Anyone holding a grudge can only justify that in terms of holding it against the Joneses. And some of us have the humbling recall that we also thought hiring a college coach to be crazy at a moment in time when the NFL had never... never... seen any college coach make the leap and have success. Jimmy Johnson, I'm sorry to have doubted you. But I doubted you a long time, actually.
This isn't hiring a sure thing, but the surest thing that even came on the market this off-season was the guy who we had here and who left. No one else was/is a hands-down obvious winner. And the two most widely applauded options clearly already had their minds made up where they wanted to go since they didn't even bother with seeking an auction for their services... bee-line to NY... bee-line to CHI.
Some of us also have the humility to recognize we really can't even legitimately criticize the process since we really can't pretend we had any mics or cameras behind those closed doors that would allow us insight into what discussion took place when.
Football is a consumer entertainment choice. I will disengage if at some point I have no real reason to feel it's entertaining. I've done that in the past. I'm doing it right now, matter of fact, with my NBA team for the most part... and haven't even watched what once was called baseball, now better labeled Manfredball, for literally years since they drained the game of strategy and restructured the game around "what allows media to get home earlier." It's recreation, it's not religion.
Right now, I'm intrigued, and I'm giving this a chance.
