All these deals scream: THERE'S NO ONE ELSE TO HIRE.
Seattle hired Pete Carroll. They took a gamble with him because the cupboard seems to be bare, in terms of head coaches.
Norval and Bum's Son have proven time and time again to not be able to lead good-to-great teams to playoff wins. Jerry Jones must like how he can manipulate Wade. Jerry has never been shy about spending money foolishly.
Norv finished with a great regular season so I'm not surprised San Diego quickly brought him back. Another fizzle in the playoffs will certainly send him packing.
Childress saved himself this year, but what about next year? What happens when Favre actually retires? Chili goes back to being a lowly head-coach, with a brutally gruff voice, bald dome and terrible beard, whom no one wants to listen to. The Vikings have to keep him for three years or pay him to go away.
Gailey brings a resume to Buffalo that includes: Ineffective Cowboys coach - 2 years - 0 playoff wins. Middle of the road ACC coach - 6 years. Fired by the Chiefs after one year. It's not a hire that inspires confidence in Buffalo, nor should it.
Gailey is a strange hire but so was the 70-year-old geezer they just hired as GM, Buddy Nix.
The Bears stayed the course and kept Lovie Smith but fired every other coach they had. That's a money-saving play by the Chicago front office.
There just doesn't seem to be anybody out there. Cowher and Gruden sitting in a studio or broadcast booth doesn't help any of these teams either.
Leslie Frazier, Minnesota's defensive coordinator, seems to be getting a lot of interviews the last couple of years. It seems he's just there to satisfy the Rooney Rule. And because he's in the same position Mike Tomlin was before Tomlin won a Super Bowl.
Brian Billick wants to coach. I thought the Bills might go there, but Nix clearly made up his mind that Gailey is the guy.
BONUS: College Classes Cancelled
- Simpson College cancelled classes yesterday for the second time in just over a month. During five years at Northern Iowa I don't recall one day being cancelled. According to this, it must be the worst winter in recent memory. Or Simpson goes too easy on students during bad winter weather. The snow storm in December was epic and everything was covered in ice yesterday, but with the amount of dough handed over for tuition I want to attend every class on the schedule.
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Looking at the carousel that is the NFL coaching situation, don’t you think that the Chiefs are the teams that has actually help themselves out. I don’t think we know what Haley has to offer after one year with a bad team, but at least they went out and got a couple of coordinators that have proven themselves in the NFL. Wies, or should I call him Golden Corals worst nightmare, set the Notre Dame program back a few years because he thought his “swagger” would come in and do the job. In reality Wies sucked as a coach, but you can’t help and look at the solid offense he put out year after year. Can we look at Charlie as a good coordinator and not a great head coach? Why not, until he proves that Brady was actually the reason New England was winning. Look at Romeo and the same thing applies to him as Weis. Maybe these two are not head coaches in and league, but maybe the will just go down as great coordinators. Thoughts?
ReplyDeleteA part of the reason, in my opinion, for there being zero available (good) coaches out there is that they all get fired after their first or second year and their is nowhere for them to go. Who in their right mind would hire a man who led a team to a 5-11 record in the previous season. The fans would be scratching their beer filled heads and the board members would fire the guy who hired him. I'm not sure if any of that makes sense, but it all makes sense in my head.
ReplyDeleteBy the way Zach, you are right we never had one day of class cancelled at UNI. I do recall, however, there being a late start one morning during the winter of my sophomore or junior year (one of the years I lived at Hillcrest Park Apartments at 9614 University Avenue). Now if you'll excuse me, I have a carnitas burrito on its way and I will need a whole bottle of chipotlaway when I am finished.