The Coaching Deathwatch Thread

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Steelers are holding a 1PM PC tomorrow. Top candidates to fill his spot are OC Whisenhunt and OL coach Russ Grimm. Amazing that the Steelers have only had two coaches since 69'

They should sign Wannstedt.  Because he's good.


lollerskates

[Rome]

Pastabelly's take on the Chin leaving Pittsburgh.

Goddamn, it's hard to believe he's been coaching the Stillers for 15 years. 

[QB Eagles]

Sounds like Shell getting canned is a done deal. I'm sure that Al Davis firing one puppet with no real power and hiring another puppet with no real power is exactly what that team needs.

[BigEd76]

Goddamn, it's hard to believe he's been coaching the Stillers for 15 years. 

Yup, and now Jeff Fisher has the longest tenure (took over in-season in 1994), followed by Shanahan in 1995.  Reid, Billick and Holmgren began with their new teams in 1999 and Belichick took over NE in 2000.  Every other team in the NFL has changed head coaches at least once in the last 5 years....

[TRUCK RATHMAN]

I'm in Oakland.  Should I be rioting??

you should be duckin bullets

[SD_Eagle5]

This would be comical

•An outside-the-box idea for Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga, who requested suggestions from the media during his press conference:

Interview Deion Sanders for the vacant head coaching job.

Sound ridiculous to hire a former player with no coaching experience? No more ridiculous than hiring former NBA player Avery Johnson with no coaching experience. All he did was lead the Dallas Mavericks to the NBA championship series. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban thought outside the box, and was rewarded for it. Huizenga could be as well.

Don't look now, but Deion Sanders seems 'primed' and ready to enter the coaching arena. Deion would love to break into coaching, love to do it in Miami and would succeed in that area just as he has succeeded in all others. If Huizenga is unwilling to take my word for it, fine. But he should talk to Sanders and see for himself.

Certainly established coaches haven't worked for the Dolphins, and Sanders couldn't do any worse. And the guess is he'd do markedly better.

[Eaglez]

There is no way in hell that Deion could transition from being a commentator to a Head Coach with no prior coaching experience.

If Miami wants to take that shot, by all means go for it. But I have a feeling he would be a horrible head coach. No one would take him seriously.

The Avery Johnson comparsion is bunk. Avery was a very heady PG who knew how to play the game. And everyone knows that a good PG is like another coach on the floor. Deion was a CB and punt returner. The levels of knowledge are not even comparable.

[SunMo]

plus Avery Johnson was an assistant for a few years before he was a head coach

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Signing Deion to do something he's incapable of doing sounds like something Dan Snyder would do.


Oh, right.

[rjs246]

There is a HUGE difference between a former basketball player jumping into coaching and a former football player jumping into coaching. In fact, I can't even believe that a literate person who (presumably) has watched both sports who would make the comparison.

[Eaglez]

True. The analogy is ridiculous on his face. Plus, as SunMo pointed out,  his analogy is false from the outset. Avery Johnson was an assistant coach for at least a year before taking on the role as head coach.

[QB Eagles]

Adam Schefter is usually pretty good, but he's way off base there, no doubt. Wayne Huizenga wouldn't touch that idea with a ten-foot pole.

[Feva]

Last year... he made a little noise around here mentioning that he'd like to coach the Falcons.

Apparently, Deion is serious about this coaching shtein. 

[Diomedes]

Not serious enough to go out and coach a little league team maybe volunteer as an assistant coach at a high school?

I don't know..maybe he's done something like this and I don't know it because I don't give a shtein about him.

But I bet all the same that he's only serious about getting his name into papers, onto tv lips.

[hbionic]

lollerskates

That's probably the stupidest thing I've ever read...and one of the funniest.