Charlie Weis Fired As Head Coach of Notre Dame
Saying its expectations on the field have not been met, Notre Dame fired coach Charlie Weis on Monday after a string of disappointing seasons that was capped by an agonizing four-game losing streak.
A brash offensive coordinator with the NFL champion New England Patriots when he was hired five years ago, Weis excited the Irish faithful with back-to-back appearances in BCS bowl games in his first two seasons. Since then, one of the nation's most storied football programs has gone 16-21.
Weis has told people in South Bend that he's already heard from roughly six NFL teams about becoming their offensive coordinator next season, sources told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.
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I wasn't keen on the idea earlier
but after reading his book (No Excuses) I’d take him back in New England in a heartbeat.
Keep the faith!
"Roughly" six?
That’s “roughly,” six.
Well there’s your problem right there! Guy can’t even count to six. Or maybe five. Could be seven. Do you think eight is close enough to six to be in “roughly” distance? I mean, relative to 20, nine is “roughly” six. So, therefore, is two.
Which sounds about right.
I kid, Charlie. Want a job?
As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no "I" in team, but there is an "I" in pie. And there's an "I" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about. --Shaun of the Dead
by JohnHannahRules on Nov 30, 2009 4:30 PM EST reply actions
As long as he can count to 4 downs, he's ahead of Andy Reid.
If it’s within an order of magnitude, roughly six is 0.6 to 60. Rounding, that makes it somewhere between 1 and all 32 teams.
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by SlotMachinePlayer on Nov 30, 2009 4:34 PM EST up reply actions
And he knows that you only get 3 timeouts.
Can’t say the same about Reid’s lap dog Donovan.
Beer is good! And stuff!
To be fair, the Pats did that a few weeks ago
Tom wanted a timeout and found out afterwards they’d burned them all on the opposite side of the ball.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 30, 2009 6:29 PM EST up reply actions
To Tom's credit,
At least he didn’t deliberately call a timeout when they had none left like Donovan did in Oakland.
Beer is good! And stuff!
to all of their credit
it was a first down so they shouldnt have had to challenge anyway…
by MOSS81 on Nov 30, 2009 6:47 PM EST up reply actions
Are you talking about the Faulk catch? Because that should've been a first down.
Beer is good! And stuff!
yes im talkin about the catch
the catch that the reffs royally messed up onbu refused to fix and refuse to acknowleadge knowing that indy should be 10-1 right now. but its in the past moving on to the saints tonight
by MOSS81 on Nov 30, 2009 6:53 PM EST up reply actions
I thought he actually did that?
Wasn’t one of the penalties for delay of game a few weeks ago due to Brady calling a timeout and walking off the field, just to find he had none and he had to scramble back on?
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 30, 2009 7:37 PM EST up reply actions
I don't think there was a penalty.
Because I thought he got the play off in time.
Beer is good! And stuff!
One of them might be the Raiders
And they’re roughly a team.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 30, 2009 6:07 PM EST up reply actions
Ooh, you're meaner than I am
Their D is okay. I just don’t see their offence ever improving, unless there happens to be a draft in which no guys actually run sub-4.40 and Al Davis is forced to draft football players and not just sprinters.
Or Al Davis retires. That’d work.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 30, 2009 6:27 PM EST up reply actions
I would say that Al could die, but since he is undead already that won't work.
Stake through the heart? Silver bullets? Sunlight? Not really my area of expertise.
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by SlotMachinePlayer on Nov 30, 2009 6:33 PM EST up reply actions
Oh no, I meant an actual retirement...
because if he dies in office, he might leave instructions in his will about how the drafting must be done, come hell or high water.
It’s only if there’s a new GM/draft guru/owner/whatever he is that there’s any hope, and that’s only guaranteed if he actually steps aside.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 30, 2009 7:33 PM EST up reply actions
I don't know...
A Charlie Weis offence is a completely different beast to a Josh McDaniels/modern Pats offence. I wonder if a Weis offence would actually be a step backwards – Brady’s shown he can run a high-flying, all-out aerial offence pretty well (hah!) and Weis was all about power running and short screens and slants. I wonder if Weis would underutilise Randy Moss, which would be a criminal offence given Moss is playing out his career and deserves all the yards and TDs he can get.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 30, 2009 7:36 PM EST up reply actions
It's all about scheming to the personnel
Moss is being underutilized right now because of the lack of a legitimate 3rd WR.
Keep the faith!
We also don't have the personnel for a power running offense
Maroney plays too much like a finesse guy, Morris is too fragile, and Taylor doesn’t have enough tread left on his tires to pull it off.
But I do want to see what Tate can do next year when he’s healthy. If he’s the #3 guy, he’s as good as everyone thought he would be before he hurt his knee, and Edelman and Stanback round out the receiving corps — let’s leave Aiken on special teams unless we’re desperate — Brady could throw for 5,000 yards next year.
Of course, that also assumes that the O-line doesn’t have long stretches of tremendous suck.
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