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This is why Pioli WON'T be hired

TheWalrus said:
If the job is "coveted" as Darlington and Daniel Jeremiah have said, then it shouldn't be too hard to do better. The reason we haven't be able to attract the top coaching talent/some FAs just left the building, but generally I think people like Miami and want to play/work here. Ross is an absentee owner with deep pockets, which also helps. Not to mention the league has a high opinion of Ryan Tannehill.
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Franchise QB? Check.
Job Security (Ireland got SIX years) ? Check.
No State income tax? Check.
Location? Check.

Plus 38 million dollars in cap space this year, and the ability to hire another coach if Philbin doesn't pan out. One of the best GM jobs available in recent years IMO
 
J. David Wannyheimer said:
You're an open-minded guy. I mentioned Jim Popp in Chambers' thread. Go read up on him and tell me what you think.

I think that if we can't get a DeCosta or other total coup hire from a top flight organization, that's the kind of move that would get me excited.
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I've heard his name floated before by some smart people. He has an NFL background and was a finalist for the Colts job last year. It's a big jump, though. I'd love for him to come in as a top level advisor focusing on small school guys and UDFAs. That'd be a no-brainer. But I'd absolutely be willing to interview the guy and genuinely consider him. It's not like CFL transfers who've excelled in that league haven't come over and excelled in the NFL before. Joe Theisman, Warren Moon, Doug Flutie and Cameron Wake all come to mind, as well as head coaches like Bud Grant and Marv Levy (who share a particularly inglorious distinction). Marc Trestman had a pretty good first year with Chicago.

I get the stigma. It reminds me of the documentary series the NFL Network did on the early days of the AFL a few years back. It's seen as more of a lesser league than it probably is, and if anything Popp's job is harder because he's building a team out of expansion parts every year. He could be one of those guys where he comes over and is a success and then everyone tries to do it, like how every short quarterback is going to be compared to Russell Wilson for the next 10 years. Fortune favors the first person to be bold much more than the first person to recognize it worked.

Eric DeCosta is a total non starter though. His wife has deep ties to the Baltimore area and does not want to move and DeCosta has basically been promised by Steve Biscotti that he'll be the GM when Ozzie Newsome steps down, which is looking more and more like it'll be sooner rather than later. People have been trying to hire him for years and can't even get an interview.
 
Pioli = Parcels....No Thanks.

I would go after Decastro, Loughlin, or Dimitrioff. Guys that have done a good job over the last 5 years.
 
utahphinsfan said:
What about someone from the Eagles? They always seem to have a well run franchise.
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Tom Gamble is the top name from there, though he left San Francisco to take a parallel job with the Eagles -- for whom he worked from 88-94 -- so it's unclear how inclined he'd be to leave. Here's a bio: http://media.philadelphiaeagles.com/media/146725/gamble-tom.pdf

And here's a video, where he's one of the members of the Eagles FO interviewed: http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/n...ersonnel/a9cd427f-30b4-49f8-a511-f0354be8b61a

Side note: how ****ing great would it be for the Dolphins to do one of these videos, say, three times a year, where you get to hear, you know, multiple members of the front office staff talk about the team, talk about their philosophy, right there out in the open, not afraid about letting a crumb or two hit the floor, and not just rely on canned bull**** for 10 questions?
 
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