For me it was the Xavier Gipson fumble against the Steelers. The cloud that overtook this team after that loss never went away.
Being honest, when they hired Aaron Glenn. I absolutely hated that hire for the exact reasons where dealing with today. Edit: Actually it was the day they hired Tannenbaum and crew to find us a coach. That’s when I knew this would be a disaster
I hated hiring our 6th or 7th, whatever it is, rookie DC as soon as it was announced, and especially more so as I didn’t think the defenses at Detroit were all that. Not like we were hiring the DC of a top three defense. So I hated it from the go. I then also wasn’t too optimistic about the Fields signing…I understood the logic of moving on from a guy like Rodgers as I didn’t think a 40 year old opinionated QB was a good match for a rookie HC, but I didn’t like Fields as the choice. Still, I was willing to give AG a chance, and in the Pitt game, we actually played well enough to win. But when we went 0-3 to start, I knew the season was over in September. What a fucking waste of a fucking year. And we’re about to do it again next year…disgusting
I was a little more optimistic than most it would appear but it was against Dallas in Week 5 for me. Coming off of not being super competitive against Miami but making it looker closer than it was to only follow that up with a total non-effort against a not great Dallas team was all I needed to see. I was a full blown tank commander from that point on.
I've been following this franchise for so long, every season is over until they prove otherwise. But as soon as they threw money at Justin Fields, I knew it was going to be so painful.
This. But as for when I realized during the season - There was a game early on where we inexplicably went for it on 4th and 8 from our own territory shortly after kicking a long FG on 4th and 1 from our opponent's territory. If you know anything about football, you know this is an indefensible sequence of events. It showed that Glenn wasn't operating with any kind of systematic approach to the game and confirmed that he's a coach with an antiquated philosophy like most of us feared he was the day we hired him.
The moment they hired Glenn. I was critical at the start, through the whole season and am still so. I think the biggest mistake this team is going to make in the last 5 years is retaining Glenn. Next year is already over.
Sometime in September. They just looked terrible and I knew we were screwed. Sent from my SM-S938U1 using Tapatalk
It's funny that 3/4 people who are running to every thread that has a post not agreeing with firing Glenn have admitted they considered the season lost the moment he was signed.
The minute he danced on the sidelines in TB with over a minute to play. Right there I knew they were going to lose and that was the end… Little did I know it would turn into a GIF….lol
When they gave Sherwood the extension, I knew they had no clue what type of player he was and they thought they had.
It's funny that you always chalk this up to some phantom hatred of Glenn rather than people just not thinking he'd be a good coach for football reasons.
Yeah, you can not like a hire everyone's entitled to that. But to consider the season over at the signing given the circumstances of the org, yeah there's something else going on there. Sorry if I don't think anyone here is able to definitively write a rookie HC off before their introduction.
