I disagree with the thought that there isn’t a reason to fire Flus. My main struggle with Flus is his control of the team. We have the 3rd most penalties, and we are tied for most false starts with the Panthers. Penalties, and especially false starts, are a sign of a coaching weakness. These are fundamentals of football, and things that are focused on at the high school and college levels. If our team can’t even wait until the ball is snapped then that is a problem at the practice level, and a symptom of bad overall coaching. Usually this is because practices are focusing on making plays rather than fundamentals.

You can also see it in the tackles. Every coach will tell you that the way to tackle is to wrap up the person, so even if you don’t take them down you are still inhibiting movement. Instead we have guys throwing shoulders. Yes, throwing a shoulder will sometimes take people down, but if it doesn’t the ball carrier has nothing slowing them down after the hit. We see way too many blown tackles because the defense isn’t wrapping people up. Again, a sign of poor coaching.

I don’t actually think that Flus is a bad coach, but I don’t think he is a coach for a young team that really needs to work on gelling as a team, that needs to focus on fundamentals of football, that needs to develop in almost all areas including QB. He would be great taking over a team of vets, but he’s just not the type of coach we need.

I do think that we could benefit from a college D1 head coach. They are coaches that are used to working with less experienced players. They are good at creating teams atmospheres because their teams drastically change year after year. They are perfect to rebuild with rookies. I would love to see a D1 HC take over the rebuild.