01-07-2007, 09:16 PM
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First NFL Head Coach hired is....
Atlanta Falcons hire Louisville's Bobby Petrino ( per CNN/SI)
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01-07-2007, 09:24 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Atlanta Falcons hire Louisville's Bobby Petrino ( per CNN/SI) |
Good hiring...Petrino is a good coach...will be interesting to see what he can do with Vick and the Falcons.
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01-14-2007, 12:26 PM
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Location: Strathmore
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01-14-2007, 03:23 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Kalispell, Montana
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Originally Posted by Flickered Flame
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Good move for the Cards, horrible move for Pittsburgh to let him interview with another team. The moment Cowher resigned they should've handed Whisenhunt the job on a platter. A seamless transition was sacrificed for a process which will land them an inferior coach anyway. Maybe they're shooting for a short term failure so they can try and lure Cowher back in a few years.
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01-19-2007, 05:19 PM
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01-19-2007, 11:06 PM
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Appealing my suspension
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Just outside Enemy Lines
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Cameron's done a really good job with the Chargers. We'll see how well he does without LT. I think he'll do pretty well.
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01-19-2007, 11:32 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Okotoks
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Wow, teams waste no time at all in restocking the head coach positions!
Is there any reason why the NFL allows teams to make big movements and signings while the playoffs are still going? Wouldn't some teams still playing possibly be a little ticked that they don't get a fair shot at all the pickings and sort of get punished for winning??
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01-19-2007, 11:38 PM
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Appealing my suspension
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Just outside Enemy Lines
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Originally Posted by STAMPEDRED
Wow, teams waste no time at all in restocking the head coach positions!
Is there any reason why the NFL allows teams to make big movements and signings while the playoffs are still going? Wouldn't some teams still playing possibly be a little ticked that they don't get a fair shot at all the pickings and sort of get punished for winning??
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Well if you made it to the conference championship game chances are you're probably not looking for a new coach. 
NFL is a big time systems based game and the coach in the NFL has huge input in personell descisions. Head coaches in football are more like managers because a lot of them delgage the specifics of the games to their assistants and as a result the coach needs to know the systems, know his assistants so he can help get the right personnel in place. So it's not really a game where you can go too long without a head coach in place. Because without a head coach a team can't really be doing much of anything.
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01-20-2007, 08:11 PM
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01-22-2007, 11:42 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Jim Mora is the secondary coach for the Seahawks. Is that so he can be closer to the Washington team he so dearly wants to coach?
Would he (or could he) consider the Cowboys?
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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01-22-2007, 09:46 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Raiders hire Len Kiffen
31 years old, son of Monte Kiffen.
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01-22-2007, 09:50 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flames in 07
Raiders hire Len Kiffen
31 years old, son of Monte Kiffen.
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Do you mean Lane Kiffin the OC at USC?
If so I guess if the one OC turns you down you offer the job to the other OC.
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01-22-2007, 10:02 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Yep, OC at USC, and was an assistant at Jacksonville I think.
Youngest assistant coach ever in the NFL
youngest OC in NCAA Div I history
and now youngest HC in the NFL
man HC in the NFL at 31. That's kinda interesting ... HC in the NFL will be a whole new level of stress for that guy.
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01-22-2007, 11:37 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Jim Mora is the secondary coach for the Seahawks. Is that so he can be closer to the Washington team he so dearly wants to coach?
Would he (or could he) consider the Cowboys?
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No, since he has ties to Seattle from growing up back there in the 70's, I thikn he jumped at the chance to be home.
Plus, he was going to be taking a year off otherwise...may as well pull in a paycheck and be living at home.
Obviously coaching the secondary is a pretty low profile job, which I think he's fine with for a year or two.
Successor to Holmgren down the road? Or at least a move up to OC in the next couple years? Maybe, but big if's there. As would be a move to the Washington job if/when it becomes free.
But for now it appears as just a job in his "home" city, instead of sitting out a year.
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01-23-2007, 11:01 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Originally Posted by browna
Successor to Holmgren down the road? Or at least a move up to OC in the next couple years? Maybe, but big if's there. As would be a move to the Washington job if/when it becomes free.
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Well, defensive coordinator (at least that is what he was in SF). I could see the Holmgren succession if Holmgren was still the GM. When he gave up the GM was there any consideration to one day giving up coaching and becoming the GM again?
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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02-19-2007, 04:08 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
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And now SD snags Norv Turner. Crap, I wanted him to tutor Smith for another year.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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02-19-2007, 04:12 PM
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#1 Springs1 Fan
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Good hire, they never should've had to make though.
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