2014-15 NFL Coaching Carousel Thread

Lots of eyebrows raised at Jed's opening statement that Tomsula brings "class and integrity" to the 49ers.

Snot-nosed punk, Jed. This looks a lot like the super smooth transition from Mariucci to Erickson.

 

Yeah, this is going to be really bad.

 

John Fox, Bears reportedly reach agreement | NFL | Sporting News

 

Great hire.

 

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One complication in putting together a #49ers staff is the belief around the NFL that GM Trent Baalke is running the show, not the coach.

 

Nice!

A division with McCarthy-Fox-Caldwell-Zimmer doesn't quite reach the "4th quarter clock management cluelessness" of the Ultimate NFC North Crew: Sherman-Tice-Mariucci-Lovie but it's getting there.

 

It's what I feared all along. That the bulk of the issues between Baalke and Harbaugh was that the coach was getting the bulk of the credit for a turnaround.

There's also a rumor out there that Gase either turned down the job or took his name out of consideration. I know he's also up for the Broncos job, but I don't think it's a given that he's getting it and when coaches with no HC experience start turning down jobs, you've become the Raiders.

 

Callahan could be named Skins OL coach "pretty quickly," according to JLC. Would be a good hire. If they can land Fagio and that other 49ers assistant, hoo boy.

 

I think we're at a point where the QB matters so much that the head coach almost becomes an accessory.

John Fox had a great record at Denver. Yet having PFM as his QB (like McCarthy with Rodgers, Carroll with Wilson to an extent) makes him like a blackjack player who gets to start every hand with a 10 or an Ace. You're going to win a lot of those hands as long as you don't screw it up.

Contrast that with a guy like Mike Zimmer in Minnesota, who was dealt a "4" or a "5" pretty much every Sunday and he probably won more hands than he should this year.

Also why I'm puzzled that so many defensive coordinators are getting head coaching jobs in this era where QBs who can win shootouts in the regular season are why coaches get to the playoffs.

 

Fox won with Delhomme and Tebow. Has that been mentioned before?

 

DCs getting jobs might have something to do with a few Super Bowl results in recent memory.

 

Listening to some sports talk on the radio while driving last night, a discussion came up about which great coaches you would start a franchise with over which great QBs. More often than not, it seemed, the answer was to take the great QB over the great head coach. The individual choices were a bit boring (would you rather have Brady or Belichick? Montana or Walsh?), but I thought the discussion of QBs being more important than coaches was interesting.