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That was the first insight into how Booger thinks. Campo was promoted because he would not be expensive and the team "liked" him. Remember that? That was important to Booger and after he'd said adios to a HC that a lot of players feared and respected, he brought in a "players' coach" with Switzer. There there now, all better? Ole mean taskmaster Jimmy is gone. Can't we all be friends?
He got rid of Gailey prematurely and admitted that but then exacerbates that with the wrong hire and the wheels were set in motion. What Booger did not understand was that he needed a specific kind of HC, a rebuild HC. He liked to use the term "reload" but that wasn't the case at all, it was a rebuild and the fans would have been OK with that because they'd endured the first one under Booger's ownership. There had been a very bright light at the end of that tunnel.
Then he makes a brilliant decision, although the motive was unclear at the time, to bring in Parcells and shocks the NFL world by actually getting along with him. He went from giving the players a HC that they liked so much they buried him and a 15-33 record to one known to get inside players' heads and mess with them. Regardless of the motive, it was a great move, just didn't work out but he had learned from his Gailey mistake and actually gave Parcells an extension and an extra mil to stay for a 5th season.
While that 2000 season was a disaster, there were some hard lessons learned by Booger. The difference with Booger and these other owners that don't run their own show is that we've watched all of the mistakes he's made, we've witnessed every wrong call in his effort to get back to the SB because he didn't understand how he got there in the first place.
What is unfair is to not give the man credit for learning from his mistakes. The team gets better at drafting so it must be someone else, couldn't be that he learned the voices he was listening to were just telling him what he wanted to hear and not what he needed to hear. He hasn't changed, he is still a watch the ball GM, seduced by star power and all about the entertainment factor but in today's NFL, is he wrong to think that way?
This thread serves a very good purpose by highlighting how bad it was and how far he's come since then. Is he great? Don't think so but he is much better. He might even make a good GM someday.
He got rid of Gailey prematurely and admitted that but then exacerbates that with the wrong hire and the wheels were set in motion. What Booger did not understand was that he needed a specific kind of HC, a rebuild HC. He liked to use the term "reload" but that wasn't the case at all, it was a rebuild and the fans would have been OK with that because they'd endured the first one under Booger's ownership. There had been a very bright light at the end of that tunnel.
Then he makes a brilliant decision, although the motive was unclear at the time, to bring in Parcells and shocks the NFL world by actually getting along with him. He went from giving the players a HC that they liked so much they buried him and a 15-33 record to one known to get inside players' heads and mess with them. Regardless of the motive, it was a great move, just didn't work out but he had learned from his Gailey mistake and actually gave Parcells an extension and an extra mil to stay for a 5th season.
While that 2000 season was a disaster, there were some hard lessons learned by Booger. The difference with Booger and these other owners that don't run their own show is that we've watched all of the mistakes he's made, we've witnessed every wrong call in his effort to get back to the SB because he didn't understand how he got there in the first place.
What is unfair is to not give the man credit for learning from his mistakes. The team gets better at drafting so it must be someone else, couldn't be that he learned the voices he was listening to were just telling him what he wanted to hear and not what he needed to hear. He hasn't changed, he is still a watch the ball GM, seduced by star power and all about the entertainment factor but in today's NFL, is he wrong to think that way?
This thread serves a very good purpose by highlighting how bad it was and how far he's come since then. Is he great? Don't think so but he is much better. He might even make a good GM someday.