2014-15 NFL Coaching Carousel Thread

Right, but he seems to listening to people more than he did in the past. They've done pretty well in the draft in recent years. They've made good assistant hires. Someone there is making pretty good decisions.

It will be interesting if Snyder ever follows suit.

 

You are absolutely correct that it's a very good sign for the organization that Jerry allowed himself to be overruled on a matter he obviously had a strong opinion about.

Wonder if he's still agonizing over his team "laying up" in the draft.

 

Snyder doesn't even know as much about football as Jones does -- as scary as that sounds -- but there's no telling a guy like that what he doesn't know.

At least Jones has Super Bowls. He's won with four different coaches.

Snyder hasn't even been able to sustain success with guys like Schottenheimer, Gibbs and Shanahan.

His meddling goes beyond vastly overpaying for has-beens and screwing up other "football decisions." He still doesn't understand that the manipulations you can employ in the business world don't work in pro football. He screws up organizational stability by getting too close to certain players, undermining his coaches and generally doing all the things that prevent you from winning.

If the new GM really is a solid football guy, Snyder will drive him bananas and he'll leave in 2-3 years. That's how it happens in DC.

 

I think the fact that Snyder didn't fire Gruden might be a sign he's getting better. Especially if he dumps RG3 during the off-season.

This move is a positive. Whether Snyder fucks it up as he has so many others remains to be seen.

 

Not that the 49ers' off-season isn't going spectacularly already, but Little Rich Boy is being sued for age discrimination by two employees -- age 59 and 56 -- who say they were let go because the company wanted to be younger and more techie to coincide with the move to Silicon Valley.

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_27268842/san-francisco-49ers-ceo-jed-york-sued-age

Without judging the case, this does sound a lot like what happens all around the area and especially like the 49ers' current culture. But I don't think these guys would have a case even if they were 100 percent. As Jim Harbaugh would say, you work at the pleasure of the owner.

 

Employment law says that's not true, LTL. I still remember the poor Herald woman twentysomething reporter who was let go during the big 2005 purge specifically to block age discrimination suits from older employees like, oh, me.

 

Maybe. Of course I hope they win the case. But there have been all sorts of cases out here against the Googles and such. The company just says it isn't a "cultural fit" (in Google's case it meant he didn't like to snowboard).

 

"Charlie don't snowboard" can get you fired?

 

I rule in favor of the former employees. Jed should have to sell the team.

 

Um, no you do not serve at the absolute pleasure of the owner; the owner does not get to discriminate against those over 40 on the basis of age under California (and Federal) law. Based on the news report I read, there's something to their claims; not saying its a winner but enough to make you wonder.

 

Well, then the 49ers should have fired a few cheerleaders at the same time.

 

OK, Kyle Shanahan tried for a year to work for someone other than his dad or someone indebted to his dad. That sucked!

http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2015/01/kyle_shanahan_would_consider_e.html