Green Bay Packers special teams coach Shawn Slocum.
Genius.
Exceptional.
Extraordinary.
Talent.
Effective.
Those are just some of the words that come to mind when thinking of this brilliant man.
Wait…
What was that sound?
Oh, a record scratching and snapping me back into reality.
Shawn Slocum has long been the completely obvious weak link on the Green Bay Packers coaching staff. Say what you will about Mike McCarthy, Dom Capers and so forth, none of those guys comes anywhere close to the consistent level of ineptitude exhibited by Shawn Slocum.
We’ve said it a million times if we’ve said it once. In any other workplace in normal society, Slocum would have been out of a job a long time ago.
His units consistently rank near the bottom of the league and are known more for colossal mistakes than they are for creating big plays.
The Packers and, more specifically, coach Mike McCarthy, fired then special teams coach Mike Stock following the 2008 season for similar failures. McCarthy has since gotten rid of two of Slocum’s assistants — Curtis Fuller and Chad Morton.
The latter dismissal is why we’re here talking about Slocum again today. Morton was hired by the Seattle Seahawks for the same position shortly after the Packers dismissed him last offseason. Although all the evidence they needed regarding the Packers special teams’ tendencies was on film, the Seahawks say Morton helped them understand the calls, schemes, etc.
Because Slocum doesn’t change those things. Why would you ever change those things?
As you surely know by now, the Seahawks knew Brad Jones played too aggressively on field goals. Seattle saw this on tape and that led to the fake field goal call in the NFC Championship game. And of course, that led to a touchdown and the game unraveled from there.
Here’s where this story gets better.
We asked the question after the game. Why would the Packers even be trying to block the field goal there? They were up 16-0. The only play is to play the potential fake. If you give up three, who cares?
According to one Packers’ player, Slocum called for a block left (off the Seahawks’ left side), which also was the short side of the field. Teams rarely rush from the short side.
Of course Shawn Slocum called for a block on the play. He’s Shawn Slocum.
Icon.
Great.
Legend.
There is no way this ass clown deserves a job in the nfl!!! Why mcfatass refuses to see the 2 weakest links right in front of him is beyond me!! 4 years of early playoff exits because of clowns like capers and slocum..would be enough for me to toss them to the curb!! The next time i see either one of these two fucknuts they better be asking me if i want fries with that!!
Because MM will NOT be told by you little people who he should and should not fire. He will be keeping Slocum just for spite now…
#7 written by Randy R
09/27/2011 – 7:34 pm
FINALLY…I’ve been screaming about Slocum for 2 years to be shit canned…He’s a horrible coach. No improvement year after year after year. I wish i could go to my job, perform near the bottom of the scale, have no accountabilities, and get new contracts and raises..WOW. WTF is going on?..MM or TT don’t see a problem?…I figured, because they won the S B. He wouldnt be fired this year. When you win the S B, everyone gets moved up, or takes a better job, I think its safe to say no other teams have been vying for Slocums services.
haven’t you ever heard the truism: dummies hire dummies? who hired Mike #1? who hired Mike #2? it is time to focus in on the real problem: Mike #2 was not aware, or has since forgot, that he was hired as a full time HC, not a full time OC and part time HC.
so no wonder why the ghost of Mike #1 re-appeared at the worst possible time: e.g., when Favre had one foot to go for a first down and run out the clock in that heretofore most infamous playoff game by the pack, in philthy. so mike #1 decides to punt instead, and gains a mere 20 yards in field position. but by the luck of the clueless, somehow gets mcNabb to stumble into a 4th and 26. and the rest is history, except that it somehow comes back from the tomb and finds its way into the 2014 GB playbook! inexplicable, say many. but i say this is a golden opportunity to fall back on the tried and true GB solution: fire the coach/es responsible for such irresponsible prep and execution of a “finishing” strategy/playbook for a won game. was it lack of practising? was it lack of player package selection? it was actually the “common core” of all these faults: MM’s “anti-Lombardi” approach to his job: favoritism of coaches and players, including a selfish favoritism of himself, i.e., assigning himself to his favorite role, OC, in complete denial of his extensive history of close losses of “won” games caused by consistently predictable botched “finishes” and busted two min. drills, in spite of the no. of times AR has been able cover his ass and pull out a game saving final drive.
Shawn is as shitty of a coach as his dad, RC. They talk him up as being such a hot shot coach at A&M, but the sad fact is, his Bowl record was 3-8. The son needs to be fired yesterday.
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Slocum should have been fired long ago because of his unattractiveness. The man is ugly and an incompetent fool.
who is? r u talking about just Slocum? just one, or two, or the whole useless crew?