Fox Needs To Be Fired after this season. Plain and Simple

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[err456]

I like Fox quite a bit. However, his 'niche' as far as his standing among other coaches past and present is in the Marty Shottenheimer/Jim Mora category. Those two won their share of regular season games, but they never seemed to get their teams over the playoff hump (actually, that does set Fox apart from them, his playoff success).

But Fox has had a long tenure by typical NFL standards, and the team is underperforming, and agin gin key positions at that. While the defense is playing with more intensity and fire, the offense is just too inconsistent (except in their predictability, they remain TOO consistent there), and the special teams are still mediocre. The team still is stuck in "Oh crap" mode, that is, they appear to do alright until they face any adversity, like a turnover, and they seem to take on the "here we go again" mindset. That's on Fox!

Though there was some success with running on third and long against the Saints, that is an approach that will get shut down eventually, even by the worse defensive teams. The Saints did that in the second half. The reason is obvious, they didn't fear (or was it respect?) Jake, and Fox evidently doesn't have any confidence in his passing ability. What makes that doubly bad is that Fox was maintaining that Jake gives us the best chance to win. We're 3-5 with Jake. I think the team deserves a chance to rally around Moore for the second half. Let's see what he can do. He can't do any worse than now.

This posts makes sense.

[err456]

I have always liked Fox but he become more and more play it safe every year. Its to a point now that nothing is tried because the fear of failure. Im sorry but at this point Fox is the Al Davis of Coaching. Yea he might have been a top 10 coach at some point but it is not this year. He barely is holding this team together and that was one of the things he did best in the past. His contract is up at years end and he will be gone. No need to even fire him just let him walk away like his staff did last year.

Agreed!