Snap counts= fire frank reich asap!

[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by Chromeburn

I’m not on the smug train for him. I’ve heard Kevin and query call him that repeatedly this week. But they strike me as thin skinned. That query dude is a poster child of insecurity. I listened to that interview he keeps bringing up and I didn’t think Ballard was smug. He laid out his argument for what he was doing. And I don’t think he threw having a college degree in his face, I think query just internalized it. Kevin just wants to be right and acknowledged for pointing out the obvious.

I view Frank and Ballard as being very similar, way too similar in fact. My perception is both like to convey this nice guy, easy to engage persona to the outside world but behind closed doors are probably control freaks to the absolute enth degree, to the point that over time people just gravitate away from them.

Having worked with a lot of these same type of people I get the sense that both perceive themselves to be on a level of intelligence that others just can't appreciate. As such, they don't listen. They hear, they nod, but as soon as the conversation ends, all that diaglogue= gone, because they know best. In due time that sort of attitude leads to a general malaise that sets in where people stop even trying as they know it's not going to amount to anything. And that's EXACTLY where I think this team is with Frank, I don't think players even care at this point. He's got his plays, his boys, and he is going to run what he, as the genius that he is, believes will result in excellent results.

These type of folks never accept they are failing, instead believing that they are "this" close to turning the corner, and when they do, lookout, best shit you've ever seen is going to happen. Far too frequently that corner ends up being a big ass circle of futility. And to me, that's exactly what Frank's doing, just creating a circle of suck because he can't listen to others and looking at the results at several positions, Ballard seems to be doing exactly the same thing.