Mike LaFleur’s staff rumors and hiring updates….

[NMCard]

The only positive would be if Glendale raised MB’s rent.

 

[Chopper0080]

No, but I already said weeks ago that the defense was heavily influenced if not directly controlled by JG and that Rallis should be given the opportunity to put his own stamp on it. Now that might go with the good aspects too, the two years previous to last it outperformed it's talent, maybe that was JG too.

I wouldn't have minded fresh blood either, but considering we are not going to have a playoff quality QB next year I don't see any harm in seeing what Rallis can do on his own for a year. He's 32 years old with 3 years play calling experience and considered (from what I have read) a bright young mind in the game.

Where do you even get this? Gannon repeatedly stated that he let his coordinators calls their plays and run their system. I'm supposed to believe that Gannon hired a guy who worked for him in Philly to run his defense and they weren't aligned in how it should be run?

 

[azgreg]

It's all that tea! lol

Tea drinkers....what are you going to do.....

 

[football karma]

the am guys on 98.7 (Tim Ring filling in, who IMO is great BTW) were speculating it could be about the money offered

and that would be so dissapointing

because the diff between a good offer and a bad offer at the coordinator level is what? $350k -$500k per season? Its probably less than that. Its peanuts.

maybe Mike wouldn't do a 4 year deal vs a 3 year deal -- which again, in the grand scheme and with offsets, isnt really much money.

good grief.

 

[azgreg]

Oh...you said it so it must be true? You have zero evidence to back this up.

I don't think it's a stretch to say Rallis was tasked to run Gannon's defense. Gannon was a pretty defensive coordinator afterall.

 

[Chopper0080]

I don't think it's a stretch to say Rallis was tasked to run Gannon's defense. Gannon was a pretty defensive coordinator afterall.

Sure, but it is also not a stretch that Gannon brought him in because they shared the same belief in the same system.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I don't think it's a stretch to say Rallis was tasked to run Gannon's defense. Gannon was a pretty defensive coordinator afterall.

That’s fine and all, but even if the argument is Rallis was hamstrung by Gannon, then we’ve still made a DC hire who outside of his complete failure here has next to nothing to back up why he should be leading this D under a new regime.

 

[Chopper0080]

That’s fine and all, but even if the argument is Rallis was hamstrung by Gannon, then we’ve still made a DC hire who outside of his complete failure here has next to nothing to back up why he should be leading this D under a new regime.

Those other coaches probably shared how they viewed all of Monti's drafted defensive players and then they got moved off of the list. Monti could not stand to here the good name of Elijah Jones besmirched in such a way.

 

[JosiahLee]

Talk about a built in scapegoat you can move off of at the end of next season.

yeah ML is playing chess while we're playing checkers. He's ready to fire Rallis at the end of the season to earn more goodwill going into year 2 of his regime.

 

[JosiahLee]

What defensive players has Rallis helped develop since he has been here? All of Monti's draft picks COMBINED for 5.5 sacks last year. The defense gave up more ppg last year than they did in Kliff's final year, and that was with a ton of money invested last offseason. A pair of 2nd round CBs didn't have a pick all season. It was a disastrous year for this defense. Bringing back the guy who was in charge of it makes absolutely no sense.

And keeping Frye is even more baffling. The Oline fell off significantly last year with basically the same guys as they had the year before. If anything, it seemed like they were coached down.

The only defense is that we should blindly trust Mike and Monti, which is what we heard the last time they put together a coaching staff that failed miserably.

It feels like an episode of Punk'd. Ashton Kutcher will be letting us know later today this is all a big prank right?

 

[Cheesebeef]

yeah ML is playing chess while we're playing checkers. He's ready to fire Rallis at the end of the season to earn more goodwill going into year 2 of his regime.

Come on… there’s nothing like building a solid foundation for the future on top of the rotting foundation of the past. That’s a guaranteed recipe for success!

 

[azgreg]

That’s fine and all, but even if the argument is Rallis was hamstrung by Gannon, then we’ve still made a DC hire who outside of his complete failure here has next to nothing to back up why he should be leading this D under a new regime.

We'll see. Rallis is now a DC under an offensive HC. Lets get our guys healthy, get a decent draft and free agent cycle behind us and see what happens.

 

[TheCardFan]

I don't think it's a stretch to say Rallis was tasked to run Gannon's defense. Gannon was a pretty defensive coordinator afterall.

Which is different IMO than what was said by Brit.

There is no evidence to say that Rallis was basically Gannon's lackey.

 

[JosiahLee]

That’s fine and all, but even if the argument is Rallis was hamstrung by Gannon, then we’ve still made a DC hire who outside of his complete failure here has next to nothing to back up why he should be leading this D under a new regime.

Drew Petzing was the scapegoat all of last season, and somehow Rallis flew under the radar as the coordinator who was actually worse. That's not even opinion, it's statistical evidence. To DP's credit, he actually adapted and pivoted during the season...Something Rallis refused to do.

 

[Mr. Boldin]

Hasn't @Harry been saying money being offered is going to be an issue for the DC? Not sure how else we interview all these guys and decide on the DC that just helped get the HC fired.

 

[JosiahLee]

Come on… there’s nothing like building a solid foundation for the future on top of the rotting foundation of the past. That’s a guaranteed recipe for success!

I can't even fathom what led to these decisions. It's beyond bizarre. I mean this is leadership 101 stuff. They are so unserious about winning. I can at least understand that this organization is cheap and isn't committed/willing to put forth the resources needed to actually win...But I refuse to believe they are actually this incompetent, because nobody is this dumb.

 

[football karma]

I would have thought that Mike had enough awareness to know that an entirely new regime -- HC, OC and DC -- was the minimum needed to sell the fanbase on "headed in a better direction"

 

[jf-08]

I'm calling ******** on Gus Bradley... totally lost believability with saying he could call plays. No way ML was gonna walk that back after his introduction.

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My take - we offered the position to each and they all declined.

 

[jf-08]

You do if you get offered an insulting contract offer and/or hear a plan that sounds like it won’t just work but could kill your long term prospects of ever being a DC again after being set up to fail in Arizona.

Both of which are totally believable scenarios considering how historically cheap Bidwill is and inept Monti has been.

You said this better than I did.

 

[azgreg]

The cynicism of this fanbase is something else.

 

[jf-08]

The cynicism of this fanbase is something the team has earned..

FTFY

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Hey SOG, I like long John Silvers

Gets a bad rap for some reason. If they had one in my town, I'd eat it once a month probably...

 

[some dumb guy]

The cynicism of this fanbase is something else.

I know, isn't it great? Anytime I feel a little down I log on read all the gloom and doom and I feel a lot better. Thanks everybody!

 

[Cheesebeef]

The cynicism of this fanbase is something else.

You’re saying this like we haven’t been given ample reason for it, especially over the last five years of one baffling decision after another, starting with extensions en masse for everyone after a historic second half collapse and humiliating playoff loss that’s still haunting the team to do this day, at least with QB and likely with coaches paying multiple salaries.

 

[Delmar M Lewis]

Imho The guys they wanted 1. Didnt want them or 2.Their wanting a bridge to get to "Their guy"ie Schartz etc.