APThe Chargers are expected to keep head coach Mike McCoy following a disappointing season, a San Diego Union-Tribune story said Saturday.
The story says no final decision will be made by team president of football operations John Spanos until after Sunday’s season finale, but Michael Gehlken wrote that a thorough evaluation by key members of the organization left those people with “continued confidence” in McCoy, who’s finishing his third season.
The Chargers, who have lost seven straight division games, go forward with an aging roster and questions about whether they’ll play in San Diego or Los Angeles next season.
“Obviously, I’m focused on Sunday’s game and finishing strong,” McCoy told reporters Friday. “Beyond Sunday, I’m really looking forward to continuing to build this team with Tom (Telesco, the team’s general manager) and John (Spanos). I see so much potential in the group of young players to go with Philip (Rivers) and some of our veterans. I really like what the future holds for this team.”
McCoy is under contract through 2016. Telesco signed a three-year extension before this season.
Smart move by Spanos…
Someone help us….please
Crappy ownership = crappy teams
The “key members of the organization” have made some really great decisions in the past……
Not a good sign if Rex Ryan has a better record than McCoy.
Someone help us….please
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Dude, even though my team is a division rival, I truly feel sorry for you. You deserve better!
McCoy is safe if for no other reason he’s the one HWP coach in a league of Andy Reids, Mike McCarthys, and Rex Ryans (rest easy–he’ll balloon again soon).
Spanos will only fire coaches that go 14-2.
Chiefs Nation is very happy with McCoy.
Chargers will be owned by Andy Reid for the next decade
As a Chargers fan I think I need to educate non-Charger fans on why this just happened.
Dean Spanos retained a coach that went 1-15 once. He’s that cheap and has that little desire to win.
When the Chargers accidentally crushed 3 drafts in a row and accidentally became 14-2, Dean fired that coach. He then handed that loaded roster to Norv Turner. That is the equivalent of handing the keys to your Ferrari to Stevie Wonder.
That great team was Norved for 6 long seasons. Now here’s McCoy. The sports cliché machine with no personality or backbone, taking a team with a healthy Phillip Rivers to 4-12. He gets outcoached right out of the gates every game. Clearly a sub par hire after 3 sub par seasons. But with one year left on his contract, of course Dean will retain him.
Which leads to the easiest prediction of all. They know they don’t have enough votes to LA next year. There is no way you can bring this garbage to a new city that doesn’t even want you. And what better way to keep selling to the NFL that San Diego isn’t a good market by keeping the team as bad as possible.
One could say that San Diego has had the 2 worst owners in pro sports history. Donald Sterling and Dean Spanos.
My god, we deserve better.
Well said !! Dean Spanos is a WASTE of an owner. He could care less about success on the football field, amazing……..
Other teams care about winning above all. The bolts care most about ‘continuity’. It’ll be a few yes before they realize they need to find a new coach, but it really won’t matter if the same idiots are choosing the coach. They don’t mind a coach whose first instinct is to play not to lose. As long as the spanis name is on this team, we get 💩💩💩💩💩💩
Have to agree with 3menandablog on this. From the outside looking in (KC here) this looks like a great way to kill what’s left of the SD fan base.
It personally looks to me like Rivers while being a great talent needs someone to teach him a lot more professional discipline. He just seems way to full of himself and I think it hurts the team IMO.
It’s Major League all over again. They’re trying to lose so badly that no one will care if they move.
Teams looking for a new head coach will have to get really creative. I really don’t know which available coach would be a great improvement for the Chargers. Their biggest issues this season were roster talent and injuries. Also, that GM has not done a very good job with the draft.
@ 3men, dude, so right. McCoy is the vanilla twin of Turner. Nondescript x’s and o’s type guy who instills confidence in no one, is a non leader, and can’t get his players to play up to or beyond his potential. Like you, knowing this ownership, they’d never pull the plug. Oh, they’ll get a couple of new assistants, they might even draft an O or D lineman (Telesco, he of the 3 year extension no one in the public or media knew about for 3 months). Said three years ago throw the money at David Shaw, bust them in the mouth lines with Rivers at QB and just maybe you could compete. As it is they might win a game or two more next year then get rid of the McCoy disaster. Sad to say, but an expected result. Keep the team bad so home season ticket holders sell their’s to visitors then complain to the league there’s no home town support when you yourselves are to blame.
But no!! This report can’t be true! Rappaport and Breer from the NFL Network said San Diego is one of landing spots for Sean Payton since his daughter attends school in California! And we all know those two crap slingers are never wrong!!
No way they go to LA now, this guy is not an LA coach. They don’t have the votes and they know it.
McCoy is a solid coach. The Chargers need to get a new OL coach, as well as new Special Teams coaches.
He’s not that great, but it certainly wasn’t his fault. Blame the guy who saw Melvin Gordon and said yeah, all we need is a mediocre Big 10 RB to put us over the top with our first round pick.
Wait, but why?
McCoy couldn’t coach his way out of a wet paper sack. And that visor! Please. That’s a worse fashion statement than Kaepernick’s giant lid with the starched brim.
The only reason McCoy is being kept around is he’s “paid for”. Spanos doesn’t want to pay the stiff to do nothing next year, hence he stays. One of the cheapest owners in the league, and definitely one of the very worst. Yes, San Diego, you deserve MUCH better.
It really is sad. Spanos does not keep his word to his players or to his fans. Good example of poor ownership overcoming pretty good talent.
RAIDERS
Bronco, Raider, and Chief fans approve of this decision…
Would really be the quintessential Chargers decision if it’s the last thing Spanos does before they skulk out of town.
These imbeciles fired Marty after a 14-2 season out of sheer stupidity (and have never really recovered) and they’re going to keep a guy who couldn’t get guys to follow him out of a burning building.
These are the San Diego Chargers. Can’t possibly imagine why they’ve never won a thing……
As a Raiders fan, I can speak for most of us Raiders fan when I say, awesome!
It’s better to keep him than the Rams to keep Jeff Fisher.
Fisher has final say and had a year more of a chance, higher salary, and the chance to ruin the franchise with 3 quarterbacks.
I can’t take this anymore…
the spanoses are ‘Committed to excrement’
Believe me, He would be fired if he went 14-2!!!
This guy is a pretty good coach. He got decimated by injuries this year, I’d definitely give him one more year.
– A Broncos Fan
Dean got this team handed to him. Dean has never achieved anything on his own. He doesnt know the correct way of being a business man, understanding customers, and the eye for business. He hides behind attorney Mark Fabhhhehoo, hid behind Ron Wolf to find a GM and HC. that is not the behavior of a confident individual. Sell the Chargers and move on.
Spanos is garbage. I hope Spanos is permanently stuck in San Diego, and I hope the taxpayers there never give him another dime.
An article I read thru “The Score” app said he was likely to be let go.
FOX Sports says McCoy is getting let go. I guess we will find out which source is true in the coming week.
Sounds good to me
As a Chargers fan I think I need to educate non-Charger fans on why this just
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As a fellow Charger friend and brother in arms I can commiserate with you and your feelings. That said I think it’s not right to say the Spanos family never wanted to win. Who doesn’t want to win? Sure you could insinuate this year they would try and pull a “Major League” but to say the success of the early to mid 2000’s was an accident is a bit disingenuous. They may have gotten lucky and they are definitely on the lower rungs of NFL ownership in terms of money and decision making. I think their biggest plague is their dedication to nepotism. You have a kid leading the entire football side of the operation who cannot be fired. That is a horrible horrible thing.
Chargers Fan here and I believe this really hinges on their potential move to LA. If they get the green light, then it’s new coach time. If not, then I completely agree with 3menandablog and others here who have alluded to the fact that, since McCoy is under contract for another year, Chargers ownership will keep him around simply because it’s cheaper to do so and this is what they’ve consistently exhibited in the past (saving $ > winning). As far as “Can he coach or not?” I’m on the fence. It’s difficult to know if his struggles are more a case of the dysfunctional organization around him, but he does coach as though he’s scared. In fact, he loves to punt when the team is in their opponent’s territory.
Even if they fire him, the true problem of the Chargers as a franchise (Spanos) will not go away
There are worse coaches in the league. Not many, but some. Worse owners? Um, Haslam, and. . . yep, looks like Spanos is number 2 in more ways than one.
sigh…. I guess there goes 2016 NFL season for diehard Charger fans… I guess I need a new hobby for Sunday afternoons.
Spanos doesn’t want the league to perceive the team as unstable while in a race for LA. If they’re given the green light to move, McCoy won’t be there beyond the 1st season.
as if it wasnt bad enough