Some head coaches had a great week this Sunday, but a few are mixing very stiff drinks after what their teams did in Week 7.
Not every week is going to be a good one for a head coach. As tired a cliché it may be, you win some and lose some holds truer than we’d like to admit. It only becomes a problem when the losing is either brutal, consistent — or both.
This weekend saw a handful of head coaches have very bad weeks. There will be extra practices and long film sessions to try and figure out what happened, but first, a stiff drink will be mixed to numb the pain.
If you’re a fan of these teams, feel free to join your coach in drowning away the sorrows of another week gone by.
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Three of the four NFC South coaches lost brutal games this weekend in very different ways.
Dirk Koetter and the Buccaneers came from behind in Buffalo, only to blow a 27-20 lead in a game they should have won. Something has to give at some point for a team that should not be 2-4 but just can’t find a way to win games.
Ron Rivera’s team went on the road to Chicago and failed to score more than a field goal. Chalk it up to the Bears defense being better than advertised, but if the Panthers are a Super Bowl contender, losing a game to the Bears isn’t going to get it done.
Then there’s Dan Quinn, who suffered perhaps the most brutal loss of all. A 23-7 shellacking in New England isn’t what you’re looking for when trying to bounce back from two straight losses. Now Atlanta is in a three-game funk and the offense is stalling in the worst of ways.
Make it three straight losses for the Bucs too, and two straight for Carolina. In a division that was supposed to be competitive, the race in the NFC South is only close because everyone outside of New Orleans is playing so bad.