Officer Chuck Pagano Gets a Lead
I guess we’ll stick with the unofficial theme of the week: bad coaches! Today, Chuck Pagano.
Want to know something absurd? The Indianapolis Colts would be 9-2 right now if games ended at halftime. They are 3-8. I went back and looked at every box score so far, treating the Colts winning at halftime as a victory. I knew it would change the record, but I didn’t even realize how much. The Colts have only not led at halftime 3 times this whole season. Two were blowout losses to the Rams and Jags (Both good teams), and one was a tie with the Browns, which they eventually won. One of the hallmarks of a good coach has always been halftime adjustments. Can you maintain a lead? Chuck Pagano treats leads like how normal people treat spiders when they see one crawling on them. I’m partially convinced that the 3 games they have won are like open wounds to Chuck. Those were games he could have given up!
Obviously the Colts have a lot of problems outside Chuck but it’s pretty clear Pagano has to go. Even Pagano doesn’t seem interested anymore, instead giving weird press conferences. He’s been a dead man walking all season and he can’t use the Andrew Luck injury excuse anymore, he already used that card before. They should have let him go when they let Grigson walk. I can’t remember the last time a team fired a GM but kept the head coach and things worked out. I’m sure it’s happened, and feel free to name them in the comments, but every example I can think of didn’t work and usually just felt like the coach was a dead man the whole time. Almost like the new GMs keep these coaches on as a scapegoat for when the first season rebuild looks bad.
Chucky got a pass for a while because of the cancer thing and he still deserves credit as a person for getting through that. But he’s clearly not head coach material, at least not in Indy. His biggest legacy at this point is probably helping waste Andrew Luck’s career. Did he have anything to do with starting Deflategate? That might be a notch on the ol’ resume too. It eventually got Brady suspended and irreparably damaged that season for the Patri…oh wait. Nevermind. Remember when one of the best years of his tenure was actually the one where Bruce Arians was the coach? Man, what a legacy.
Chuck at least will probably get another coordinator job after he gets fired, unlike Ben McAdoo, who will work at Taco bell, and will bench the Doritos Locos Tacos.
Also, if you want to hear me be mad at the Giants some more, PODCAST
as a 49ers fan ive always wondered why the 49ers games would end at halftime
then i realize that i already turned off the tv
I’d *never* turn off the TV because of how bad the Browns are.
With Sunday Ticket, I can just change the channel to something better….
a+ comment would lol again, well played sir
I think the last successful dead man walking head coach/new GM combo was Kevin Colbert in Pittsburgh with Bill Cowher. People forget Cowher was on the hot seat after 1999’s 6-10 season with a loss to expansion Cleveland.
Yep, that might be the best counter example. Tom Donahoe was hired as GM at the same time as Cowher in 1992, and after two straight losing seasons in 98-99 they pretty much hated each other and gave Rooney a “him or me” situation. Probably safe to say picking the coach over the GM was the right choice that time.
Jim Irsay probably forgot chuck was still the coach and just thought he looked a lot like chuck pagano.
“Man, this guy’s almost as bad as the old coach I fired last year! Wait. . .I forgot to fire him? That explain’s a lot!!
Karma for the whiniest fanbase in sports. A self-righteous fanbase deserves a drug addled team owner.
Your an eagles fan aren’t you, how is the Colts fan base bad? I await your fake reasonings.
He comes out of his cave to cry about the Colts anytime there’s a colts comic. I’d ignore him, being as obsessed as he is with a 3-8 team can’t be good for his health and we should probably be trying to support him and get him to go to therapy to show on the doll where Peyton Manning touched him. We should be trying to help him overcome his mental disorder, not berate him for it
Colts fans are losers. They insist that Johnny Unitas is part of their history. And they patronize a team owned by a druggie.
Umm… okay, I give up. Coulda sworn Unitas was a Colt (?)
Yup he was was
He was when they were in Baltimore.
I always thought Pagano was a good coach for the Colts…
WHY COLTS, WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, STOP CHOKING ON 20 POINTS A GAME!
Now you know how we felt in 2014 and 2015.
Yeah Chuck is shit and Luck is probably done. At least the Pacers are mediocre instead of bottom of the barrel as was expected, the rebuild is going to take quite some time for he Colts.
Also lmao at this butthurt Buster guy, I never see him comment unless it’s crying about sand in his vagina on Colts posts. Talk about whiny fans…
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I think you’re my favorite Colts fan.
I give up where’s Sexy Rexy
I figured he’d be on the RX bottles somewhere…
Is he still doing that?
If he is I got a lot of catching up to do
Jim Irsay with the crack pipe makes this comic
That box of “cop stuff”!
For the podcast: Ben McAdoo is the type of person to charge their phone at 98%
The Panthers fired their GM, Marty Hurney, in 2013 after the team started 1-3 but kept the head coach, Ron Rivera. The Panthers went on to finish the season 12-4, winning the NFCS and making the playoffs for the first time since 2008. The Panthers hired Dave Gettleman who was GM during the team’s 15-1 Super Bowl appearance in 2015. The Panthers then fired Gettleman during preseason of 2017 and re-hired Marty Hurney to take his place.
Fun fact: Hurney gave Jake Delhomme $20m of guaranteed money on a four year contract extension after Jake threw 5 INTs and lost a fumble at home in the NFC Divisional round against the Cardinals. Jake was 34 years old and had a surgically repaired arm. The Panthers were still paying Jake in 2010 when Delhomme led the Cleveland Browns to victory in Charlotte against the Jimmy Clausen quarterbacked Panthers.
Fun fact #2: Cam Newton wore number 2 in college but changed to number 1 when Jimmy Clausen refused to relinquish the number 2 after Cam was drafted first overall by the Panthers in 2011.
wow, I had not seen that press conference… that was… really something
Hall & Oates – Out of Touch
The perfect motif for the Giants management right now.
Ben McAdoo is the kind of person who subscribes to Amos Yee’s channel on YouTube.
Ben McAdoo is the kind of person who pays artists and musicians in exposure
Ben McAdoo is the kind of person who McAdoos in the restroom.
Ben McAdoo is the kind of person who drives the speed limit in the passing lane.
Ben McAdoo likes pineapple pizza
Make an AFC West comic showing all the AFCW QBs like you did with the NFC East in 2015, NFC South in 2014 and NFC North in 2013
Box of “cop stuff” should have been labeled “weird tweets”