I think Jay Glazer reported that Chud asked for a meeting with management Monday morning to campaign for his job. No idea if this is true or not, but clearly Chud knew this was coming and coming fast.
The urgency with which the Browns acted (and ignoring the request for a conversation) either makes them look incredibly petty and unprofessional or decisive depending on your POV.
I suppose if there’s something really bad happening behind the scenes and they HAD to move on, I can see how Chud leaking the request about asking for the meeting might force them to announce immediately. But if there isn’t anything more than a simple difference of opinion and/or disappointment in results I would personally think he deserves a chance to have the meeting.
Snyder is a D-bag, but in this one cause he’s not the guy that I’d be pointing fingers at. This mess is all Shanahan’s. The nepotism and megalomania got the best of him and there may be no worse GM in football than Shanny. I’m sure Snyder will say something stupid and of course he was the idiot who drank the Shanny Kool-aid to begin with, but this firing and the RG3 fiasco are not dings on his resume.
How the hell is Bruce Allen safe? This is the same GM that torpedoed the Bucs’ Superbowl-winning roster and torpedoed the Redskins’ … not-winning-anything roster.
First rumors are they are looking at Whisenhunt. I don’t know all that much about him, but he has shown a good spark for offensive play calling at times. But can he bring the foot down and smash some nuts when it is required?
O’Brien to the Texans is coming into shape. I was really entertained the other day by this story. It’s a pretty typical puff piece about O’Brien and how much he loves the Happy Valley area, loves the community, and could very well stay at Penn State! And you know he’s committed to PSU because he signed a contract! The same day a different SI piece said in no uncertain terms “Make no mistake, O’Brien has made it clear to those around him he wants back into the NFL and he’s ready to leave the Nittany Lions right now.” He has every right to handle his career how he wants, but what a bunch of baloney from Sports Illustrated.
I think this will be a good hire for the Bucs. They are a pretty talented group and the defensive personnel fit the Lovie version of the Tampa 2. Lovie couldn’t recognize a QB if his life depended on it, so the Tedford move makes great sense on paper.
The scary thing is the no-GM comment. When it comes to talent evaluation, self scouting and player development Lovie is an unmitigated disaster.
Bucs fans had better hope there’s a GM or a player personnel guy coming in with great chops who Lovie will listen to.
The Glazers have been pretty set on keeping the GM and coach roles separate since the even less mitigated disaster of having Jon Gruden run everything. I am thrilled about the Lovie hire, but I’m not entirely sure he is a good fit. For one thing, we are paying Darelle Revis $16 million a year, which just isn’t necessary in a Cover 2 scheme. Having said that, Revis played just as well in a zone this season as he did in man-to-man earlier in his career, so maybe they’ll implement a modified scheme where he switches sides with the opponent’s best receiver or something.
Tampa Bay decided to go with Leslie Frazier instead of Rod Marinelli as DC. It’s being reported that Ken Whisenhunt is the favorite for the Detroit job.