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I've seen some arguments for the Philly guy. A lot of tape watchers saying their WR are being schemed open well and any issues are more about Hurts accuracy, but they felt he maximizes passing scheme. Yeah, I'm sure he's good at what he does. My concerns with him are more of the unknown. IDK how good he is because Philly's passing offense is a mess because of the QB and bad WR drafting. And with no playcalling, I'd rather go for a guy that has worked closely with Shanahan, McVay, LaFleur or has demonstrated QB success like Pep.

Man, I'd love any of the names I'm hearing for OC, except that Philly dude. Getsy or Pep would be cool with me.

His brother, Mike, is KC's football operations guy. He's had a few GM interviews in the past I believe. So has ties to obviously both Eberflus and Poles.

I didn't know Pittsburgh had a USFL team now or ever. If they actually do play games, I may check one out just because it's football. Edit: nevermind, all games will be played in 1 location (Birmingham) but just have the historic team names.

Shane Day makes a LOT of sense. Forgot about him in my list yesterday of Shanahan tree candidates. Does have a little playcalling experience. Called games for 3 games at UConn a few years ago and it was the best 3-game offensive stretch in school history. Why did he go from 49ers QB coach to Chargers QB coach? Lateral move on the surface? Was he passed over for OC when McDaniel took the job? I'm guessing it was a McVay recommendation. Obviously Staley was McVay's DC. Day doesn't really have any ties to Chargers OC, Lombardi. But Day has worked more closely with McVay than he did with Shanahan. Day/Shanahan didn't overlap at Washington, while Day/McVay did. I think for Day being #2 offensively in LA was more beneficial than being #3 in SF.

You gotta remember the Broncos and Packers had talks last offseason. The Broncos already have a package together that the Packers would accept for Rodgers (per Ben Allbright). I think if Rodgers wanted to leave last year, he'd probably be in Denver already. I think they 100% are trying to lure Rodgers and get him to hop on the other side of that fence he was supposedly on all last offseason. I honestly think it's more likely to happen than not at this point. Green Bay just doesn't have the money. They'd have to cut several players, restructure Rodgers and Bahktiari among others, just to bring Adams back. And they still couldn't afford to replace anyone they cut and all their other WRs are FAs except Amari Rodgers, who Packers fans think should have been cut this year, the same year he was drafted.

Shane Day makes a LOT of sense. Forgot about him in my list yesterday of Shanahan tree candidates. Does have a little playcalling experience. Called games for 3 games at UConn a few years ago and it was the best 3-game offensive stretch in school history.

It's 3 of them, he's already doing way too much.

I mean technically, it is Mike's tree. Kubiak has a kid coaching one of these teams as well. I think something on defense for the Packers? Vikings OC He has 3. Klint is Vikings OC (or was?), Klay is the one I was thinking of he's a D assistant in SF. Klein is something for Denver or Dallas.

I mean technically, it is Mike's tree. Kubiak has a kid coaching one of these teams as well. I think something on defense for the Packers?

Some of the names here are: Mike McDaniel- I believe had a 2nd interview w/ the Jags. May not take an OC job with already getting a ton of interest w/o calling plays Luke Getsy- with Hackett getting the job in Denver, Getsy is likely either going with him or becoming OC in Green Bay I would assume Rich Scangarello- 49ers QB coach, fired by Fangio after 1 year as OC in Denver in 2019 Bobby Slowick- been an offensive and defensive asst in SF for several years now, interesting but obviously 0 play calling Kevin O'Connell- big fan of his coaching future, OC in LA, doesn't call plays Wes Phillips- pass game coordinator/TE coach, son of Wade, again 0 play calling experience If I'm reading correctly, none of these guys have called plays except for a guy that's very likely not coming here? Is experience calling plays overrated? Yes.

Some of the names here are: Mike McDaniel- I believe had a 2nd interview w/ the Jags. May not take an OC job with already getting a ton of interest w/o calling plays Luke Getsy- with Hackett getting the job in Denver, Getsy is likely either going with him or becoming OC in Green Bay I would assume Rich Scangarello- 49ers QB coach, fired by Fangio after 1 year as OC in Denver in 2019 Bobby Slowick- been an offensive and defensive asst in SF for several years now, interesting but obviously 0 play calling Kevin O'Connell- big fan of his coaching future, OC in LA, doesn't call plays Wes Phillips- pass game coordinator/TE coach, son of Wade, again 0 play calling experience

Eberflus was one of my top 5 in this process. I don't know a whole lot about him, but much like has been said about Poles, I think he's a guy that has a lot of support around the NFL and there's confidence that he can lead a team. Really surprised the Bears didn't go with experience at either GM/HC spot. I hope they go experience at OC.

Bears hire a guy named Matt as Head coach and a guy named Ryan as GM for the 2nd time in a row. And the GM was actually college roommates with.....MATT RYAN!

Eberflus it is

Yeah and KC just completely rebuilt their OL this past offseason.

My interpretation is George has been 100% honest and transparent about this stuff. I really don't think a hot candidate would agree to a GM job if it came with the caveat that he had to hire an elder statesmen as HC. I think it's entirely possible that Poles likes Caldwell, and don't believe George is forcing him, or any other coach, on him. Yeah, especially when it sounds like he had the Vikings job on the table as well. Would have just gone where he wasn't forced on a HC, unless he really hates Kirk Cousins.....which who would blame him?

Bills clearly collapsed allowing a score in 13 seconds. There has never been a more "back and forth" game in NFL history. YOu could just as well say the Chiefs collapsed by letting the Bills score a TD in a minute. Or that the Bills "collapsed" by letting Hill score a 70 yard TD with less than 2 minutes remaining. But more to the point, I don't give a FLYING horsefeathers HOW they got to overtime. Make overtime not be a luck-sack let down. Obviously, you can't have different rules depending on how it gets to OT. Just saying that "just win the game" is more than a playground argument considering the Bills knew the likely consequences of allowing a FG in 13 seconds and losing the coin toss. If 49ers/Packers went to OT then "just win the game" would be more playground-ish. Semantics, I know.

I mean, the Bills legit had no business even being in overtime though, so this situation it makes sense somewhat. But in a game that's truly back and forth where it doesn't involve 1 team completely collapsing to get the game to OT, then "just win the game" doesn't mean as much. ...this confuses me. Which type of game was Chiefs-Bills? Bills clearly collapsed allowing a score in 13 seconds.

I think its just the way McCaskey runs the entire team, its a family business so he personally picks Poles up. It can be seen as rubish, but honestly I really dont mind Geo doing it. Welcome to Chicago, Ryan I have a hard time imagining he's picked up each one of these guys, considering some were same day. I assumed a lot of these were zoom interviews, at least for the first round, and that in person things were for the 2nd round. Yeah, all 1st round interviews were via Zoom. 2nd round in person. Is Poles the first round 2? IDK if Eberflus went his 2nd time or not, or if they are waiting to do in person until they get a GM.

If this was a Bills board maybe you'd have a point. The rule objectively sucks and should be changed. "Win instead of deal with overtime" is some infintile playground argument non-sense. I mean, the Bills legit had no business even being in overtime though, so this situation it makes sense somewhat. But in a game that's truly back and forth where it doesn't involve 1 team completely collapsing to get the game to OT, then "just win the game" doesn't mean as much.

Again, regular-season results, with a much bigger sample size, are that the coin-flip winner wins exactly half the time. Still don't like it and would support a reasonable change. I like the idea of both teams having both units on the field at least once. I completely missed the word "least" and was intrigued by both offenses on the field at the same time.

Quinn's a hard pass for me, thus far, I've got Harbaugh, Quinn and Frazier as hard passes, my top three, in no particular order - Daboll, Flores, Leftwich - just please no re-treads with defensive backgrounds. My two generic archetypes of preferred coaching candidates are offensive wunderkind (Sean Payton/McVay) and highly respected retread who bombed in his first gig (Pete Carrol, Bill Belichik). Although they didn't bomb, Andy Reid and Tony Dungy also fit this type. Quinn obviously fits the latter, but I'm not enthusiastic. There's really nothing wrong with re-treads defensive coaches, if they can get a good staff together. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt to start. Same with Flores. Harbaugh is more like a Reid and Dungy, who had success but not enough success. I'd be fine with him. Daboll and Leftwich are more exciting shoot the moon candidates and I'd be happy with either. To be fair, the killer staff was mostly gone in Atlanta by 2018. As for Quinn himself, he's not quite as hard a pass as Frazier. Harbaugh was originally lower than everyone but Frazier, but now I'm like whatever, he'll win games. Fields may be more Kaepernick than his full potential but they'll win. I buy that Quinn is a well liked guy and could build a great staff. I'd be skeptical until I see said staff, but no problem with him if he does. I've kinda learned to not really care about actual in-game coaching too much. Obviously things like playcalling matter, somewhat and challenges, timeouts and so forth. But this is a talent driven league. Zac Taylor, Kingsbury, and a few others aren't really good coaches, but they have good/great QBs and fantastic weapons and they win. Get the talent, develop the talent. If Quinn can build the staff that can do that, he's fine with me.

100% parked in the economy lot. No question

He's interviewed or was requested for every opening. He had 2nd interviews with multiple teams. It's not just McCaskey and Polian. The NFL loves to recycle mediocre white coaches.