So whose fault is it that Slocum is retained after multiple years of horrible (worst in the league type) special teams performance?
"Stevetarded" wrote:
Last year, Slocum's first year, was terrible. This year has hardly, if at all, been better.
However, you have to realize the amount of injuries Slocum has had to overcome as coach. Outside of the long snapper, kicker, and punter the only two ST players he's consistently had at his disposal are Jarret Bush and Tom Crabtree.
That is an insane amount of turnover for any coach to deal with. Add to it that you have players like Quinn Johnson deciding to become an idiot by completely lowering his head while blindly trying to make a tackle, thereby missing the player altogether AND taking out a couple of his teammates from making a play on the O-linemen who ran the kick back... and well you can only do so much when you find yourself in such a situation.
I'm willing to give Slocum one more year to judge his true value... you can be mad at him and say he is a shit coach, but frankly the amount of turnover he has had to deal with on his units should not be ignored all together.
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