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Friday, November 21, 2008
Savage slips up badly this time
So, let me get this straight. General Manager Phil Savage fires off a profane e-mail to an insolent fan, and he does it AFTER the Monday night win over Buffalo.
Makes you wonder what he might have done following a tough loss. Hunt the guy down? Set fire to his house?
Why Savage would be moved to respond to anything a fan wrote in an e-mail is hard to fathom. But why he would do it after one of the season’s rare successes simply boggles the mind.
I know that Savage and the dolt (is there any other word for the guy who started this?) have apologized to each other and this is supposed to mean everything is forgotten, but Savage needs to be sending a better message about how to react under pressure and, dare I say it, like the Christian he tells us he is.
Generally, I’ve been a Savage supporter through the various draft busts and occasional controversies. I took his side when John Collins, then the team president, got power hungry, tried to force him out and was shown the door.
Sure, I was critical when Savage didn’t call Kellen Winslow while he lay in a hospital bed with a staph infection, and I thought it was immature of him to scold the media during training camp a few years back for asking him a few questions he didn’t want to hear.
While the team’s record might not reflect it yet, Savage has done a reasonable job. He’s brought a talent-evaluator’s eye to the building and I think this season might just be a hiccup that organizations go through before getting it together.
Then again, incidents like this make you wonder whether the job might be getting to Savage and how long he might last as the team’s architect. In light of the e-mail flap, it is at least fair to wonder.
