{"id":15584,"date":"2010-11-22T19:19:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T01:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15584"},"modified":"2010-11-22T20:53:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T02:53:34","slug":"you-are-exactly-3-7-coach-exactly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15584","title":{"rendered":"You Are Exactly 3-7, Coach. Exactly."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after the Minnesota Vikings announced the firing of head coach Brad Childress,\u00a0 the team&#8217;s former defensive coordinator and now interim head coach uttered probably the dumbest, and sadly quite common cliche a sports personality can.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/sports\/vikings\/109908409.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU1yDEmP:QMDCinchO7DU\">Leslie Frazier said the Vikings are a better football team than their 3-7 record<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, coach, it&#8217;s the games and the results thereof that, in fact, determine how good &#8211; or in this case bad &#8211; you are. That&#8217;s sort of the point of playing other teams, keeping track of the results, and ultimately promoting the better teams to the playoffs and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>You are precisely as good as your win\/loss record. There is <em>no other measure<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Unless, there is a community service allowance we&#8217;re not aware of and that might be traded in for say a 5-5 record?<\/p>\n<p>[checks the NFL rule book]<\/p>\n<p>Nope. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe next year you will be a better team. How will we know?<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll win more games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after the Minnesota Vikings announced the firing of head coach Brad Childress,\u00a0 the team&#8217;s former defensive coordinator and now interim head coach uttered probably the dumbest, and sadly quite common cliche a sports personality can. Leslie Frazier said the Vikings are a better football team than their 3-7 record Uh, coach, it&#8217;s the games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15584"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15597,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584\/revisions\/15597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}