It is one thing to debate the wisdom of your head coach being a "new school" or "old school" kind of guy. There are a lot of guys who are good coaches but still "old school" in terms of things like clock management, 4th down decisions, etc.. It can be frustrating at times, but if he is otherwise good, you can live with it because you don't want to lose all those other things he brings.
The core issue with Hue isn't that he's old school. It's that he's
incompetent old school. He has made multiple game-critical decisions that are indefensible even if you're an "old school" coach.
I don't understand the logic of fans being expected to give Hue "a chance". He's
had chances.
Multiple chances over three seasons to get correct basic decisions that have absolutely nothing to do with a lack of talent. Even when all the play calling responsibilities were taken away from him, he managed to do it
again. How many games should a head coach get to blow with stupid decisions before he gets fired?
This isn't the NBA, where you have decisions that are made under much tighter time pressure, and we're talking about an 82 game season and best of 7 playoff series. In the NBA, a coach can make a game blowing decision in the regular season, and if they're truly a good team, it won't matter because they'll make the playoffs anyway. And one blown playoff game means you still have more games in which to recover.
This is the NFL. You get 16 games, and some damn good teams can miss the playoffs based on the results of
one game. And the playoffs are one and done. You don't get mulligans in the NFL, and if you did, Hue has used up his allotment of them.
Hue Jackson is the damned George McClellan of the NFL. General McClellan built pretty armies for Abe Lincoln, trained them well, and his troops loved him. But when it came to actually fighting, he was a shitty general who repeatedly made stupid mistakes. And not unlike Hue, he tried to undermine everyone around him - including Lincoln -- to take the blame for his own mistakes. Lincoln actually hired him
twice to lead the Army of the Potomac because he thought he didn't have better choices available. Eventually,
finally, he was fired for good.
Screw Hue. Keeping him around after he's screwed up this much would have been like keeping McClellan around, and not firing him until
after he loses the Battle of Gettysburg to Robert E. Lee.
@King Stannis