Maas reminds me of the teenager who wracked up the family car. He shrugs it off as miscalculation when clearly he was negligent. There were warning signs all year about the maturity issue so I can't say I'm surprised.
Predictably, the Calgary media are busting a gut laughing over this and it will be a long week for me walking around town having to listen to this. Thankfully, I have a large supply of paper bags to wear over my head.
Well, as I said before, congratulations to a team that fought through so many horrific injuries. To come that close with this kind of incompetence on the sidelines speaks volumes about the team's courage.
Maturity, yep. I'm old enough to remember a time where headcoaching was the abode of the seasoned sage. Somebody that had been around football longer than Maas is old. But in these new modern times, and not just in football, theres this thinking that fresh blood should be the new management and coaching and out with the old.
But you really wonder about the wisdom of that ultimately. I don't mean just in sports. I see this all over. Its trotted out that fresh seniority is better, that it brings novel ideas and direction. It brings a lot of stupid rookie mistakes into the equation as well. What occurred yesterday is exactly why you want a seasoned savvy vet as headcoach that has been there before and knows everything inside out about football, about football decision disasters, about overthinking, etc.
As for the Calgary media they ought to be laughing. I hope they laugh so hard that the Esks org realize they have Frankenidiot driving the sedan into the ditch and have no choice to fire him or be the laughingstock until they do and thereafter.
As I stated before all Esks fans would laugh if Calgary folded due to a headcoaching decision like that. We wouldn't stop talking about it, and its that bad, this will be brought up forever. The only saving grace is that it didn't occur during a Grey Cup in which case it would be talked about for eons even more.
The thing is that for anybody not connected to the Esks theres nothing else to do but laugh. Its an embarrassment to the EE that this occurred.
This is worse than Dallas Eakins. There, I said it..