...and I wonder:
If you discipline your "stars" the same way you do your backups, would a guy like
Torry Holt make that catch in the Carolina game, instead of just non-chalantly alligator arming the attempt, and laugh about it on the sideline?
Now I'm not saying he would have, or that he didn't try to make that grab, but this is the discipline stuff that makes one team better than the next. You can't get complacent. You have to always be pushing to get better, even your so-called "star players".
Coaching 101. Mad Mike, the absent minded professor, and OC extrodinaire.
Still, I think there is no choice but to give him next year as well, as he made this bed, so he needs to sleep in it. Aside from the FO stuff, improve the O'line and linebackers, and who knows?