The Coaching Change Thread

[Monomach]

Originally Posted by HeavyLeggedWaistBender

Can any Texans fans give a run down of Rick Dennison?

He's interviewing Friday for Chicago. Obviously that offense has a lot of Kubiak in it but Kubiak has gone to bat for him saying he's absolutely ready for a HC gig. He sounds like the most promising candidate on our humungous list since he's been calling plays for more than one year. And for a damn good offense at that.

He knows the Shanahan offense, but Dennison's never called plays. Kubiak calls them in Houston. When Dennison was OC in Denver, Bates called them.

He does know the offense, he runs Houston's offensive practices, and he's a zone blocking guy who spent the longest portion of his coaching career coaching O line.

Cutler seems to like him. I'm developing a man crush on him. I see the not calling plays thing to be a bonus. He can install the same offense Cutler had in Denver, but leave the playcalling to Bates and focus on coaching the entire team when game time comes.

[SickwithIt1010]

Being reported that the Eagles have interviewed ND coach Brian Kelly. He is currently out of the country but they are expected to revisit talks.

[G Mobile]

Originally Posted by SickwithIt1010

Being reported that the Eagles have interviewed ND coach Brian Kelly. He is currently out of the country but they are expected to revisit talks.

God I hope this happens. It would be such a slide for ND in the past couple weeks.

[SickwithIt1010]

I think his philosophy football wise would work. Hes proven he can turn programs around, but he reminds me of Coughlan a little in the sense that hes a hard ass so I'm curious to how players would respond to him.

Edit: hes a good coach so I would like seein him in Philly, and at the same time I get to see ND go ape ****.

[Scotty D]

What a turn around for the ND program since last week if Kelly leaves and that demolishing on Monday night.

[brat316]

Originally Posted by SickwithIt1010

I think his philosophy football wise would work. Hes proven he can turn programs around, but he reminds me of Coughlan a little in the sense that hes a hard ass so I'm curious to how players would respond to him.

Edit: hes a good coach so I would like seein him in Philly, and at the same time I get to see ND go ape ****.

Eagles young team needs hardass but know when to turn it off.

[SickwithIt1010]

Originally Posted by bhaarat316

Eagles young team needs hardass but know when to turn it off.

I see you. I can agree with that for sure, Andy should have been harder on those guys.

[JPF]

Originally Posted by killxswitch

Panthers fans can correct me on this if I'm wrong, but my impression was that Chud tried to scale back the option aspects of the offense to protect Cam, and toward the end of the season added them back in (which is consequently when he started playing well again).

Chud ran the option way too much the first half of the year (especially the read option), to the point it was the basis of the teams ground game. The offense improved the second half of the season as he ran it less and went to a more traditional running game with the option aspects mixed in occasionally. The second half of the year, he also used Tolbert more how he was used in San Diego.

[vidae]

Sounds like Doug Pederson is going to be the OC for the Chiefs. Apparently he is highly respected in league circles? All I know is he was the QB coach for the Eagles.

[bearsfan_51]

Originally Posted by vidae

Sounds like Doug Pederson is going to be the OC for the Chiefs. Apparently he is highly respected in league circles? All I know is he was the QB coach for the Eagles.

He held Brett Favre's clipboard for much of his career and made sure that his Miller Lights were cold.

[49ersfan_87]

Seems like Lovie Smith hasn't gotten that much interest yet...little surprised. Wonder if he'll take a DC role.

[SickwithIt1010]

Originally Posted by 49ersfan_87

Seems like Lovie Smith hasn't gotten that much interest yet...little surprised. Wonder if he'll take a DC role.

I doubt it. He didn't deserve to get fire, let alone get demoted to being a DC somewhere. If I had to guess he will sit out a year.

[Monomach]

Now we're all finding out that other GMs see the same flaws in Lovie that Phil Emery does.

In other ex-Bears news...

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...r-g-m-opening/

ONLY THE JETS, PEOPLE. ONLY THE JETS.

I will piss myself laughing if they hire him.

[bearsfan_51]

Psh....Jerry Angelo was a fine GM. To build a team that's been successful as ours has been in the last ten years? The Jets wish they had that.

[Monomach]

Originally Posted by bearsfan_51

Psh....Jerry Angelo was a fine GM. To build a team that's been successful as ours has been in the last ten years? The Jets wish they had that.

They're skipping that important step where they let Dick Jauron draft them a Charles Tillman, Lance Briggs, Alex Brown. Brian Urlacher, & Mike Brown before turning personnel control over to Jerry.

Someone should warn them.

[bearsfan_51]

Originally Posted by Monomach

They're skipping that important step where they let Dick Jauron draft them a Charles Tillman, Lance Briggs, Alex Brown. Brian Urlacher, & Mike Brown before turning personnel control over to Jerry.

Someone should warn them.

.......jesus Monomach.

Angelo drafted Tillman, Briggs, and Alex Brown. He took over a team that had three good players (Urlacher, M. Brown, Kruetz) and built them into a consistent winner.

[Giantsfan1080]

Jags fire Mularkey per Twitter.

[BeerBaron]

Originally Posted by Giantsfan1080

Jags fire Mularkey per Twitter.

Not surprising. There was a rumor that one current head coach tried to secure his release last week to interview with the Bears, and my guess was Mularkey. I obviously don't want him for that job, but it made sense.

[SuperPacker]

Why wouldn't they just fire him straight away? Wasn't he doing interviews saying how he was glad he got given another year and talking about how much he loves coaching, lol. That's just embarrassing now.

[bigbluedefense]

Originally Posted by bearsfan_51

Psh....Jerry Angelo was a fine GM. To build a team that's been successful as ours has been in the last ten years? The Jets wish they had that.

Jerry Angelo was a good defensive GM. But he couldn't find a quarterback if he got lost in Archie Manning's house.

Guess what the Jets need?

[TheFinisher]

Ed Werder on ESPNDallas this morning saying Monte Kiffin is the favorite to become the new DC of the Cowboys.

[bigbluedefense]

That's a major philosophical change for Dallas.

They have the linebackers for it though. They need another pass rusher though.

[TheFinisher]

Originally Posted by bigbluedefense

That's a major philosophical change for Dallas.

They have the linebackers for it though. They need another pass rusher though.

Not sure how our secondary fits either. Our safeties suck to begin with, but the Tampa 2 put even more stress on them... And we just spend big last offseason on press man corners, kind of takes away what they're good at... But I guess you can still press at the line.

*shrug*

Not really sure how I feel about it.

[bigbluedefense]

Originally Posted by TheFinisher

Not sure how our secondary fits either. Our safeties suck to begin with, but the Tampa 2 put even more stress on them... And we just spend big last offseason on press man corners, kind of takes away what they're good at.

Carr and Clairborne can adjust. Carr ran a lot of Tampa in KC, and Clairborne was known more for being an off the ball defender coming out of college.

Sensy will be fine. The SS in a Tampa 2 needs to be more of a run support guy anyway. And your coverage in the middle of the field will be more on your linebackers.

But you'll need a FS and a DE. Those are 2 big needs.

[Brown Leader]

Probably better suits both Barry Church and FS Sensabaugh.