How about this? He makes more mistakes than I like to see in a head coach that has been on the job for 8 years or whatever. How many challenges does a team get unless they win both challenges?
How easy of a rule is that? Garrett should know that by now, especially with how often he loses challenges. If the average football fan who is sitting on their couch can keep track of how many challenges Payton used, can we not expect Garrett to know?
He had no clue. Every down is precious in a game like that. You're trying to keep Brees on the sideline. To run up to the line and essentially waste a play when you don't have to, that's rookie mistake shit.
I'll give you the point that I don't know how many bonehead decisions go on league wide each week, but I witness my fair share when I turn on a Cowboy game.
I don't agree that it's a "rookie mistake shit." It's a rule that we all know and I guarantee you it's a rule that Garrett knows too. In the heat of the game, it's something that is probably lost track of. Not that he doesn't know the rule.
Now, is it a mistake to lose track of how many challenges Payton has left? Sure. But this is where you lose me with hyperbole.
It's a mistake. It's not a "rookie" mistake, unless you have some sort of evidence that no experienced coach has ever made that mistake before. And you cannot possibly quantify how often other coaches make similar mistakes, because you are neither tracking nor even watching the other coaches with anywhere near the amount of regularity that you watch Garrett.
All you have is anecdotal evidence -- and even that is without hard numbers, instead supported by your "feeling," of what is too many. But you aren't even able to accurately explain why the number you have selected as "too many," is too many.
You just have no idea. I don't have any idea either. None of us do.
That's what 90% of these Garrett debates devolve into. I'm a "Garrett lover," because I'm forced to defend evidence-less accusations that he is somehow the worst offender of all this, when in reality, no one has any clue if that is true. The constant rebuttal is "I never see (name a coach) making that mistake/this many mistakes." NO SHIT! You aren't watching (name that coach) every week!
And if your reference point is Bill Belichick/Sean Payton (oops, Sean Payton made more egregious errors last night than Garrett did)/Andy Reid (a CONSTANT game mismanager)/Sean McVay, or any of the other top coaches in the league, yes, I think we all agree that Garrett is not in that category.
It's a fair point that Garrett has not accomplished what you would expect a coach who is tenured as long as he is to have accomplished. But let's stick to that criticism then. It's time for him to win. Certainly a finish out of the playoffs, and the cries to replace him will get very loud. On the other hand, if he wins the division, it's hard to fire him after that.
But at any given time in the league there are probably at least a good 10-15 other coaches who are, at least, no better than Garrett is at their jobs, and make just as many mistakes if not more.