re: So O threw another group of players under the bus

Agreed. If I was a kicker I might Charlie Brown it for the rest of the season, except that it might get my holder killed.

Yaw Yaw footbaw. That's what he's going to say. You just don't say shite like that. Even though our kickers are garbage this year, you don't just completely kick them while they're down if you're the coach. Especially not to the press or on live broadcast ffs. Pull them into your ogre den and express it to them personally, and they may take it as constructive criticism. Now, they're like holy shite we really suck that bad that our coach blasts us on the air to our own fans and media. What a complete dumbass. That's pretty much common knowledge I thought, but, simple Ed doesn't have common knowledge.

The problem is that O said this stuff to the media.

Unlike Saban and Belicheck, O uses the media to try and sell his narrative to the cajun idiots over there. Saban couldn't give a frick about what the media thinks, or the fans even. He lets his results speak for themselves.

But back to the topic, this is to be said in the locker room. Not the media. O's a man. He's over 40. He should know this.

I don't think he is a good coach and I don't think he has it in him. But I'm not going to ridicule him over this.

How many teams go for it on 4th down around their own 35 line? That's the coach saying "I don't have faith in you" to their kicker. It's literally the same thing.

Dude. Ed orgeron said word for word..."we just don't have a field goal kicker". Lol, link me a single quote or audio/video of les miles saying anything so directly condescending about one of his players. You won't find one.

You do realize that coaches don't even talk like that about other teams players right?...much less their own. Holy shite.

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How many teams go for it on 4th down around their own 35 line? That's the coach saying "I don't have faith in you" to their kicker. It's literally the same thing.

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It is one thing not to have a reliable kicker. It is quite another to have one who can dependably hit 52 yard field goals. I think kickers understand when coaches don’t want to risk that.

Aren't both kickers combined 3-7 this year? That's not exactly dependable

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Find me another head coach that says they don’t have a kicker and need to recruit one for the next year 5 games into the season

Find me another recruit kicker that wants to play for a coach that says something like that

I’ll be waiting...

People don’t realize that a statement like that speaks massive volumes

No major head coach would completely abandon faith in his kickers going into the hardest stretch of their schedule. It’s pretty fricking simple, even if you are thinking it, you don’t say it to the media.

He’s not cut to be a head coach, he’s a an idiot in over his head that got offered a ton of money.