I’ve never understood this thinking. Kliff Kingsbury is almost Trumpian in his ability to fail upward. He was able to run a college level offense that works for a little bit (thanks to Patrick Mahomes), and then loses repeatedly. Losing record at mid Texas Tech? Get a NFL HC job in Arizona. Losing record in Arizona? Get an OC job in DC? Losing record
and pedestrian offensive numbers? Get another NFL HC job?
I don’t get it at all, and even less now after failure in Arizona and mediocrity in DC. But I’m more than happy to see an NFL team (not tge Packers) give him another oppurtunity to fail.
From what I gather there is a very limited number of people who can/want be a coach of any kind in the NFL, let alone a head coach. Even one that does it badly is still among an elite and very limited field. He may be bottom of the barrel, but he’s still in the barrel.
It’s not a great year for candidates, and I’ll give him credit for being a good QB whisperer, though I agree he’s not the greatest HC candidate. It is hard to put all the losses in Washington on him - the defense was by far the worse offender.
If one of these teams has a rookie QB or intends to take one early in the draft, which tends to describe teams that have fired their HC, gives him a shot intending to develop their QB but mainly as a bridge to a better coach down the line, he wouldn’t be the worst idea.
After firing Mike McDaniel yesterday, the Dolphins indicated that they would start their coaching search after hiring a new GM, which they planned to have accomplished by today. It looks like they have settled on Jon-Eric Sullivan.
Sullivan is currently the Packers’ VP of Player Personnel, and has spent the last 22 years working his way up through the Packers scouting and player personnel organization. He will, of course, not only have to recruit a new coach for Miami, but figure out what to do about the Tua Tagovaiola contract.
I’m thinking about the talent that the Packers have added to their roster, and I can say that’s not a bad choice based on that. I remember how Green Bay was raked over the coals for drafting Jordan Love with Rodgers still on the roster…
The ESPN article on Sullivan notes a number of other current and former NFL GMs who came up through the Packers’ front office, including John Schneider, John Dorsey, and Brian Gutekunst.
A big part of the reason why the Packers have been able to be consistently good-to-great for over 30 years is the strong front office and smart personnel decisions. One of the best decisions that the Pack ever made was making Ron Wolf their GM in 1991.
Yeah, Schneider still has ties with the Packers, and sometimes you hear about Seattle and Green Bay making deals because of it. The Packers have a great front office, they are like the Anti-Cleveland.
And, he grew up in the Green Bay area. He attended the same high school that I did (though he’s enough younger than me that we weren’t in school at the same time), and his older sister is a friend of mine dating back to our high school days.
During the 2020 Draft, when everyone was working remotely, Schneider was working from his home office, and one of the football helmets on his credenza (seen in a lot of video shots from the draft) was from our old high school team. It’s the one on the right, just under the American flag, in this picture:
