Juan Castillo, new DC of your Philadelphia Eagles

[DH]

this interview is making me exponentially madder than i was before it started

[General_Failure]

Because you want a bag of oranges, but you keep driving around and nobody's selling them?

[ice grillin you]

he sounds like a nice enough guy, and he's walking into a shteinstorm not of his creating.  i actually feel bad for him as a person.

i dont...by all accounts he lobbied hard for the gig

[DH]

100 million % this guy will be a starting member of the eagles secondary at some point in the next year or two..

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Is Chris Gocong that kid's mom?

[General_Failure]

We're going to have to come up with a new derogatory term. I guess we'll go with spink.

[PhillyGirl]

Thursday, February 3, 2011
Steelers coach: Reid's job on the line

FORT WORTH, Tex. -- News travels fast in the NFL and when one head coach makes a bold, stunning, some may say crazy decision to promote his offensive line coach to defensive coordinator, it ricochets to the game's biggest stage.

In case you woke up thinking that Andy Reid's decision to name Juan Castillo as his new defensive coordinator was a bad dream, it was not. It was as real as the assessment Steelers offensive coordinator Bruce Arians made about the potential fallout from such a decision.

"Andy's job is probably on the line," Arians said Thursday. "But I know this -- he replaced [Castillo] with a good offensive line. Howard Mudd is the absolute best. The quality of the staff is there. Now it's just a matter of game day and how they're going to handle it."

Arians has to gotten know Castillo through coaching channels and is familiar with his legendary work ethic.

"Nobody's going to work harder because Juan is one of the hardest-working coaches that I know," Arians said. "When you block as many things as Juan has blocked you kind of know what's sound on defense and what's not."

Still, there are very legitimate questions about how Castillo will handle some of the chores of the job he is not accustomed to.

"Now matching wits with an offensive coordinator -- the scheme's going to be sound. He knows what's sound," Arians said. "It's having the gut calls, when to blitz, when not to blitz, when to play this, when to play that. That would be the only question I would have."

Steelers linebackers coach Keith Butler was rumored to be one of the candidates for the opening.

"I think Andy's sitting there thinking, 'How can I beat protections?'" Butler said. "And he's got a guy that's trying to figure out how to protect against every team in the league. So this guy has probably seen every blitz known to man. So I can see Andy's point of view."

No one seems to recall such a move ever taking place in the NFL.

"No, I haven't," Butler said. "But he's not doing it to get fired I will tell you that."

Steelers offensive line coach Sean Kugler actually played under Reid in Texas El-Paso when Reid was his position coach. Kugler laughed when he was asked if he had any desire to one day be a defensive coordinator.

"I have no aspirations to do that," Kugler said. "If I was asked to do it, I don't know if I would refuse. I enjoy coaching the offensive line. But people are up for different challenges."

Asked for his best Reid story, Kugler obliged.

"Most of them involve food," Kugler said. "The whole time in college all the other coaches used to bring doughnuts and he never brought doughnuts. We used to just kill him on it, 'When are you going to bring the doughnuts?' We used to kid him that he ate them on the way to work."

[ice grillin you]

im sure juan will be fine in camp and maybe even practice...but its going to be straight comedy watching him on the sidelines during a game when everything is moving a thousand miles per hour

Thursday, February 3, 2011
"Nobody's going to work harder because Juan is one of the hardest-working coaches that I know," Arians said. "When you block as many things as Juan has blocked you kind of know what's sound on defense and what's not."

Still, there are very legitimate questions about how Castillo will handle some of the chores of the job he is not accustomed to.

"Now matching wits with an offensive coordinator -- the scheme's going to be sound. He knows what's sound," Arians said. "It's having the gut calls, when to blitz, when not to blitz, when to play this, when to play that. That would be the only question I would have."

thats exactly what i was talking about

[Sgt PSN]

Yeah....I don't have any reason to doubt his ability to coach and plan and scheme.  I only doubt his ability to execute. 

[ice grillin you]

i mean i also question his ability to design an entire defensive playbook so its not going to be all daisys during the week but yeah now the offensive and defensive coaching is going to suffer on sundays

altho i suppose he will just co-opt jj's book and tweak it a little

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Yeah....I don't have any reason to doubt his ability to coach and plan and scheme.  I only doubt his ability to execute. 

So, he'll be like Reid. But en espanol.

[Rome]

Reggie White played defensive end in the USFL and went on to a HOF career in the NFL.

Therefore, Juan = future HOF defensive genius.

Trust me, it's science.

[Sgt PSN]

Yeah....I don't have any reason to doubt his ability to coach and plan and scheme.  I only doubt his ability to execute. 

So, he'll be like Reid. But en espanol.

Yeah, except that I would expect that if Castillo were doing the same job for 12 years, he'd learn from his mistakes and gradually get better. 

[Rome]

I think the Eagles have hired a big time special teams coordinator, a big-time D line coach, a big-time O line coach and they could have hired who they wanted for defensive coordinator. In fact, they DID hire who they wanted. It is shocking to everyone. Now we shall see how Juan works out.

I...

[smeags]

Reggie White played defensive end in the USFL and went on to a HOF career in the NFL.

Therefore, Juan = future HOF defensive genius.

Trust me, it's science.

so that would mean castillo wouldnt win a lombardi until he went elsewhere ?