Post by TNmike on Apr 14, 2007 12:05:54 GMT -5
I'm posting this for intelligent discussing. Feel free to agree and dis-agree but bashing is not needed.
Looking at the 1-8 standing of the Freeze in todays paper had me thinking, what the hell happened with this team that went to the championship game the first year, playoffs in 2nd, but now not even in the playoff race? What happened to the team that had best front office awards last season?
It seems problems started when Espo. suddenly left the team after the first season and Crafts took over. Say what you want about Espo. but he had this team going right out of the tunnel. Then Craft comes in and things start going down hill. He gets fired and Arnold takes over. This leads to the current state of the Freeze.
Arnold is still the current head coach but his record is very bad and it seems the team is never ready to play until late in the 2nd when the other team has already have a lead and once again early in the 3rd quarter the team comes out flat again. The great Freeze defense has been having trouble covering receivers and the offense just can't get it done when needed (look at all the close games that the team was one score away from winning).
The offense always seems to lack a leader. I had my issues with Dinkins but no one has steeped up has the leader of the offense. This could explain the offense lack of production.
Dave's tendency of not wanting to spend money is showing. I talked with someone who's done work for the team (I won't name who or what company so don't ask) and he mention Dave hate spending money on the team. He was willing to accept free tickets the first two seasons but has soon has he requested money from Dave for work, Dave decided not to use his company, at first. The company did do one thing for the Freeze that they were going to accept free tickets for a game but Dave has yet to give them any. This does not make him happy and I doubt he'll do work for Dave anymore. He won't go to Freeze games anymore because of him. We all know about the traveling issues for the Freeze for long games.
And the lack of updating the website is not good. Why do through doing all those changes then not keep it up to date?
It looks like some changes need to happed to the coaching staff and maybe ownership for us to see the Freeze we know and love from the first year. Either firings/selling or changes on how things are done.
Looking at the 1-8 standing of the Freeze in todays paper had me thinking, what the hell happened with this team that went to the championship game the first year, playoffs in 2nd, but now not even in the playoff race? What happened to the team that had best front office awards last season?
It seems problems started when Espo. suddenly left the team after the first season and Crafts took over. Say what you want about Espo. but he had this team going right out of the tunnel. Then Craft comes in and things start going down hill. He gets fired and Arnold takes over. This leads to the current state of the Freeze.
Arnold is still the current head coach but his record is very bad and it seems the team is never ready to play until late in the 2nd when the other team has already have a lead and once again early in the 3rd quarter the team comes out flat again. The great Freeze defense has been having trouble covering receivers and the offense just can't get it done when needed (look at all the close games that the team was one score away from winning).
The offense always seems to lack a leader. I had my issues with Dinkins but no one has steeped up has the leader of the offense. This could explain the offense lack of production.
Dave's tendency of not wanting to spend money is showing. I talked with someone who's done work for the team (I won't name who or what company so don't ask) and he mention Dave hate spending money on the team. He was willing to accept free tickets the first two seasons but has soon has he requested money from Dave for work, Dave decided not to use his company, at first. The company did do one thing for the Freeze that they were going to accept free tickets for a game but Dave has yet to give them any. This does not make him happy and I doubt he'll do work for Dave anymore. He won't go to Freeze games anymore because of him. We all know about the traveling issues for the Freeze for long games.
And the lack of updating the website is not good. Why do through doing all those changes then not keep it up to date?
It looks like some changes need to happed to the coaching staff and maybe ownership for us to see the Freeze we know and love from the first year. Either firings/selling or changes on how things are done.