Black Monday firings largely brought about by disasters at QB
• To be sure, lousy quarterbacking gets coaches sent packing every year in the NFL. No news flash there. It's a cause-and-effect relationship that will never change. But has that brutal reality ever been on more vivid display than during this year's firing season in the NFL?
Take a quick scan of the six coaching openings in the league on this Black Monday, and almost all of them were largely brought about by a team's problems at quarterback. And not just your run-of-the-mill QB issues either. In several cases, it was an all-out, unmitigated disaster that unfolded at quarterback, helping grease the skids for the half-dozen recently deposed members of the headset crowd.
Read More:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20131230/greg-schiano-mike-shanahan-black-monday-snaps/
