Running 2012 NFL coaches carousel thread

I think it's too early to call Harbaugh a broad success. Jim Haslett won a Coach of the Year Award in his first season and never got a team to the playoffs again.

 

You just knew that Schiano was looking to get the hell out of New Jersey as soon as he hung up the phone from turning down Miami.

He had to have been thinking...." I could have gone to South freaking Florida, and here I am......stuck in Piscataway....."

 

Nobody has mentioned Pete Carroll?

I know he was in the NFL before building a superpower at USC, and then went back to the NFL. He won a playoff game in Seattle with an old Matt Hasselbeck and now has the pick of the litter at QB with Tarvaris Jackson and Charlie Whitehurst [vomit]. He is a smart football mind.

Schiano seems like a desperate choice when you consider guys like Mike Zimmer (Cincy) and Perry Fewell (NYG) are still available. Some strange coaching hires the past few days.

 

I really think the NFL is changing (for the better, I don't know). You are seeing more GMs wearing the pants (like hockey), more one and out coaches and I think eventually more experimentation with offenses. Maybe we will see more college-type offenses in the NFL, less reliance on a "franchise-quarterback."
You just see a lot fewer "big personality" coaches in the game today and fewer coaches who develop a team's personality - instead they seem more like cogs in the machine.

 

I agree. Zimmer should have gotten one of these jobs. Reports are he was too blunt in Miami. What does that even mean? If you ask me about your operation in an interview, I'm going to give you a straight answer.

 

Buy in? Buy in to what? The program is a farce.

The guy was at Rutgers for 12 years and never managed to win even a share of the shitty Big East title.

He had Ray Rice one year and won 11 games.

His string of five bowl games is built on some of the worst and most embarrassingly weak non-conference schedules imaginable and his bowl wins are a joke.

I think he was 0-for against West Virginia and outside of the win over Louisville a few years ago when Louisville was in the top five, you'd be hard pressed to find many other quality wins over ranked teams.

But he used cute little phrases like "chopping wood" so my bad, this is an excellent hire..... :

 

I also see the word "retirement" means as much for coaches as players, considering Bruce Arians "retired" about a week ago and has just been named the Colts offensive coordinator....

 

I guess getting to ride the coattails of Andrew Luck is an inducement to come out of retirement.

 

If Manning is cut where will he land?

 

Given that retirement was really a euphemism for being forced out of the job, it's really not a surprise.

 

I think it will be tough for him to find a job seeing as there are so few teams in need of a quality quarterback.....