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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
it's hard to know what else was going on and if the fight with Copeland was simply the last straw, but I do know coaches are employed as long as they win, so I can imagine that it was some combination of:
The rest of the players have no respect for Armour
He's not as good as he used to be
He gets into trouble all the time or at least more than we know about
The incident with Copeland was significant and aboug 100% Armours fault
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I don't know about the first one. Both coach's and players stated he will catch on somewhere else based on his talent. But both also stated that there has to be mutual respect and a adherence to the rules. So it leads me to thinking he has been a problem child all along but his talent was a big mitigating factor. They finally were tired of his act and he managed to get himself booted off a championship team. That it won't be a blow is a complete fantasy on some fans part. He was a very, very important part of the defense.
They remove a distraction but they also remove a very talented player. The defensive line is already a maybe this year and now they have a big gap to fill in the linebacking corps. Then again if complacency was going to set in this year this will have sure woken them up in a hurry.
They will still put up points but I suspect the defense is going to take awhile this year to get up to snuff.