Apparantly, I've been totally out of the loop! It turns out that these guys all know in detail everything that goes on on the front office, and I'd missed most of it. (They mentioned these facts as if they were old news).
While I had thought that Delhomme and then Wallace were injured, forcing MCoy to start, it turns out that in reality this was Mike Holmgren taking over the team and forcing Mangini to start McCoy. I guess the aforementioned injuries were faked, and both QB's are in on the conspiracy.
Furthermore, it turns out that Holmgren also ordered Daboll and Mangini to throw more passes.
Then, McCoy got hurt...well maybe that was fake too, since as of that time, Holmgren "took his hands off the wheel", and under Mangini (who of course had learned nothing), the team resumed it's course toward the nearest ditch.
I had no idea! Man, these guys must have the front office bugged, or something, to find out all this stuff and talk about these empirical facts!
I guess this was Mangini's last chance to learn how to coach from Mike Holmgren, and now Mike is washing his hands of it, and allowing Mangini to lose the rest of the games so that he can fire him (as he planned all along anyway).
Yeah! You see, Mangini never liked McCoy, and was dying to put Jake back in. That's why he didn't compliment him overmuch--a dead giveaway! (I personally miss little details like this. I hope, in time, to refine my analytical skills to this level).
I missed the part about Colt's injury, but I guess that either Mangini had an offensive lineman step on him, or maybe has ordered McCoy to feign the injury, or maybe he just got lucky. At any rate, a now much happier Mangini gets to use good old Jake and revert to a primitive and unimaginitive offense...
Well, I've just got to listen to these guys some more for the real scoop. I'd been listening to Gil Brandt, Bernie Kosar, Rich Gannon, Jim Miller, Pat Kirwin, Sam Rutigliano, Marty Schottenheimer, et al, but, as I learned last week, all these guys are "koolaid-drinkers" in re Mangini.The conspiracy is obviously pretty wide-spread, what with all these guys that I'd thought were credible in on it!
I guess I stand corrected.
