The Raiders are keeping Dennis Allen around.
If he’s ever going to have people working for him in football again, I think it’d be preferable that those people know he has a history of being willing to stand with his staff, even if it cost him his own job.
Or, conversely, if he’d agreed to stay, under the terms of “you can only stay if you fire your staff”, and that story ever got out, I have to imagine that future possible hires might not trust Munchak to have their own best interests in mind.
Give some credit to the groundskeeper that contributed to RG3’s blown out knee.
As noted in another thread, Washington is hiring Jay Gruden.
It looks like the rumors that the Browns wanted McDaniels was overblown, and it looks like he pulled himself out of the search when it was clear they weren’t leaning towards giving him the job. The way they so confidently fired Chud, it seemed like they had someone else in mind, but they apparently don’t. Gase (OC Denver) seems to be a leading candidate even though he hasn’t done anything particularly impressive in his career so far as I can tell, or McAdoo, a QB coach from GB…
I guess I’m hoping for Whisenhunt at this point because, while I’m not a big fan, at least he’s a credible coach sort of person. But then I don’t know the candidates, I’m okay with taking an aggressive risky guy who hasn’t gone through the ‘proper’ path yet, it’s just that I have no faith for this FO to find the right guy. So I’d settle for a base hit rather than let them take a swing for a home run.
The Lions have one of the better backup situations in the whole league in Shaun Hill.
I read a bit about the situation Lovie has built for himself in Tampa and I think Bucs fans should start bracing themselves for misery.
First there’s the nepotism of giving his son the job as DB coach which is a giant red flag. Lovie fancies himself a DB guru, so he’ll have a heavy hand there, but there’s no way Mikal is well rounded enough to handle that job in todays NFL. Also, Raheem Morris is a DB specialist as well, so the position won’t be lost but none the less its extremely unprofessional and a bad sign.
The nepotism is ultimately a sign that Lovie has full control over everything in Tampa, which is confirmed by reports that Lovie has full control over the roster. Yikes. Its going to get ugly.
Lovie is a heck of a players coach, guys always give 100% effort and it will be a mature, classy locker room of tight knit guys. Lovie owns that stuff and its a credit. What he can’t do, at all, is recognize and develop talent. No one drafter more terrible players than an empowered Lovie. Compounding matters is that Lovie doesn’t seem to trust his scouts or consider all options. He has a narrow focus in the draft. His biggest weakness is a complete inability to self-scout. He plays favorites and overvalues good clubhouse, good practice players at the expense of gameday quality backups. Young players never develop because he caters heavily to veterans with limited upside.
Plus, with no Cliff Stein, there’s a huge risk of Lovie botching the cap in a huge way.
Have fun Tampa. Expect two good years and a long steady decline to irrelevance.
But you have to admit, that’s a step up from the last…10 years or so.
Looks like the Browns are going to hire Gase, OC of the Broncos. Apparently he coached some peewee ball or something and then fetched Peyton Manning some Gatorade this year.
We won a Super Bowl with that guy, except his name was Jon Gruden. And our current roster is as talented (taking both offense and defense into account) as the one that won it all. I’ll take the 5-8 years of irrelevance if he can give us two years of greatness.
Where did you hear this? ESPN says they’re interviewing Munchak today.
This is one of the things that really bugs me about the coaching carousel: some teams seem to have this idea that “successful coordinator always equals head coach candidate.” Gase has been the OC in Denver for one year (running Mike McCoy’s system), and he’s coaching Peyton Fucking Manning and possibly the best collective talent Manning has ever had around him. I could get 500 yards a game out of that roster. The same thing is happening in Seattle, where Dan Quinn is now a head coaching candidate after one year running the defense. Look, guys, they’ve got Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas and a bunch of other stars - and they’re running the scheme installed by Gus Bradley. If you want to hire a decent head coach, go look at the guys whose teams are producing with shitty talent. Sean McDermott comes to mind; I couldn’t name a single guy on the Panthers’ defense before this season except Luke Kuechly and Charles Johnson.
With Mike Glennon as your QB, I don’t think “greatness” will be possible.
Lovie’s defense works very well when you have a great DE, a great MLB, and at least one great DB, and not horrible safeties. The Bucs have that great DB in Revis (although they seriously overpay), and I like Lavonte David and Mason Foster to play the Briggs/Urlacher roles (although questions remain about both of them). But for the system to work, they have to generate a pass rush using just 4 defensive linemen. The Bucs were the 9th worst team in sacks last year (although I admit to not watching much of their games to see if that stat is misleading). I’m not sure Lovie will have great success without that pass rush.
Mike Glennon > Brad Johnson. And he might be great down the road (though I don’t see much more than a capable backup.) The defensive line was hit pretty hard by injuries. Gerald McCoy made the Pro Bowl playing at about 75%.
No no no no… Sean McDermott stinks. You don’t want him. Move along… Nothing to see here… Go on, shoo!
Local media, and he’s been a big part of the search from the beginning. It would make sense as to why they don’t seem to be searching terribly hard - they may have had their guy already and can’t act on it for a few weeks yet.
I’m inclined to agree, but there’s reason to think there’s more to it than that. Banner is the lead guy in the FO (slimy little worm that he is), and he claims to have been a crucial part in finding Andy Reid in Philly, who at the time was a QB coach and didn’t have the right pedigree you’d normally associate with a head coaching candidate. Similarly, there have been some names heavily associated with the search - including ironically current Packers QB coach MacAdoo, so it seems like they’re willing to find a guy who they view as up and coming and not yet accomplished.
The Haslems and the Mannings are very close, apparently the Browns owner talks to Peyton Manning a lot, and Manning raves about the guy and think he’s an up and comer.
So if they do hire him, I don’t think his success as a Denver OC is the main factor - I think they’d consider him even if he was a position coach. Although it’s still noteworthy to have a recording setting season, even with all that talent - better than Manning has ever been, at 37 years old.
Also, the position is toxic and no one wants it, so they’re probably not going to land the candidates that seem most likely to be the next batch of HCs. They probably have to look for a young up and coming making a big jump.
I don’t know enough about the guy to have an opinion one way or another.
Gerald McCoy made the Pro Bowl this year with 9 sacks, and I’ve read commentators argue that the incessant stunts run by the DC reduced their effectiveness. (Here’s an example.)
Johnson had a 92.9 rating that Super Bowl year. Glennon, in his last 5 games, topped out at 78.7.
You’d better hope they get/stay healthy and one of the DE’s develops, because I don’t see that defense doing it without stellar D Line play. Maybe McCoy is that guy. We will see.
On the upside, Lovie is tons better than Schiano. Glad you got rid of that prick.
It’s also a good way to get out of a job where you don’t think you have a chance to win.
If he had fired all his guys, he’d still probably be fired himself in another year or two, because it’s an old, mediocre roster with no QB. Get out now semi-voluntarily and you’re a better candidate for the next job than you would be after another 7-9 season.
You’re cherry-picking. His season rating was a respectable-for-a-rookie 83.9.
Better reasons to be skeptical would be that he was pretty unremarkable in college and that he has the build of a Polish radio mast, with mobility to match.