their next gig. But those guys (think Schottenheimer, Reid, Reeves, Carroll) usually have SOMETHING that they have done that leads you to believe they can do that. They either won as head coaches and had their teams fall apart around them (Reid) or they went back to be successful coordinators (Carroll...who of course also had success at USC.)Reich doesn't fit that profile. Wags brought up Whisenhunt in a different context, but that seems like a better comp for a guy like Reich. Which doesn't look good for MU82 and the Panthers.
Shanahan needed to challenge that. It was fourth down, a huge play, and the only thing Shanahan would've been risking was a first-half time out.It was obvious when Smith got up that he thought the play might be reversed if challenged. Bad coaching cost the 49ers a 7-0 deficit.
That’s not the only thing he was risking. If he would have been wrong he’d only have one left the rest of the game. But he should have challenged.
Was it a catch or not?
Rough start for the NFL here.
Josh Johnson is still around huh?
Not sure I understand how Purdy can come back in now, but couldn’t earlier.