I didn't like the teasing of the info either, but he wasn't the only media member doing that. Brian T. Smith was also hinting pretty heavily that it would be McCown. My assumption is that they planned all along to hire McCown and the Flores lawsuit changed their plan. They didn't want the criticism of hiring McCown so their plan B became Lovie. Lovie shouldn't take the job IMO unless he's looking for a big payday like Culley got. He's going to be fired in 1-2 years so they can finally make McCown the coach.
Honestly would be fine with Lovie. Bob McNair wanted to hire him a few years ago and ended up hiring O’Brien. Didn’t love any of the guys they looked at. Team is a mess. Fine, hire Lovie and see what happens.
Brian T Smith instantly throws out that this is about Caserio not having real power and Easterby secretly controlling the org. guy knows how to throw crack to his followers
Announce it tomorrow and move on to part 2 of the off-season…lining up potential trade partners for Watson if/ when he settles his cases.
If McCown is brought on staff as QB coach (or OC....but I'll be mad if Pep isn't promoted), this might be worse than hiring him straight up. Here's why. Because yet again, Caserio is using optics of hiring a minority, but hiring them as a placeholder so he can get his guy there. The optics would have been bad to hire McCown straight up as head coach, especially with what Flores put forth. Instead, Caserio promotes Lovie, and maybe brings McCown on board. McCown learns behind Lovie so that he can become head coach in three years when Lovie is ready to move on. Caserio maybe pulls some draft picks in the meantime. Not sure about hiring minorities from within. I know from an image standpoint, this might seem great. When you really delve into what's going on here, is it worse than just hiring McCown outright? Maybe not, but it sure reeks of Caserio pussyfooting around what he really wanted to do here.
A year ago Lovie smith was the failed old man head coach of a C college program who was washed up and got hired as DC for a team that was flailing. He was criticized as a hire then but was getting the gig because he was a good grandpa figure and a Christian. He would have been a joke as Hc last year. 12 months later…
I guess I'm fine with Lovie for this part of the rebuild, but wouldn't it be great to hire a young offensive mind like who the Rams and Bengals have? I view Lovie Smith as basically a lateral move from David Culley. Not sure this makes us any better... I am pleased that we are not bringing in Flores. That guy obviously sounds like trouble and inserting him into the mix with our ownership and fan base just sounds like a recipe for disaster.
