The Saints have been hiding him, like we did with Grier for 18 years.
And with 12 games of real HC experience. He’s in a good spot.
How is that worse than the 1-3 Philbin he replaced? Unless you’re looking at Philbin’s entire tenure in which case you’d think you grant Campbell some slack as he took over someone else’s crap heap and got the team to play as well as they could or better at times (like beating the snot out of Tenn and Houston 6 TDs by halftime style) instead of underachieving or playing like they don’t care. He didn’t get the offseason to plan but he sure showed command and control of that team pretty damn quickly. I hope he gets a HC gig and I hope he is successful. Seems like a great guy and one that the players respect.
Agreed. We saw a fire and fierocity in the team that had been lacking for ages. The way we rolled up on the Titans and Texans (combined scores of 82-39) over two games was so much fun to watch. Those teams had no idea what had hit them and it was clear that all of those Oklahoma drills and “remember why you chose to play this sport” motivational speeches worked - as both Tennessee and Houston had an expectation we were going to play a different way - Philbin style and boy did we maul them for it. Losing Wake to the Achilles in the Thursday night loss at Foxboro was the death knell for this team but at least he took out NE in the rematch at the end of the year to keep them from HF and likely another Lombardi. I was at the game when we beat Baltimore - it’s a trip I do w my Ravens friends every year since we started playing the Ravens every year it seems. Yeah even though Scaub played my buddies were stunned by the punch-counter punch mentality we were playing with going blow for blow w those guys in an old fashioned black and blue slugfest which we pulled out w a late FG. I recall Campbell’s presser afterwards when he said something to the effect of “that’s the kind of game I like”. I so wish we had that physical identity he brought. If not him, hopefully the next HC brings it.
