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It's just not working.
By "it," I mean the Great Steve Spurrier Experiment. It was a swell idea — one of Dan Snyder's best — to hire Spurrier, to find out if his Fun 'n' Gun follies would transfer from college ball to the pros, but the results so far have been less than encouraging. Nearly halfway through his second season with the Redskins, the Ball Coach has a 10-13 record, and his team is heading south, not north. Three straight losses have the club in a crisis mode going into a High Noon game at Dallas two weeks hence.
Worse, Spurrier doesn't seem able to fix what's broken. That's what football coaches spend much of their time doing — plugging leaks in the offensive line, papering over holes in the secondary, repairing damaged psyches. Spurrier, poor fellow, appears utterly confounded by his team's travails ... and unequipped to deal with them.
He's fallen back on the "we have to do a better job coaching" line so many times that you wonder if he and his staff are capable of doing a better job coaching. You wonder if this is as good as they can "coach 'em up."
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By "it," I mean the Great Steve Spurrier Experiment. It was a swell idea — one of Dan Snyder's best — to hire Spurrier, to find out if his Fun 'n' Gun follies would transfer from college ball to the pros, but the results so far have been less than encouraging. Nearly halfway through his second season with the Redskins, the Ball Coach has a 10-13 record, and his team is heading south, not north. Three straight losses have the club in a crisis mode going into a High Noon game at Dallas two weeks hence.
Worse, Spurrier doesn't seem able to fix what's broken. That's what football coaches spend much of their time doing — plugging leaks in the offensive line, papering over holes in the secondary, repairing damaged psyches. Spurrier, poor fellow, appears utterly confounded by his team's travails ... and unequipped to deal with them.
He's fallen back on the "we have to do a better job coaching" line so many times that you wonder if he and his staff are capable of doing a better job coaching. You wonder if this is as good as they can "coach 'em up."
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