Or the rams with McVay, the niners with shan, eagles with sirianni, giants with Daboll… good lord can we make this trade right now?
Ask Andy Reid (and his previously "always a bridesmaid never a bride" career) if he thinks Patrick Mahomes was worth a 10th pick! THAT'S the more important question in the equation. The thing is by how much?
The interviews they conducted are largely believed to be introductory in nature, for the most part. I think it's hard to say there's a leading candidate. Gannon is who most people say, based off the fact that we almost hired him last year.
I still think Gannon is the leader in the clubhouse. They haven’t interviewed Ryans yet. I think it’ll come down to those 2. With the guy from the Rams as the sleeper.
I don't know about that - no team has hired a coach yet, and several teams aren't going to get their first choice. There's no way he'd know he's not getting hired already. He's young and likely to have future opportunities, so why not set yourself up for success? That first job likely determines whether you'll get a 2nd one, and if you flop, there's a decent chance you won't get a 2nd opportunity, especially as more and more teams are going for younger and newer coaches instead of recycling mediocity. I think the two names he's been associated with the most are Carolina and Houston, and neither of those is a promising gig - if he's only "OK", there's a decent chance he'd be fired in 3-4 years after some bad rebuilding seasons. If he is a hot name, he has the luxury of being able to wait for a higher tier job to open up that gives him a better chance to do well (Cinci a few years ago, Denver last year, etc).
Now didn't you just tell me no coach is going to pass up a chance at one of these 32 dream jobs? I kid, I kid....
I know you're joking, but I often do that say that for shorthand. But to clarify, top tier coaches absolutely will pass up opportunities because they know there will be more. I was saying that there's a big chunk of people below the top-tier prospects and the David Culleys and Lovie Smiths of the world who wouldn't pass up any opportunity they got. There's no world where the Texans could only get a David Culley, no matter how crappy the job was.
The excuse that he likes what they are building in Detroit is silly. Does that mean he'll stay next year as OC too? He wants to see this through right? He's passing up tens of millions of dollars because he wants to see it through in DET? Just don't buy that at all. DET flops next year and he could be that Joe Brady guy, out of the cycle. So either: 1) He doesn't like the available jobs 2) He didn't think he'd get one of the available jobs and is proactively protecting his reputation No way he just wants to be the OC of DET because he's so excited about their future.
Loomis would throw an absolute shitfit if Payton insisted on going to the one team that has almost no draft capital. I also don't understand all the Carolina talk for Payton. Would the Saints really be willing to just let him go to a division rival? And Carolina would almost assuredly have a higher price to pay than any of the AFC teams in the mix for him....would they really want to pay it?? Also, what exactly makes the Panthers job more attractive than the Texans? We have more draft capital, more cap space, a weaker division, and more control within the organization at his disposal.
