The_Admiral Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Well, Gregg Williams is gone, if he was ever there in the first place. ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Well, Gregg Williams is gone, if he was ever there in the first place.As is his son-the linebackers coach and left head of my avatar. Maybe we'll say goodbye to the entire knight and get a formal replacement though.And don't forget about Pat Shurmer, rams.Contempt mixed with baffled bewilderment that Cleveland effectively promoted him after two seasons when most of us were begging for his termination. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CS85 Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Looks like Andy Reid might just be the Chiefs next coach. He's bailed on Arizona's scheduled interview. Quote "You are nothing more than a small cancer on this message board. You are not entertaining, you are a complete joke." twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSky Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 I don't get these teams slobbering over Andy Reid. He's the Bobby Cox of the NFL...perennially close, but never a cigar. (OK, one cigar for Bobby but you get my point.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 I don't get these teams slobbering over Andy Reid. He's the Bobby Cox of the NFL...perennially close, but never a cigar. (OK, one cigar for Bobby but you get my point.)When 9-7 teams as well as #6 seeds get to and win the Super Bowl, owners will take a "risk" on a coach who was in the playoffs in nine out of his 14 seasons at his previous position. Let's say if Dungy was open for a return, there would be the same clamor and it took him eight playoff seasons for him to reach/win the Super Bowl with a career playoff record of 9-10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDR Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 I don't get these teams slobbering over Andy Reid. He's the Bobby Cox of the NFL...perennially close, but never a cigar. (OK, one cigar for Bobby but you get my point.)Because perennially good-but-not-great is better than perennially mediocre-and-often-terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigEd76 Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Arizona received permission from the Steelers to talk to Todd Haley about coming back as head coach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSky Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 I don't get these teams slobbering over Andy Reid. He's the Bobby Cox of the NFL...perennially close, but never a cigar. (OK, one cigar for Bobby but you get my point.)Because perennially good-but-not-great is better than perennially mediocre-and-often-terrible.Why not take a shot at building a championship caliber team? I know picking a SB-winning coach is hit and miss but I'd rather the team I'm a fan of at least go for it. I'm the first to admit that the first word out of my mouth when I heard the Saints hired Sean Payton was, "Who?" I'd never heard of him. The safe pick would've been another retread but Benson gets credit for going with an up-and-comer.And his choice worked out ok. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEW.ERA Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Arizona received permission from the Steelers to talk to Todd Haley about coming back as head coachWhere's that WUT? Pear. JETS|PACK|JAYS|NUFC|BAMA|BOMBERS|RAPS|ORANJE| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninersdd Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Looks like Andy Reid might just be the Chiefs next coach. He's bailed on Arizona's scheduled interview.So he's basically a white Romeo Crennel? BEAR DOWN ARIZONA!2013/14 Tanks Picks Champion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbadefense1990 Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 I don't get these teams slobbering over Andy Reid. He's the Bobby Cox of the NFL...perennially close, but never a cigar. (OK, one cigar for Bobby but you get my point.)How's about the Jerry Sloan or the Rick Adelman of the NFL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 I don't get these teams slobbering over Andy Reid. He's the Bobby Cox of the NFL...perennially close, but never a cigar. (OK, one cigar for Bobby but you get my point.)Because perennially good-but-not-great is better than perennially mediocre-and-often-terrible.Why not take a shot at building a championship caliber team? I know picking a SB-winning coach is hit and miss but I'd rather the team I'm a fan of at least go for it. I'm the first to admit that the first word out of my mouth when I heard the Saints hired Sean Payton was, "Who?" I'd never heard of him. The safe pick would've been another retread but Benson gets credit for going with an up-and-comer.And his choice worked out ok. ;-)And Payton hire coincided with Drew Brees failing the Dolphins physical too.As for this year's current openings (now at seven), there really are not seven viable "new hires" from either the collegiate level or NFL assistants. Specifically, there are not seven offense-minded candidates. Clements (GB),McCoy (DEN), Brian Kelly, and Chip Kelly are the only four new names from the offensive side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigEd76 Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 The Reid deal isn't done yet. He interviewing with the Chargers and Cardinals too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramerica Industries Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Arizona received permission from the Steelers to talk to Todd Haley about coming back as head coachWhere's that WUT? Pear.This is probably a rhetorical question, but I've never had the chance to post that picture: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmoehrin Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 The Reid deal isn't done yet. He interviewing with the Chargers and Cardinals tooI would be surprised if he did.You don't allow a guy like Andy Reid to interview with other teams after you've made him an offer. If he took an interview with Arizona I would pull the offer and start looking at other candidates. I'm not going to put myself in a situation where Andy Reid can use my offer as leverage to get a better deal from either me or another team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 I don't get these teams slobbering over Andy Reid. He's the Bobby Cox of the NFL...perennially close, but never a cigar. (OK, one cigar for Bobby but you get my point.)Because perennially good-but-not-great is better than perennially mediocre-and-often-terrible.Why not take a shot at building a championship caliber team? I know picking a SB-winning coach is hit and miss but I'd rather the team I'm a fan of at least go for it. I'm the first to admit that the first word out of my mouth when I heard the Saints hired Sean Payton was, "Who?" I'd never heard of him. The safe pick would've been another retread but Benson gets credit for going with an up-and-comer.And his choice worked out ok. ;-)They may not have pulled through in the postseason crap shoot, but early-2000s Philadelphia was a championship caliber organization. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lights Out Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 The Reid deal isn't done yet. He interviewing with the Chargers and Cardinals tooHe cancelled those interviews.BTW, the Chargers want to interview Lovie Smith. I know he just got ran out on a rail in Chicago, but was he really that bad? POTD: 2/4/12 3/4/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 The Reid deal isn't done yet. He interviewing with the Chargers and Cardinals tooHe cancelled those interviews.BTW, the Chargers want to interview Lovie Smith. I know he just got ran out on a rail in Chicago, but was he really that bad?Tactically, his bread and butter is a long-past-due defensive scheme that fails without elite specialists at key positions. Interpersonally speaking, his game is to play surrogate daddy and allocate blame to members of the media rather than his players. Both aspects of his coaching are based on the mistaken idea that he is both smarter and holier than thou. You could argue "well, his teams are never really bad," but I'd argue that missing the playoffs as much as he did with Brian Urlacher, Lance Briggs, Charles Tillman, Julius Peppers, and Devin Hester is, in fact, pretty bad, and there's no telling how much the bottom could drop out without multiple Hall of Famers on defense/special teams, which I don't think the Chargers have. He doesn't adapt in games and hasn't adapted over the course of his career, even when it's been shown that you can slice and dice the Tampa 2 by just going slant-slant-slant-slant-slant. He went through loads of coordinators on each side over nine years, with none of them leaving because they were poached for other teams' head coaching jobs; in fact, three of the last four coordinators were failed head coaches. There will be no team-of-rivals dynamic, because Ron Rivera was fired for not kissing Lovie's ass and replaced with the utterly incompetent Bob Babich.I wouldn't recommend him. ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmoehrin Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 I just find it surprising the Chargers would be talking to Lovie Smith just because of how drastic of a departure it would be philosophy wise from what Norv Turner was doing.I could see the rational in it if the Chargers were just totally inept on the defensive side of the ball or had the strenghs to cover Lovie Smith's weaknesses, but neither is the case with the Chargers. They have a decent defense in place, and this is not a team that is set up to play ground and pound football. It would take them at least two years to turn over the roster to get a Lovie Smith style team.Unless the attitude is blow it all up and start from scratch which I don't think they need or should do, it would be a very strange hire for them in my opinion.My guess is Lovie will go to Buffalo which does have a roster in place that fits what Lovie Smith is trying to do on both sides of the ball with the exception of a quarterback and San Diego will probably wind up hiring an offensive minded head coach. Chip Kelly, Bruce Arians, Pete Carmichael I think would be much better fits for San Diego, as would potentially Mike Tice or even Mike Sherman. Those would be the names I would want to talk to if I were San Diego and in that order of preference as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illwauk Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Lovie's problem in Chicago was that he changed offensive coordinators more often than some guys change their skivvies, and his choices usually didn't make a lick of sense. Mike Tice lost his last coaching job because of his inability to handle a petulant, diva QB, so why the hell would you hire him to work with Jay Cutler?Also, losing the Conference Championship to the hated Packers in Chicago, then not beating them for another two years is a pretty good way to piss off the Bears' faithful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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