2024 NFL Head Coaching Carousel

Didn’t know I was evaluating him.

If I do I’ll consult with the smartest smart smarts on the thread.

 

The Chargers have always seemed like a team in need of a kick in the butt. Someone who had total command of the locker room. You really have to go back to Bobby Ross or Coryell to find a similar coach. Schottenheimer had the profile, but was compromised by GM AJ Smith.

 

Barnwell sizes up the Chargers' Harbaugh hire: Why the fit makes sense, plus what's next for L.A.

While there was speculation Harbaugh might take over a team like the Falcons and draft J.J. McCarthy, his quarterback from Michigan, the decision to lead the Chargers surely brings that train of thought to a close. Herbert hasn't even started the new seasons on his five-year, $262.5 million extension, and the team wouldn't be able to handle the $108.5 million in dead money on a trade. Harbaugh won't be reuniting with his title-winning quarterback any time soon.

The other element that would likely be most valuable to Harbaugh is personnel control. He famously grew apart from general manager Trent Baalke during their shared tenure with the 49ers, leading to tension between the coach and both Baalke and the team's ownership. After the team lost three straight games to fall to 7-7 in 2014, the organization told Harbaugh he wouldn't be returning. He finished out the season, and while the 49ers characterized it as a parting of ways, Harbaugh believed he had been fired.

 

I've seen you post this multiple times and I wonder where you get that sense. I mean this is the guy who runs away from postgame interviews so they talk to the kids. The guy had his salary cut in half and just took it. Maybe I've just missed it

 

It stuns me that Kiper has him as a mid-first round pick.

 

Well when you get caught cheating red-handed, what else can you do?
He doesn’t like to talk to the media because the smarmy sumamabitch can’t look you straight in the eye.
He’s a perfect NFL Coach. Very little actual rules to follow.

 

Honestly, the biggest attribute most of these "first-round QBs" have going for them is their cap certainty. They won't break the bank for five years. Can they play? Who knows. It is odd though - always thought Kiper went with the "true draft grade" for setting his mocks - not the scarcity of QBs and their perpetual overvaluation.

 

Belichick-Falcons not being done a.) surprises me because it seems like a good fit and b.) has me wondering what Belichick knows that we don't. Or he's really content sitting out for a year.q

 

I imagine Tepper is willing to pay - its the other conditions coaches demanded that he wouldn't yield to. And Canales was ok with it.

 

Heard an interview with KJ Wright and FWIW he said he didn’t think that Belicheck would connect with the “Tik Tok” kids.