Running 2012 NFL coaches carousel thread

I keep forgetting about the Colts... You don't usually want to be the last team to make a hire, then you wind up with someone like Norv Turner.

I just can't imagine them handing over the No. 1 pick in the country to Jim Caldwell...

 

Wade Phillips, Mike Mularky, Dave Wannstedt, Marty Schottenheimer, Romeo Crennel -- this is the best these GM's can do? Really?

 

They're safe choices, and experienced. Teams don't want to get burned by assclowns like McDaniels and Lane Kiffin.

 

Yeah, because Kiffin burned the Raiders...

 

What did Kiffin do to earn a head coaching job?

 

If any of us were hired as a coach, and we brought in Norv Turner to run the offense and Wade Phillips to run the defense and Mike Singletary to give the fiery speeches, that would be a playoff team -- as long as the one of us who is hired is someone who has played Madden NFL and knows how to use his timeouts around the two-minute warning. Those guys, and various others, just seem amazingly deficient in the area of clock management and deciding when to go for two. I give Dick LeBeau a lot of credit, he realized quickly what he was and more importantly what he wasn't, and he built what I believe to be a HOF career staying within his limitations.

 

Quit Buffalo in the middle of his second year. Has to help him that Buffalo has remained an incessant shitstorm since his departure.

 

I can see that to a point - but you could actually end up hiring the next John Gruden, the next Mike Tomlin, the next Mike McCarthy, the next Andy Reid - I mean, if you have a good plan, a good organization and know what you are looking for, you should be able to find a guy who will have success.

How many more years do people in San Diego have to watch Norv to know that the best his teams will ever be is a hair above mediocre and they will flame out in the playoffs?

I know Steelers fans will say "well, if we had given up on Bill Cowher when things were tough, we'd have never got the super bowl in Detroit...."

A - You don't know that
B - Bill Cowher had been to a Super Bowl and taken the team to about four AFC title games and had won a shitload of division championships. So a couple of down years is not like Norv, who I believe has missed the playoffs more than he has made it in his career, or even Jeff Fisher, who outside of a few years produced a lot of mediocrity.

 

His dad had sex with his mom and produced him?

 

Or Noll, Cowher and Tomlin.

 

Lane Kiffin had the Raiders attempt a 76-yard field goal. That's not a young guy who lacks experience. That's a full-fledged moron.

 

That was a laugh riot and an awesome fuck-you to Al. It was not a strategic decision, though, and I wouldn't put a lot of stock in it.

Kiffin got the job at a time that nobody else was taking it. Sarkisian was a college assistant and turned down the chance to become an NFL head coach, that's how bad the gig was. If you'll recall, Lane's major offense in that relationship was not wanting to draft JaMarcus Russell. How'd that work out?