He was cut last week. How many times have you heard of a team cutting a punt returner during the season who already has a return for a touchdown? Me neither.

So that leaves us with the head coach. As the highest paid clipboard holder in the league, you would hope that he's worth the money, right out of the box. That's clearly not the case. Spurrier is just getting his bruises (ego, mostly) this first tour of the "big leagues." He's figuring out what works, and what doesn't.

And mainly, everything that worked in college, is useless here. At Florida, Spurrier's big trick was to switch QB's, spike his visor, and throw some more. At Florida, that worked wonders. In this league, with average talent, it's a disaster.

Everybody says that Spurrier is a "very smart guy." Without proof of his MENSA membership, I presume this is based on the fact he won a lot of games and a national championship in college. Last time I checked, Dennis Erickson also won a lot of games, threw the ball a lot, and won a national championship.

Erickson didn't get $25 million from the Seahawks. Mainly because he failed to build a "mystique" about his coaching prowess like Spurrier has. If you look at the raw passing numbers over similar periods, there's really no difference between Spurrier and Erickson, or Erickson and Butch Davis.

Spurrier had the visor, the offensive nickname "Fun and Gun" and a great schtick of running up the score and talking trash afterward (remember, Ray "Goof" and "you can't spell Citrus Bowl with a U and a T?)

That makes Spurrier a helluva coaching personality, and I'm sure buckets of fun at a golf outing.

But it doesn't make him a good NFL coach.

Being that will simply take good old fashioned hard work, and the willingness to let go of some of his past. There's no need to stop throwing the ball altogether, but when a sloppy game like the Giants is sitting there waiting to be had in the mud, you get down on all fours, get dirty and grab it.

There is a growing whisper that if things don't finish any better this year, that Spurrier may pull a Lou Holtz and return to college after one forgettable year in the pros. To that I say, "oh no, you made this mess, you'll stick around to at least try to clean in up."

What my team needs more than anything, is an off-season with minimal coaching and front office turnover. It has been three straight years of churn and burn, three straight years different visions of how to build an NFL team.

Spurrier may not be as brilliant as some have claimed, but I doubt he's an idiot. He should now know that he can't win in this league with every ex-Gator who is "cheap and available" as he boasted back in June.

And he wants to throw, which is fine. Let's go get him some tools for the job. It starts with a big time NFL arm, and there's no better time than now to play the rookie Patrick Ramsey from here on out. His performance will tell enough as to whether you need to shop for a QB this winter.

Then it's time for a gambreaking wideout. Both Issac Bruce and David Boston will be free agents. Neither will be cheap, and Bruce is 31 and prone to fumbles. He may not even want to leave St. Louis.

But Snyder better have his checkbook ready.

The NFL is all about fine lines. Distinctions, subtleties, and small advantages in seemingly innocent roster spots. Right now, Spurrier is straddling that line between clever and stupid. If he wants to fall on the right side of the equation, it will take more than ex-Gators and a southern folksy twang.

In other words, it is time to go to work.