I liked the beer thing last year with the linemen, but his arrogance is hurting the team. He needs to design the scheme to the players, not assume that his scheme is more important than what they do well, and that seems to be an issue at times. His derisive “fantasy” crap doesn’t mean anything when the team isn’t good: he’s screwing up fantasy teams and Atlanta.

I cannot stand many of his pass route combos that seem to draw defenders into the action isntead of away from it. I was watching the SF game this weekend and came away very frustrated with how much better Shanahan is at scheming guys open: defenders were exiting the area that the ball was being thrown to, whereas Smith’s offense often has them converging.