Hey this isn't a slump, rebuilding year or just an off-year here. It's clear as day. This is an attitude within the players and coaches. This is a mentality issue that has infected the team. Discipline, focus, mental prep, etc. is not a down year. You can claim this is just one bad year all you want. You look at the penalties, fumbles, dropped passes, lack of effort, lack of focus, running off at the mouth in front of cameras, etc. You CANNOT attribute this to those cyclical down years that periodically kick in for some coaches. We can't succeed in any aspect of the game any more. The Defense held in there as long as possible but now it seems they are losing the will as well.
So keep defending Fulmer and this as being one little down year. It's obvious that this is far deeper than that. Until the higher ups acknowledge this, the attitude will spread and we'll see repeated down years, even more discipline problems, etc. Fulmer's had it made. He knows he's safe and then backs down on doing the things he used to to not only protect his job but to make the team a high precision football team. He chokes off a few .800 years, people are content, and the team's psychology continues to decline. if he were as good a coach as he claims he wouldn't be content with 8-9-10 win seasons. He'd be pushing them to be at least one more win better the next season. Instead he claps and smirks at pathetic acts.
