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Does John Gonzalez Read The Sports Guy?
Written by wrigleyville   
Sunday, 15 November 2009
John Gonzalez of the Philly Inquirer has some interesting advice for Eagles coach Andy Reid in this morning's paper: 5. Hire someone to manage the clock. You're good at a lot of things, but time-outs and getting plays in promptly aren't among them. You need someone to stand over your shoulder and whack you with a rolled-up newspaper (not The Inquirer) whenever you're about to waste a time-out for no apparent reason or you're slow to pick a course of action. I have at least five friends who are out of work and would do it for cheap. Think of it as a public service - you'd help lower the unemployment rate. Since Jeffrey Lurie is all about using the Eagles as a device for social betterment, your boss will love it. This very well may be a good idea, but it's one that sounded familiar. Why? Because I had read the exact same thing two days earlier in Bill Simmons' NFL picks column: All right, here's a great e-mail from Jay Modad in Kalamazoo that I received after Andy botched the last five minutes of Sunday's Dallas loss: "Andy Reid is a great coach for 3 and a half quarters. In baseball, most starting pitchers do their job really well for most of the game, then need a little help to finish it out. I think you see where I'm going with this. The Eagles need a closer. A coach that they can bring in at the end of close games when they're trailing, or winning by a touchdown or less (save situations). As asinine as this sounds, tell me Eagles fans wouldn't strongly consider it." Consider it? Are you kidding? They just broke their necks nodding violently. It's a fascinating idea and I spent way too much time thinking about it. Every coach has a flaw or two. It's impossible for them to be perfect. In Andy Reid's case, he knows how to handle the media, build a roster, come up with game plans, delegate to assistants, get his players playing hard for him, keep them prepared and keep them motivated. It's a eight-step job and he nailed seven of the steps. But he's helpless with clock management -- as we saw last Sunday in painful detail -- and since he's been doing this since the mid-90s, it sure seems like he will always be helpless. It's his Achilles' heel. So why not fix it? Either have the Clock Management Closer come in and stand next to him, or even better, just have Reid actually leave the sideline and head into the locker room like a baseball pitcher. He could even get a standing O on his way out. I would love this. Who wouldn't love this? So, this could mean any number of things: 1. John Gonzalez stole the idea from Simmons' Kalamazoo reader. 2. Simmons' Kalamazoo reader also emailed Gonzalez, and Gonzalez just didn't credit him. 3. Gonzalez had the exact same idea to include in his column in the same week the Kalamazoo reader emailed Simmons. 4. Simmons somehow got an advance copy of Gonzalez's Sunday column and stole the idea from him. 5. Gonzalez is the Kalamazoo reader (Finkel is Einhorn). I, for one, am going with No. 5. Curious to think what the Inquirer's editors think.


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