![]() ![]() It’s been six years since he was fired in Denver and he is more than ready to combine what he learned then, what he’s learned back with the Patriots and the life experience that comes from being on the planet to take another job.Įxpect him to be very discerning for two big reasons.įirst, working for the Patriots and with Tom Brady and Bill Belichick means he’s already got one of the top jobs in football. McDaniels is probably the hottest head coaching prospect on the market. So there will be marketing hoops to jump through, hands to shake and sponsors to pose with that may not exist in every market. The downside to the Jags is it’s got a losing culture and the new head coach is going to have to go hard-ass early and understand that Khan is an owner that wants to grow revenue streams in Europe and by being innovative. That means the new guy can use Bortles as a stop-gap until a successor is unearthed ( and this is a baaaadddd draft for quarterbacks). Anyone watching football has seen enough Blake Bortles to understand he’s an inaccurate, boom-or-bust quarterback with the fundamentals of an Iron Mike pitching machine. The owner, Shad Khan, and GM, Dave Caldwell, are saying all the right things about the new head coach having latitude. The best gig out there is probably Jacksonville. Taylor will be out after the season but the new head coach coming in – whether that be interim head coach Anthony Lynn being elevated or someone from outside – has to determine whether he wants to be saddled with the development of Cardale Jones in addition to getting the rest of the team developed. The front office soured on Tyrod Taylor and wanted to see rookie Cardale Jones get at least a little activity. Rex Ryan and GM Doug Whaley got sideways early but as the season wore on, the quarterback position became a reported flashpoint. If you’re McDaniels, do you feel comfortable that you can make something of him? If you can’t, how much chaos will you cause if you try to push Goff aside and bring in someone else because that’s a rebuke of the still-in-place personnel people.Īnd that’s what happened, apparently, in Buffalo. He’s going to get about three years to prove himself which – in the impatient NFL – is about the life expectancy for a sub-.500 coach. In LA, whoever gets hired better damn sure feel comfortable having Jared Goff dictate the future of his family. Miami also had the second-most stable quarterback situation of all the teams that had opening last offseason (Giants, Dophins, Bucs, Titans, Eagles, Niners, Browns).Īnd that’s something that muddies the waters with each opening. Say what you want about Tannanbaum’s track record but he’s got two things going for him – he’s seen a lot since coming up with the Jets in the mid-90s and he’s an easy guy to get along with. Working for owner Stephen Ross and with both experienced personnel man Mike Tannenbaum and newly elevated Chris Grier it’s worked out well. I felt like it was a good group for me to work with.” I felt good when I interviewed and I felt good about the people I was talking with and interviewing with. “Really, at the end of the day, I was just going off of how I felt with the guys that I was talking to,” Gase added. He said that being a seasoned and discerning candidate led to his comfortable situation in Miami where he’s got the Dolphins at 10-5. I asked Adam Gase on Wednesday about his interview process before taking the Dolphins job last offseason. So, while they sit in judgment of the candidates, the candidates better be making their judgments as well. ![]() As do the personnel men in each city, Les Snead, Dave Caldwell and Doug Whaley. Jeff Fisher, Gus Bradley and Rex Ryan all may have had it coming to them in LA, Jacksonville and Buffalo, but Stan Kroenke, Shad Khan and Terry Pegula – the owners of each of those franchises – have to share blame. The guys sitting across the desk or the dinner table, smiling and giving a candidate the floor to speak freely are fresh off their own screw ups. The most important factor Patriots coordinators Josh McDaniels and Matt Patricia – both presumed to be in line for interviews – have to weigh is what level of dysfunction the people doing the interview have wrought on their franchise.Ĭlimate, salary, roster, fanbase, school system, tradition – none of it matters if the owner and GM doing the hiring are a bad match followed closely by who the quarterback is. Three NFL head-coaching vacancies have emerged. ![]()
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