2024 NFL Head Coaching Carousel

Look, we’ve all played some sport right? Did you ever think you got better sitting and watching? You got better by playing, repetition is what drives improvement in sports, in frankly all aspects of life. Yes you can learn by watching but that’s far outweighed by doing. The reason those who sat have been good is not by the method, but by the coaching (great BTW) they received. Those greats were going to be good whether they sat or whether they played immediately.

 

is it the sitting and watching - or being spared poor offensive line play. Usually what happens in these situations is the placeholder QB is getting pummeled and the team realizes they need to upgrade the OL - and the QB of the future is better protected when they become the starter.

 

I'm sure the NFL is breathing a sigh of relief this off-season. Rivera was the only coach of color dismissed and the first two hires are black - rather than seeing a hiring season where multiple black coaches are let go and teams hire white coach after white coach. Also worth noting - all four of the (non-interim) black coaches in the league made the playoffs and two of them advanced to the divisional round.

 

Offensive lines are everything, duh allowing a future Hall of Fame lineman in Faneca to declare he’s not too excited to spend his quickly vanishing Super Bowl window blocking for some snot-nosed kid in Big Ben.

It worked out well for both of them and they soon won a ring and Ben won another when Faneca was gone. Doesnt usually work out that well, but that’s what you’re aiming for with a team that has a win-now mentality with a great defense, a great offensive line, and a great running game, and just needs the future franchise QB to grow into that role and not suck now.

 

Almost all HOF quarterbacks are playing regularly by their second season.

The "mentoring" crap hardly ever works. If it did, history would be replete with examples of HOF QBs mentoring young phenoms who follow in their footsteps and become All-Pros themselves. This hardly ever happens.

If the incumbent/seasoned veteran QB is good enough that you want the young kid learning anything from him, he still wants to play.

The few high-profile "exceptions that prove the rule" really don't: ie, Montana/Young and Favre/Rodgers.

 

https://www.si.com/nfl/falcons/news...w-atlanta-falcons-coach-report-dallas-cowboys

 

Introductory news conference set for 2:32 p.m.?

 

It helps that the Texans seemed to finally get it right with Ryans.

 

I'd never seen an NFL team seem to be so screwed up like the Texans were when Easterby was running amok.

 

Caserio might’ve saved his job with Stroud, but it also sounds like Easterby might’ve wielded more power with the owner when he was around. Just seems like a messy situation there.

 

It’s the Falcons. That’s implicit.

 

My take on it was the owner wanted to clear the organization out of people who worked for his dad - particularly the people who mocked him behind his back - and he brought in Easterby to do the dirty work. Having it portrayed that Cal was "under the sway" of his prayer partner Easterby was only a bonus.