Analysis of decisions made by NFL teams Is intrinsically an exercise to ask to be cold takes roast on the road. Whether it is choice of pre-season, selections from week to week, project notes or comments on coach hires, there will always be things in this league which are not going as expected or who go in the direction opposed to what we expect.
You can try to classify the level quarters in levels with a semblance of nuances and the same list will be rejected in front for a different year without the appropriate context.
Which is a long way to say, let’s say a few notes so that the coach hires this off -season! Yeah, I will note the seven coaching hits and I expect that at least one of them goes completely in my face in a hilarious way in a year.
Look at Dan Quinn in Washington – a hiring that I liked but which was treated with “meh” answers because it was considered a spare – and its success with the commanders in 1. Bruce Arianans in Arizona is a great example a coaching rental that was swept away and also paid immediate dividends.
I will note it here and that will probably not have importance when people come back with receipts, but I will include the process of the team as part of the note. I love Mike Vrabel, but I go to Ding the Patriots for several reasons, whether it is panic on the jets that interview him or treat the rule of Rooney like a Traveshamockerry hiring him.
In this spirit, let’s do something that will almost certainly end up being roasted later and noting each coaching rental so far.
To tell the truth, I didn’t think the Bears could get Ben Johnson. But they did. They have problems in the front office and with the property that should scare candidates, but they also have Caleb Williams. Johnson was the best candidate for Three consecutive coaching cycleswas extremely patient and the Bears have always attracted him from a division rival. It’s a big problem. Johnson leaves the lions knowing that he is ready to play them twice a year and to fight with the packers (which he launched in shade during his intro press conference!) And the Vikings still still four times a year. It is not an easy job, but the Bears convinced him that he had to fly slightly south anyway. Regarding the process, it was fairly healthy and effective search and rental. The Bears permanently leave the box on reg when it comes to hiring coaches and did not do this here. They obtain bonus points to damage the offensive of an opponent of division in the process Not to mention beating the jags for Johnson.
Maybe I’m on an island here, but I love the rental of Pete Carroll for Las Vegas. Raiders’ expectations are probably too high when the ground was, so so low. This team has been terrible for over 20 years and needs a serious coach to bring an enthusiasm to the gum touch. Carroll has been a year off, thought about how he will approach things, has a young smart managing director and if they hit the choices early and punish properly for a quarter, they could be a real pain in 2025. Carroll’s work here is to win a Super bowlOf course, but more importantly, he is there to quickly raise the floor of the raiders. This team appears for a random season of 10 wins or stinks for more than 10 years. In a division with Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert and Bo Nix, they will need more consistency to be taken seriously. I am quite confident of the “race” mantra from Carroll will increase the soil immediately and if they can find a quarter-back, give them a legitimate advantage in the most difficult division of football.
New England Patriots, Mike Trebel: B +
Again, the process counts. If you tell me that a team hires Mike Vrabel, I give them an “A.” Vrabel offenses were affected or missed, but he had several offensive coordinators who become chief coaches and, obviously, Derrick Henry / AJ Brown was incredible pieces of the puzzle. Patriots need guys like that! He is also an elite coach in the game who creaks on the regulations to find edges and that the defense quickly plays at the level of the elite. But the Patriots’ post-Belichick process was nothing less than a disaster. They panicked on Jerod Mayo because he obtained other interviews – something that Robert Kraft admitted in the dismissal process – then panicked when the jets interviewed Truebel and forced satisfactory interviews quite embarrassing and satisfactory with Pep Hamilton and Byron Leftwich to get Truebel. I think he is an excellent coach, I think he is a perfect coach for this situation and I bet that the patriots are better this year than last year. But when you assess a coaching rental, you must integrate how the franchise has taken place and the Pats process at the moment looks like a teenage girl aggressively refreshing an Instagram flow. It was obvious that Truebel wanted to train the Pats and the Pats fell in love with his bluff. In the end, it will probably be beneficial to them because it has cleaned the front office, but there are at least problems to worry about going ahead if the most recent rocket in New England does not take off right away.
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New York Jets, Aaron Glenn: B
Again … Process. The jets interviewed all human beings on the planet for all their jobs. They probably landed on a good candidate for Aaron Glenn, who, by all accounts, connects with his players in an incredible way. Glenn’s press conference was a great energy and it corresponds to everything you hear how it works as a coach. Bringing back an “former student” of the jets is a big plus insofar as he cares about the way this franchise is perceived. Glenn is also interested in connecting with Aaron Rodgers from the start, which would give the jets a small room for maneuver with regard to the quarter position, in theory. The problem here is whether the Jets Management team will finally move away or not and I don’t bet they will. Woody Johnson is, at best, a background five Nfl owner. Why should we expect things to happen better for jets simply because they hired a potentially brilliant coach? I love the idea that Glenn returns to the team that has drafted and won him, but I am also realistic about how it will work. The jets have just hired a first head coach with a defensive training. Like never, even if I am rooted for it to work.
It was probably going to be higher until I hear Liam Coen falling the most painful and the most clumsy “DUVAAAAAAAL“I have already heard during his introductory press conference. I also think you also had to Ding Jaguars for the process. They licensed Doug Pederson and kept Trent Baalke for a while after, cost them a legitimate opportunity to get Ben Johnson … and almost coen too. Coen’s coaching search was one of the wildest you have ever read or heard. Coen interviewed the Jags and was frightened by Baalke, so he returned to the Bucs who proposed to make him the best paid coordinator in the history of the NFL as long as he did not take a second interview with Jacksonville. Then Coen ghostly the BUCs for essentially a full day while the jags threw Baalke and interviewed him in secret, before landing him as a head coach. The real rental itself may seem quite beautiful once everything is said and done: Coen has done an excellent job with Baker Mayfield, comes from the Sean Mcvay tree and now gets to work with Trevor Lawrence, which still has one tonne of unexploited potential. Bucs stuff is a little worrying just from the point of view of coaches / relationship management staff, but I do not regret Coen to have obtained the concert as he did. There are only 32 of these jobs and Bobby Slowik is an excellent example of the reason why you do not want to let go of a head coach when you are a hot name. If Coen’s work in his only year as OC translates to being a head coach, it could end up being a home run.
Oy vey. Maybe I’m wrong and Brian Schottenheimer, whom I really like as a person, ends up being an excellent coach. His father, Marty, was an exceptional head coach who got a bad blow. But the cowboys process was a disaster here. They distorted Mike McCarthy in the same way that they distorted contracts for Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb and he simply moved away from training, with rumors that he spoke to confidants from what Cirque de la Diaphonie, the cowboys, are poaching after his departure. The cowboys quickly got involved with Deion Sanders as a possible candidate, while allowing rumors of Bill Belichick to spread to the point that the UNC had to sign Belichick to sign his contract in the middle of the search for coaches. In the end, Jerry Jones decided to promote its internal attacking coordinator, a guy without a head coach experience, and someone who will probably do what the owner / managing director wants him to make a point of offensive view. Schottenheimer obviously has the lines to succeed, but it is very fair to question the process here and if Jerry is able to carry out a “normal” search and set up a serious football team at this stage.
We noted in the original version of this that Moore had to be the guy who ended up winning the position. It was the most kept secret in the NFL, made even more obvious when Nick Sirianni held the Lombardi trophy and asked Kellen to “make him go back” during the celebration of the post-USUPER bowl. I think Moore is a good rental for the saints, especially given the way this work was unattractive. There is no real response to the quarter and the salary situation is a waste. I talked about a tonne in this article in this article and the process of saints was quite solid: they focused on Moore while the guy after Kliff Kingsbury fell and was patient with the Eagles who continued to win until What they finally won a title. Moore was a massive part. It is a wild swing of the guy who was released from cowboys and charges in the previous two seasons, but I think it is a good traction for a team like the saints, with all their various problems, to win the attacking coordinator of the super Bol champion. Moore was a hot candidate for head coaching stations in the past. Jerry Jones bathed in Fomo to lose another former OC against the saints would be just an additional bonus of him prospering in New Orleans.
