Bombers O-line coach

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Good thing we didn't hire Kris Sweet:

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/sport...157/story.html

The Montreal Gazette’s Herb Zurkowsky wrote on March 3 that the Eskimos O-linemen didn’t respond to former coach Kris Sweet’s full-blast methods.

“There was an open revolt against Sweet by Edmonton’s offensive linemen,” Zurkowsky wrote. “At one point, they went to former head coach Kavis Reed, en masse, threatening not to practice unless Sweet altered his methods. In no uncertain terms, Sweet was hated by the players whom he coached, according to several sources.”

The 2013 season was the only one that Sweet spent with the Eskimos. He was hired by Tom Higgins and the Montreal Alouettes on March 6.

Outwardly, Sweet appeared to be a difficult coach to play for. He was a powder keg of emotion while he ran his players through drills, trying to extract results from them with the volume maxed out, his profanities raining down on them.

Coaches at the pro level have no room for error; they have to get results out of their players. But if the linemen were in fact this unhappy under Sweet, change will be necessary to reach them.

I am not sure what Sweet could have done to alienate his lineman but this can explain why they were so bad last season.

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Good thing we didn't hire Kris Sweet:

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/sport...157/story.html

The Montreal Gazette’s Herb Zurkowsky wrote on March 3 that the Eskimos O-linemen didn’t respond to former coach Kris Sweet’s full-blast methods.

“There was an open revolt against Sweet by Edmonton’s offensive linemen,” Zurkowsky wrote. “At one point, they went to former head coach Kavis Reed, en masse, threatening not to practice unless Sweet altered his methods. In no uncertain terms, Sweet was hated by the players whom he coached, according to several sources.”

The 2013 season was the only one that Sweet spent with the Eskimos. He was hired by Tom Higgins and the Montreal Alouettes on March 6.

Outwardly, Sweet appeared to be a difficult coach to play for. He was a powder keg of emotion while he ran his players through drills, trying to extract results from them with the volume maxed out, his profanities raining down on them.

Coaches at the pro level have no room for error; they have to get results out of their players. But if the linemen were in fact this unhappy under Sweet, change will be necessary to reach them.

I am not sure what Sweet could have done to alienate his lineman but this can explain why they were so bad last season.

 

I thought Sweet would be a good fit for the bombers after his SK tenure... definitely not now - Wonder if he'll yell at Bourke, Perrett et al...

 

Should have just upped Flory to OL Coach

 

When he was in Calgary as an OL coach, I believe the 2009 season, Sweet collapsed on the Stamps bench immediately after the finish of a game in Montreal. He was having difficulty breathing & it looked like an anxiety attack. You'd think he'd have learned his lesson & try to calm down but he obviously hasn't. His coaching method is old school & even that is being kind.

He quit Calgary, went to Saskatchewan where Chamblin fired him after just one season. Then, off to Edmonton last season where he was let  go with all of the other assistant coaches when Kavis Reed was canned. Only now it's coming out he was an abusive coach? That's his style. How could the head coaches who hired him & the players around the league not have known this? In defense of Sweet, that OL in Edmonton wasn't very good & it needed a coach to kick them in the ass to play better BUT.... that type of coaching will only go so far. The players tuned Sweet out in Edmonton.

I'm sure that he'll be the same abusive coach in Montreal that he was in Calgary, Saskatchewan & Edmonton. He won't change unless Higgins makes him. Which means he'll have to ultimately fire him.