Acutely passive Game Management 1.Sporadic timeout usage 2. Lackluster replay challenges 3. Questionable half time adjustments 4. Oblivious situational tactics(esp. in crunch time) 5. Zero emotion Cumbersome PR 1. No accountability 2. No sense of urgency 3. Downplays everything 4. Showed no fight when the locker room quit on the team As others have stated there seems to be alittle "aw shucks" at play. Maybe he is just happy having the job..but along w. it, it seems like he's waiting for the roster to be better to actually coach the team to win. He's almost too focused on the personnel player development side. While I think that is his strength as a coach there are other departments in place to handle those duties.It's one thing if he has autonomy & the ownership has put specific guidelines in place to improvement the overall talent structure;But we all know better than that w. Woody. Up until this past offseason the only mandate has been to win on the field & win the back pages.
Happy to have the job is right. His stupid grin reminds of a kid just happy that his big brother let him play with his football by himself for an hour.
The only reason I can see Todd Bowles being unsuccessful as an NFL coach is because he's just not cut out for it. Out of all the recent coaches we have had, Bowles has been as prepared for the big job as anybody. Think about it. He's been in college coaching ranks, the NFL coaching ranks and player personnel ranks. He was even an interim head coach before he got the job. One of the things I think that Bowles may not have is a "system" that works. Successful coaches like Belicheck, Carroll, Andy Reed, Mike Tomlin, have a system of things they do from the way they relate to the players in the locker room to position requirements of every person on the roster. Entering his third season, Bowles should have to question what he's learned only practically apply it to any given situation. It's hard to see us being outplayed by lesser talent this year, but if Bowles is constantly making tactical errors or getting plain out coached.... then it's time to go.
Does anybody have a concrete example of something that Bowles didn't hold a player accountable for when he should have? Maybe I'm opening the flood gates, but last I heard there really weren't many disciplinary problems on the team. A couple missed meetings over 2 years and fans are going berserk over it like it happens all the time and nothing gets done. Sheldon is the biggest problem on the team IMO. He seems to be part of every issue lol.
The lack of effort from the Indy game onward.Anyone w. 2 eyes could see the team wasn't playing w. any urgency & had clearly checked out. Obviously there were alot of factors in play but that doesn't evade the ugly truth that many guys quit.Then his press conferences come & he's outright praising the effort saying guys were playing to the whistle. I understand he wants to keep things in house but c'mon this is NY & its his name on the product. There was a way to show some fortitude & accountability w.o calling anyone out. The fans deserved it for having to endure it, the team deserved it for the tort & HE deserved it for himself if he believed the team's play was reflection of him:Which he should as it is his job.
Announcing this offseason (just a few months ago) that being late for team meeting is no big deal ("I don't have a big problem with that... Not everybody has an alarm clock...") seems to me to be a "concrete example" of lack of accountability. Not wise to give players a free pass in advance.
All of this moves / releasing of Vets gives Bowels a built in excuse and sadly might keep him around past 2017 and we might have to endure him into 2018------I think I am going to be ill, the thought of this inept coach sickens me !
