Why do sportswriters love good soundbytes?

I had not intended my blogs to be only about sports but since I spend a lot of my free time watching and reading about sports, I can't help but have thoughts on this subject. And so once again I had to write about the recent NFL coaching changes occuring all over the league. In the day and age of free agency and salary caps, teams are impatient to get results soon. New coaches do not have the freedom to build a team according to their policy and guidelines. There are constant chops and changes and it was not so apparent as it is at the end of this past season when as many as 7 coaches were fired and 1 resigned (tearfully I may add).

Of the 1 resigned coach, he had made sure that when he left his team was probably in the best shape possible except for minor improvements needed on the defensive front. It is truly unselfish of Dick Vermeil to call it a day when he felt he could not add to the teams success. And so it was announced that his successor would be coach Herm Edwards of the NY J-E-T-S... Jets..Jets..Jets. What was so great about this coach and his record that the Chiefs had to let go of a 4th round draft pick to hire him. He has had an average record since being the Jets coach and while his fans may point out that he has had to cope with injury problems during his tenure, he has done nothing but dissapoint Jets fans with a disappointing season every year. The reason he is popular is because of the delicious sound bytes he provides in NFL primetime or Sportscenter making him a known face. "You play to win the game". That's all he will be good for. Now we can rest back and watch him grind this Chiefs team down in the ground. With great talent like Larry Johnson wasted. The Chiefs should just have appointed Offensive co-ordinator to the Head coaching position and awarded him for his hard work of keeping the Chiefs offence a focal point for the past few years. They would thus have kept that draft pick and maybe traded Priest Holmes for a few more picks to bolster the defence and take the next step towards supremacy.