Vitt Not Fit to Coach Saints LB's Any More

Jack Vegas · 01-09-2015, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by VegasSaint9

The reason people want his head is because he hasn't developed a single linebacker into a playmaker in his tenure. You could argue any linebacker we brought to the team either significantly regressed (hawthorne) or only stayed the same or marginally regressed (lofton). Now the FO has been horrible at acquiring LB talent, but still you'd think he'd polish one guy enough to be decent in his time here. He has to go or stop being the LB coach. I know he has other duties with the team why can he just be asst head coach or something. Now we don't know the real intracacies, but it appears on the surface that he hasn't made anyone look better than they are, and thats exactly what good coaches do. They bring some players to the next level and make avg guys look good and bad guys look avg.

Fujita didn't regress, I would argue he became better. Shanle certainly didn't regress until age/injuries took hold. Humber has become at least a reliable role player. Lofton is a better player now than he ever was for the Falcons. Dunbar became a pretty decent player and now starts for the Rams I think. Casillas moved on to become a starter for another team. The problem is more, as you said, we haven't made strong efforts to get prime linebacker talent in the system. That's likely not Vitt's fault.

01-09-2015, 11:14 AM	#11
Jack Vegas 1000 Posts + Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 2,254	Re: Vitt Not Fit to Coach Saints LB's Any More Originally Posted by VegasSaint9 The reason people want his head is because he hasn't developed a single linebacker into a playmaker in his tenure. You could argue any linebacker we brought to the team either significantly regressed (hawthorne) or only stayed the same or marginally regressed (lofton). Now the FO has been horrible at acquiring LB talent, but still you'd think he'd polish one guy enough to be decent in his time here. He has to go or stop being the LB coach. I know he has other duties with the team why can he just be asst head coach or something. Now we don't know the real intracacies, but it appears on the surface that he hasn't made anyone look better than they are, and thats exactly what good coaches do. They bring some players to the next level and make avg guys look good and bad guys look avg. Fujita didn't regress, I would argue he became better. Shanle certainly didn't regress until age/injuries took hold. Humber has become at least a reliable role player. Lofton is a better player now than he ever was for the Falcons. Dunbar became a pretty decent player and now starts for the Rams I think. Casillas moved on to become a starter for another team. The problem is more, as you said, we haven't made strong efforts to get prime linebacker talent in the system. That's likely not Vitt's fault. lumm0x, Danno and Foot Stomper like this.
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