2023 NFL Regular Season

Kraft: I'm gonna hire a guy with 0 experience to be my next head coach. Let's see someone make a worse decision.

Jerry: Hold my beer.

What's really impressive is that twice in that span, they were the #1 seed, meaning a bye and needing to win only a single home game against no better than the #4 to reach the NFCCG, and they **** the bed both times.

Let's gooooooooooo hahahahahaha

Dallas had a very good year, 2nd best team in the NFC

hard to top that for a 1st year head coach...GIving McCarthy another year makes sense, Dak just had his best year ever...So you bring in Vrabel, then go 10-7 and lose rd 1? Then what? Not like this team has the floor of a Allen/Mahomes. It could get a lot worse with a new HC with a 1st place schedule

I'm not even really pro-keeping him, but I acknowledge the complexity of that situation and why you would give him another year

Jerruh nevuh disappoints.

2004-2006: d2 football player
2007-2008: undergraduate assistant
2009: freshman football coach
2010: GA Coastal Carolina
2011-2012: HS football (teacher)
2013: Defensive QC intern UCF
2014-2016: HS football coach(teacher)
2017-2019: HS teacher/analyst coastal
2020-2024: Athletic Department Data Analyst at an AAC school

I've done consulting work now for draft prep going into my 3rd year now. I'm loaned out by the university for the spring semester.

Thank you Jerruh!

You have no idea how much it means to me to keep the Cowboys irrelevant.

Needle! An OG GOAT if there ever was one!

can you give an example of the type of tasks/projects you're given when you go in for draft prep? is it eg....position focused, or is it school/region/conference focused or some kind of data/analytics across an entire class?

if you did a well on draft prep that'd be fire

Needle, what do you mean by "in the building". I guess I got the idea you meant on the Eagles staff. I guess I'm confused by those last 4 years. ****ing 2024, damn.

Big THX for answering
You're a true SE hero.

That's a terrific example of an anonymous, brief, and vague but revealing resume'. Seriously.
Thanks for posting it.

I think Siriani has surived cause Roseman is starting to smell. Jeffry Lorri smelt it, can't figure out who dealt it.

Terrible Qb contract. Defense wrecked in one year....

Roseman needs Siriani like no other.

I think Sirianni survived because he has a regular season record of 34-17 and has made the playoffs all 3 seasons, including a SB appearance.

He definitely needs to find better coordinators, though.

It's going to be so funny to see his sad little "I'll never make the Bowl" face again this weekend

We'll probably have to wait until the week after.

I suspect fatty and dumbass survived cuz there isn’t an obvious replacement that makes the teams any better, and you need to know 100% you’re improving to pull the trigger on it in their spots

Harbaugh is going to the chargers or the raiders

BB doesn’t fit at all with either franchise

You can’t afford to wait for Ben Johnson and I’m sure the 15 mil price tag is a lot to stomach

What’s left? Vrabel? Bienemy?

Antonio Pierce has already been told he is the Raiders HC. They just can't announce it because they have to interview two minority candidates and they have to wait until after the divisional rounds.

Yes, I know that makes no sense since AP is a minority hire but this is the NFL and Rog is in charge.

I doubt Bienemy is getting any offers this year even though the season played out pretty well for him. Unfortunately for him, most people seem to think "holy cow, Nagy sucks as an OC" instead of "Bienemy left KC and the offense collapsed".

I agree there's no obvious replacement for Siriani but he's probably on thin ice. His douchy behavior certainly didn't help with public opinion. I wouldn't want that guy as HC of a team I root for.

It's not like they can't tell him sorry bro if Harbaugh tells them he's interested in the job. I believe he's going to LA though.

I thought the rules regarding these were:

-If you hire a minority coach you aren't required to interview anyone else.
-If you hire a non-minority you have to interview 2 minority candidates for the position. This now includeds GMs, front office positions and QB coaches.
-If another team hires away one of your coaches who is a minority you get rewarded with a 3rd round compensatory draft picks in each of the next 2 years.
-If you hire a minority head coach from another team that team gets a free draft pick in the next two years.

The pro moves are to:

1. Only hire minority coordinators, because teams will be slightly more hesitant to hire him away from you since they don't want to give you two 3rd rounders and if they do you get compensated for it.
2. Don't hire a minority head coach that is currently with another team if you can find similar talent on your own team or a non-minority on another team to prevent giving another team two 3rd rounders.
3. If you hear about a minority coach likely getting looked at for a head coaching position you hire him before he signs that deal on a 10 day contract for $1M contingent on him getting hired as a head coach on another team. This is essentially paying $1m for two 3rd round picks which is insane value - especially since it doesn't count on the salary cap.

I read somewhere that they actually still have to interview 2 minorities if they hire Pierce (no idea if he counts as one or they need two additional). It's ridiculous and honestly insulting and completely spits in the face of what the Rooney Rule is trying to accomplish assuming this is actually the case.

If someone wants to hire Harbaugh, I'd prefer they don't interview anyone else either. Having these token interviews is not why the Rooney Rule exists.

How about this,

The biggest struggle I find right now is grading out offensive linemen and linebackers. Schematically it is becoming more difficult to narrow down assignments. Assignment football is not a huge indicator of NFL success, but still something that has merit and goes into the complete evaluation. Years ago assignment football was a lot of how I looked at college players and the youtubes I put up are hilariously bad(well maybe not that bad but it is fun for me to go back and watch some).

My main focus is coverage. So a lot of DB play and some LB. Though I do some evaluation on 0/1/2i techniques as well. And coverages can be annoyingly complex. Colleges are trying too hard sometimes.