Posted June 25, 201411 yr comment_60188 Here's Burke throwing ALL the players under the bus. According to him he really played no part in it! “I didn’t want to take the job but somebody had to ... I knew we didn’t have the talent,” said Burke, who moved from defensive coordinator to replace the fired Paul LaPolice in August, 2012. Tim Burke would like a mulligan on his first shot at being a head coach. The Argonauts defensive co-ordinator said Tuesday in a conference call that he would like “a second chance”. Burke waited 33 years, working as an assistant in U.S. colleges and with several CFL clubs, before being asked to take over the Blue Bombers in the middle of the 2012 season. “I didn’t want to take the job but somebody had to ... I knew we didn’t have the talent,” said Burke, who moved from defensive coordinator to replace the fired Paul LaPolice in August, 2012. He was right. A 7-21 record later, he himself was fired after last season. Now he’s defensive coordinator in Toronto. “I’d like another shot (as a head coach). Whether I get it, I don’t know,” he said. Even noted NFL head coach Bill Belichick, he said, didn’t have an auspicious debut. “He had three long seasons in Cleveland and came back and did all right when he got a second chance. I hope I get a second chance.”
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60191 I'm surprised no one has had a "talk" with Burke yet to explain how stupid he looks by constantly throwing his players under the bus and blaming everyone but himself. He takes zero responsibility. He just doesn't get it. He's never getting another head coaching opportunity. Book it.
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60194 I think what Burke said was dead on- he didn't have the talent (quarterback and O-line) and he certainly conducted himself as if he neither wanted to be the head coach nor expected to win.
June 25, 201411 yr Author comment_60195 I think what Burke said was dead on- he didn't have the talent (quarterback and O-line) and he certainly conducted himself as if he neither wanted to be the head coach nor expected to win. He may not have had the best talent in some places, but he had plenty of talent in others...He was just too lazy and lacked the talent himself to be a head coach!
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60196 He may not have had the players to compete. He also did not have the coaching experience to compete as a HC. He didn't have the heart, the drive, or display the passion. Everyone has a choice. You don't have to take a HC job. Accept the fact you were in over your head and stop trying to rationalize the **** pile of a coaching job that he left on the field here.
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60197 No coach on Earth could have won with those QBs and O-line but many probably could have done a bit better, but not well enough to make the playoffs.
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60198 Burke doesn't have the talent or the acumen to be a head coach and its overrated as a DC.
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60199 I certainly hope that if we are beating Toronto in the 4th that Burke tells the Defense to "Take A Knee".......
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60203 I'm glad Mike double posted because that deserved to be said twice...
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60205 So for those who say the players quit last season, this sounds like the coach quit first.
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60206 Burke wasn't wrong describing the lack of talent but then he wasn't a leader either. He couldn't inspire Anthony Robbins on a good day. And saying he didn't know offense so he'd leave the decision up to others? And he wants a second chance? Sure, Tim. Keep dreaming. #littleboylost
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60207 Wow. I cannot believe he did a double bitchslap of "i didnt want the job" and "the talent wasnt there" What a pompous raging thunder ******... hope he falls into coaching pergatory..
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60208 So for those who say the players quit last season, this sounds like the coach quit first. We all knew that.
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60211 It's too bad his loser mentality had to permeate our team and waste a season and a half of our time and money. Lapolice is probably an average head coach, we'll see what O'Shea becomes as a head coach, but at least they have the mentality of "what can we do to make this team better," not "ho hum, we suck" like Burke. Just a totally depressing, dark age in Blue Bomber history.
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60213 Funny how all this is clear in retrospect. Its also curious how none of the supposedly astute sports reporters called it for what it was last season.
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60216 Thanks for posting this. This is great. Can you imagine this clown (and I know clowns) on his next HC job interview? You know, I'm really anxious to see what Chris Jones does here. He too is a former DC as everyone knows. I wonder how he'll handle adversity when it happens. Mr. Burke, you just realized you put the final nail in your coffin. You'd be he last guy I'd hire - zero accountability
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60217 Jones isn't getting off to a great start with the Edmonton media. He sounds like a Kelly clone & that did not end well.
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60218 Jones isn't getting off to a great start with the Edmonton media. He sounds like a Kelly clone & that did not end well. Yes he does, him an Hervey seem to be on a crash course to oblivion themselves. But I still want to see how he handles everything. Will he blame other people? Hell, he might blame Burke lol.
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60219 His quotes show how utterly clueless he was last year. In my opinion coaching was one of the biggest problems last year, right beside lack of a good QB.
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60220 Jones isn't getting off to a great start with the Edmonton media. He sounds like a Kelly clone & that did not end well. Yes he does, him an Hervey seem to be on a crash course to oblivion themselves. But I still want to see how he handles everything. Will he blame other people? Hell, he might blame Burke lol. Jones isn't getting off to a great start with the Edmonton media. He sounds like a Kelly clone & that did not end well. Yes he does, him an Hervey seem to be on a crash course to oblivion themselves. But I still want to see how he handles everything. Will he blame other people? Hell, he might blame Burke lol. I sat beside Jones at a football banquet the day he quit the Stamps & nearly had a dust up with Huff in his office. Nobody knew he had left the team. He was talking to me about coordinating the Stamps off season free agent camps that winter in the US & how much he was looking forward to doing that. Even though he had already resigned to go to the Argos.The news broke the next morning about the messy breakup. I just thought, Hmmm... Why even talk about the Stamps free agent camps to me & how excited he was when he wasn't there anymore? He could have talked about a hundred other general CFL topics. To his credit, Jones did show up to our high school banquet & gave a nice speech. It couldn't have been a great day for him. It was probably the last place he wanted to be.
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60221 He's right about one thing though, it was a mistake to fire Lapo. Remember when everybody thought he was going to turn the team around because the first practise was up tempo and they did gassers? It was like "well this was the problem all along, we needed up tempo practices and gassers for going offside". Because it's just that obvious. Three days later 52-0.
June 25, 201411 yr comment_60222 I remember many weeks of him making excuses, lots of droopy dog faces, zero motivation and a while bunch of questionable coaching decisions.
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