Sit the starters?

Originally posted by PopeyeJonesing:
It's immaterial if it's a "good idea or not" for two reasons:

1) Nobody does it unless they've clinched a playoff spot (as Silky just said).

2) Even if it was done occasionally, a coach who needs to try to keep his job ABSOLUTELY wouldn't do this. He'd be an idiot to do this.

Shanahan is doing exactly that! And I'd say he's a far better coach than Singletary, or you or I. It's BS to think you can't sit your starters when they're not getting it done anyway and there are others you need to look at. This is not to say they sit the entire game. In fact maybe give the subs a quarter or two. Makes a helluva lot more sense than playing your 1st stringers in meaningless games for some phantom "pride" concept that's been lost anyway by the abysmal play thus far. Nice in theory, but let's be realistic, we need a look at some guys before next season to determine if they'll even be worth keeping and to plan our draft startegy and free agent pickups. With Sing, these guys are still a mystery.

Originally posted by 4evrfan:

Originally posted by PopeyeJonesing:
It's immaterial if it's a "good idea or not" for two reasons:

1) Nobody does it unless they've clinched a playoff spot (as Silky just said).

2) Even if it was done occasionally, a coach who needs to try to keep his job ABSOLUTELY wouldn't do this. He'd be an idiot to do this.

Shanahan is doing exactly that! And I'd say he's a far better coach than Singletary, or you or I. It's BS to think you can't sit your starters when they're not getting it done anyway and there are others you need to look at. This is not to say they sit the entire game. In fact maybe give the subs a quarter or two. Makes a helluva lot more sense than playing your 1st stringers in meaningless games for some phantom "pride" concept that's been lost anyway by the abysmal play thus far. Nice in theory, but let's be realistic, we need a look at some guys before next season to determine if they'll even be worth keeping and to plan our draft startegy and free agent pickups. With Sing, these guys are still a mystery.

Shanahan just started, and didnt make playoff promises. Anyone who saw the skins last year, knew they would suck this year. he gets a pass for this year, even with his handling of haynesworth and mcnabb.

We don't really have any decent players on our bench to sit the starters for anyways. The only player id want to see is that thaddeus gibson dude, and maybe let mays play FS and bench goldson.