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COMMENTARY: What's Next?

Mike Vick DOES NOT have immense potential. He is not the most gifted QB in NFL history(he is a gifted athlete). He is the BIGGEST COACH KILLER in NFL history.
I wouldn't dismiss Mora simply because of Vick's failures.
 
Outstanding work on this one. It sounds like we're mostly on the same page.

The only hole I see is the lack of an Al Saunders entry.
 
jlfin said:
Mike Vick DOES NOT have immense potential. He is not the most gifted QB in NFL history(he is a gifted athlete). He is the BIGGEST COACH KILLER in NFL history.
I wouldn't dismiss Mora simply because of Vick's failures.
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I think the comment he made about his alma mater did him in, not the Vick thing.
 
I thought it was a pretty good article.

I kinda liked Mooch prior to Detroit, but, he fell flat there.

I'm leaning towards Rivera more and more.
 
Just say no to Bill Parcels

If we are going to curcify Saban for jumping ship every year then we need to string old Bill up right besides him. In fact Bill has screwed over every team he has ever coached. He announced his retirement from the Giants only weeks after Belicheck accepted the Browns position (Think Bill junior may have had more success with the G-Men then the Brownies?)

Then he goes to the Pats only to retire again when things are just starting to look good. He compounds the insult to the Pats by going to their arch rival the Jets, even though he is still under contract. (The Jets facing a law suit finally agreed to give NE a first round pick). Then after 2 years he decides he is retiring again but this time he is leaving his long time assistant Bill Belicheck as their HC, right? Nope, Parcells decides he is still going to be in charge of football operations which scares off Bellicheck (2 NY teams could of had the coach most agree is the best in the NFL if it weren't for good old Parcells).

But wait were not done. He then agrees to coach Tampa on a handshake agreement only to back out of it after they fired Dungy, leaving the owners looking pretty darn stupid.

I can't wait to see what he does to Jerry Jones before he is finished.

BTW - Excellent article. I just seem to go on a rant when Parcells name is mentioned.
 
There are other names that have come up recently that were not in the article, the most prominent (so far) being Ron Turner, Tim Lewis and Chan Gailey. I'll comment here, briefly:

Lewis - It's not as though the Giants' defense has been anything special under Lewis. However, to Lewis's credit, they had steadily improved under his watch (until this year), and he ran a pretty good Steelers defense for four years prior. Like Rivera, he has no prior head coaching experience at any level, but has worked under Bill Cowher, so again, he at least has an idea of what a real head coach does. We could do worse.

Turner - I don't believe he's a serious candidate. The guy was an absolute disaster at the University of Illinois and the Bears offense has alternated between awful and barely respectable for most of his tenure. I've got to believe they're just talking to him to see how a real team works, and maybe to explore bringing him in as an OC/AHC if they hire Rivera as the head coach.

Gailey - This one seems like it's way out of left field, but maybe it shouldn't be. Gailey obviously has plenty of head coaching experience, and a well-earned reputation as a sharp offensive mind, though personally, I think that reputation should be tarnished a bit by his inability to make the greatest use of Calvin Johnson's talents. Gailey got a bum rap for his stint with the Cowboys, but they made the playoffs both years he was there, and that was clearly a team on the downswing anyway, thanks to Jerry Jones' meddling. And they really hit the skids after he left, with a trio of 5-11 seasons under Dave Campo. He's done a decent, but not great, job at Georgia Tech, with a 37-26 record, but they've lost a ton of big games (ACC championship this year, 0-5 vs. UGA, blew a big lead in this year's Gator Bowl vs. WVU). Still, the ceiling at Tech is probably limited, given that they'll always be #2 in that state to the Dawgs, and will always lose talent to other SEC schools as well, so Gailey probably shouldn't be judged too harshly for that. He's probably a better candidate than he's been given credit for.
 
Jimmy James said:
Outstanding work on this one. It sounds like we're mostly on the same page.

The only hole I see is the lack of an Al Saunders entry.
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Good point. I'll fix that now. I've yet to see anything connecting Saunders as a possible candidate, but I wouldn't be surprised to see his name surface.

I would be okay with Saunders. There's little question that the guy knows his way around an offense; he started out under Air Coryell, later under Vermeil and Martz in St. Louis, and then directed the Holmes/Johnson show in KC. Those are three of the most potent offenses of the last 25 years. He also has some limited head coaching experience: he was an interim coach when Coryell left the Chargers in 1986, and stayed on through 1988, totalling a 17-22 record. He's worked under a lot of pretty good coaches: Don Coryell, Marty Schottenheimer, Dick Vermeil, and Joe Gibbs, which I take as a good sign. And he's been around the pros enough to build a competent staff, and probably a pretty decent eye for talent. The one downside is that he's 60 in February, so he's probably not a long-term choice.
 
Norm Chow was mentioned as a possible candidate by several sources though I didn't see him in that article and he's certainly a better shot to get than Cowher.
 
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