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Epstein: ‘Change Obviously Called for if We Keep Playing Like This’

It’s one thing for fans to lament the fortunes of their team when things aren’t going well, but they don’t always have the best perspective. And the media, even those of us — especially those of us — on the outer fringes of that designation, may sometimes be guilty of playing to those whims in search of clicks. But when the people running the show are telling you there’s a problem, well, there’s a legit problem.

Speaking through what sounded like a soup can connected to the 670 The Score studios by a string, Epstein bemoaned his team’s poor play and came across as a man who’d run out of answers.