re: Anyone else hearing rumors of Coley leaving?

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The woefully depleted WR Corp made Coley look worse than he actually was.

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Really tired of seeing this used as an umbrella excuse for Coley.

If you really think Kirby replaced and let walk one of his close friends and one of the best recruiters in the country just because some of our receivers had bad hands and were seemingly poor route runners, then you need to get out more and stop listening to whomever sold you that short-sighted myopic excuse.

Kirby didn’t turn Coley into some patsy, and it’s insulting to indirectly infer that he did. The truth is there’s a long list of deficiencies that Coley has with regards to his playbook, route combinations, play design, ability to read and decipher defenses on the go, and general play calling decision making. And some of those things exacerbated the weaknesses in our receiver corps, our OL, and in Fromm.

You want your OC capable of playing to players strengths and minimizing weaknesses, not the other way around. And being obnoxiously predictable, having pedestrian and non-intuitive plays and route combinations, and telegraphing tendencies because of absurdly repetitive calls with near identical personnel groupings, is precisely how you make life significantly harder for our receivers, OL, and QB, and exacerbate their weaknesses rather than their strengths.

Kirby clearly saw this. Many professional pundits saw this. Many fans saw this. You should realize you’re in the minority and wonder how you got there rather than insulting Kirby and others and telling them to show some class. Just sayin.