The NFL regular season ended yesterday, and today the carnage begins. Already fired:
Mike Martz from the Rams.
Dom Capers from the Texans.
Jim Haslett from the Saints.
Mike Sherman from the Packers.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Billick get canned by the Ravens, as well as the entire Lions organization. Any others I am missing?
danelectro
sherman was with the packers. tice with the vikings; he’s been fired as well.
Brad R.
I honestly don’t think Tice deserved to get fired. They won 7 of their last 9 games even though they didn’t have Cullpepper.
Otto Man
I know the Vikings hate the Packers, but they had no right to fire Sherman.
ppGaz
Green deserves to be fired from Arizona, but I am not sure that will happen. He has mismanaged the quarterback situation here as badly as it can be done. With a little luck, we could have taken part in the Bush Bowl, our team was that bad this year.
Anyway, next year the Cards play in a new posh multi-zillion dollar air conditioned palace of a stadium. It would be nice if they fielded a competitive team to go with it.
Mr Furious
the entire Lions organization
Millen should be first on the block. Shoulda been before Mariucci. He’s been here, he’s had plenty of time, and this is HIS team, not Mariucci’s.
I’m not a Lions fan, I just live here, and I cannot say I’ve followed things too closely, but it seems like a series of coaches have been Millen’s scapegoats over the last several years, and somehow Bill Ford keeps letting him get away with it.
Come to think of it, maybe Bill ford needs to get fired. From the Lions AND Ford.
If Tice really won 7 of 9 without Culpepper and after the whole sex boat scandal, he deserved a promotion.
Far North
John – You’re missing Turner in Oakland. What a sad team the Raiders were this year.
Mr Furious
Anyway, next year the Cards play in a new posh multi-zillion dollar air conditioned palace of a stadium. It would be nice if they fielded a competitive team to go with it.
It’s been my experience (here with Detroit) and elsewhere that new stadiums lead to nothing but complacency.
Gold Star for Robot Boy
Fire Green? Nah, start with the Bidwills.
fwiffo
@Mr. Furious: You took the words right out of my mouth. Noone is a bigger impediment to the Lions than Bill Ford.
I recall an interview with him just after the last game of Mariucci’s first or second year with the team. They had won something like four games all year. The reporter asked if he was upset with the way things had gone – his response was “I couldn’t be happier, couldn’t possibly be happier”. Couldn’t be happier? Wouldn’t a .500 season make you a little happier than four wins? Wouldn’t you be happier yet with a playoff berth? A Superbowl? Could success even possibly make you happier than failure?
I can’t say I miss the Silverdome though. That place was a hole. I remember being at a game there, the Lions were losing like 64-8 or something (I believe they scored a freak safety near the end), and at some point, hundreds and hundreds of paper airplanes started raining down onto the field.
What can you say about a place whose crowning sporting moment was Wrestlemania III?
The Other Steve
That’s not why he got fired. (Now I’m from Minneapolis, so this is local)
Rather it’s because he has brought disgrace upon the team and the city.
Primarily, there is the whole Boat Scandal, where four Vikings players got charged after a charter boat had to return to shore because the players where having sex with the wait staff.
Then there was the whole thing last year. Scalping is illegal in Minnesota… it’s definately illegal for NFL coaches.
Frankly, I suspect it has to more to do with the fact that the Vikings have a new owner this year, and the new owner, Zygie Wilf, doesn’t get along with Tice.
Then again, it may be the Bush curse.
The Other Steve
Green!? Denny Green!?
Oh come on. He was coach of the Vikings before Tice. Sure, maybe he mismanaged everything.
But at least he provides ENTERTAINMENT value with his press conferences. :-)
ats
At least Billick won’t need a golden parachute. An ego his size makes for a soft landing, and Ray-Ray can do a Bad Leroy Brown number on the critics.
chef
Has the NAACP clown who dissed Mc Nabb for staying in the pocket SEEN what has become of Mike Vick this year?
Gold Star for Robot Boy
Donovan McNabb, in his career, has managed to run afoul of Eagles fans, Rush Limbaugh and the NAACP.
Now that’s a uniter, not a divider!
Fred
The Other Steve is right. Speaking as another (other) Minnesotan, I’m assuming the decision to fire Tice had little to do with the Vikings’ on-the-field performance, and lots to do with the air of lawlessness around them. Tice showed in the offseason and at the beginning of this season that he could not run a disciplined team. Maybe some of the team’s problems early in the season are related to that, but it took the bye-week sex boat scandal and Culpepper’s injury to kick Tice’s ass into laying down the law. Their record at the end of the season (one better than last year, even) is to his credit, and Brad Johnson’s, and that of an improved defense, but it shouldn’t have gotten that bad in the first place.
Brad R.
Fred- fair enough. I’m not from Minnesota, so I don’t know all the gossip (though the sex scandal was pretty damn amazing).
Mac Buckets
(Houston) AP — Dom Capers has been fired by the Houston Texans, to be replaced by either Gary Kubiak or a potted ficus tree with a little headset tacked into the bark. If the latter, it will take the Texans until the fifth game next season to tell the difference.
Angry Engineer
What Mr. Furious said. Mariucci’s firing was a terrible decision, and everyone in Michigan knows that it except for Millen (and apparently, his boss).
As has been fashionable to say in Michigan lately – “You know, if Bill Ford ran his car company as badly as he’s run his football team, it’d be in real big trouble by now. Oh, wait…”
KoC
Bills owner Ralph Wilson has promised that there will be changes made over the off-season.
I’m expecting GM Tom Donahue to be fired, but Mularkey will be given at least another year (which is fine, seeing as he’s had only two, with one being decent and one being bad).
Dodd
The Ravens organization said a couple of weeks ago that Billick was being retained. Norv Turner is still up in the air, but I expect him to be fired.
In related news, Favre will probably retire since he tied himself to Sherman.
Zach
Tice deserved to be fired. Tice didn’t deserve to be hired. I think he may in time be a good head coach, but under him the Vikings frequently looked lost. The off the field stuff didn’t help, but Tice didn’t exactly make the choice too difficult. Sure they went 7-2 after a bad start, but the first of those 2 came when they controlled their playoff destiny and the second came when they needed a win to stay in contention. Which pretty much sums up Tice’s tenure.
Al Maviva
I understand that The Daniel fired Coach Joe Gibbs Sunday night after the Redskins last regular season game, but that Gibbs stuck around anyhow until Snyder realized his mistake. According to the diminutive, power-mad Snyder, “Hey, what can I say. It was just a reflex. I couldn’t help myself.” Snyder went on to say that Gibbs had his “full faith and confidence, regardless of whether he wins next week’s playoff game against the Bucs.”
Gibbs was said to be contacting team attorneys and having a last will and testament drawn up, as well as avoiding bus routes.
joe
The story is Buffalo is that Malarky is gone.
Joe