And they were down 21 to the Bucs and only beat the Rams 14-9. Though only the TB game was at Seattle.
So genuine question, I understand NFL coaches work insane hours and its believable, however what do they do during those insane hours? Is it all watching film? Aside from ambition, why would anyone want to be an NFL coach over college? If you're a good college coach you have job security, a nice salary, and the communities support. An NFL coach is always on the firing line and is under constant pressure, it seems unrelenting.
I hope this is exactly as it is in his planner. Our 10 year old daughter tends to come up on my daily 15 minute phone calls to my wife. Prolly don't marry an NFL head coach if you like quality time, I'd say.
Hey, when you work those hours you can't just "have time" for your family. You have to make time. I'd assume some people relish the challenge. The NFL always assimilates new strategies after a year or two, so you have to constantly adapt as a coach.
It's also the top. There's always going to be people who want to have a job at the highest level of their profession.
Recruiting would be annoying. Trying to convince teenagers with massive egos to choose your program would be tiresome. I think thats why many assistant coaches get hired, because they are great recruiters. I also think people would be shocked at how much some of the top players get paid. I think Cam Newton required 222,000, Auburn gave it to him. I'm sure Jamis Winston had a price too. So Kubiak had a mini stroke and now was fired, he's having a great year.
There was an article posted back on the RMMB about a recruit who eventually chose Texas. He was one of the top five prospects at his position so he had offers from all the top schools and the amount of wooing Texas did to get him was fucking absurd. I remember reading that one of the coaches was e-mailing and calling the parents EVERY day for several months. Not to mention all the bullshit they had to do with the kid. If someone was calling me every day to slob my knob over the phone I'd probably change my number. So... yeah I suppose getting away from that is some incentive to go to the next level. The gut reaction to a bad season seems to be just fire half the staff these days, which is stupid really because a lot of the coaches inherit awful teams and if it isn't turned around in a year or two management is convinced they're the problem, when really it's just that rebuilding typically takes longer than owners and fans would like to believe.
Kubiak removed Keenum, a guy who they were trying to evaluate in terms of his long term value to the franchise, for Schaub. Not because Keenum was doing bad, but because Kubiak was desperate to keep his job, and it was a mistake, and it didn't result in a win. All it did was take away Keenum's chance to show what he could do in a potential comeback situation. Schaub threw all those pick sixes, Kubiak kept Schaub in.
I mean the Vikings are out of it so I should be rooting for them to tank so they can get a higher draft pick, but still, this just hurts. I can only get kicked in the balls so many times.
And as if to prove this, they just threw a defenseless receiver flag on a shoulder-to-shoulder hit in the endzone. But shooting for knees should be legal... edit: And a bullshit PI. Who's this ref? He's fucking awful. Browns fans should be mad.
Everyone has a team, its not natural to be truly objective, you have to expect a bit of that no matter who is writing/reporting.