Agree… which is a tough thing to ask for a great candidate. The NFL is not for long and no one WANTS to go into a 4 year deal where he knows he likely has to take a mulligan on year 1. By year 3, no one is going to give a crap what happened two years previous if the rebuild is a year behind.
I don’t know the salary difference between coordinator and HC is huge. One 4-5 contract as a HC even if on the lower end and you’re set up for life. With a good chance if it fails you will be regurgitated as a coach in the league in some other position anyway. Is it really that big a risk?
In other words, you want to strip us of our identity. What else would we have to hang on to?
right?? Once you sign the contract that 15mil over the next 5 years is yours. even if you get fired and go back to a 300k coordinator job, you still get 3mil a year until the contract expires.
According to NFL Network, Payton is meeting with the Cardinals on Thursday.
Uh… yeah. These guys WANT to be successful. To be an NFL coach is beyond rarified… eh, forget it. This is literally too stupid to even discuss.
You’re right your position is kinda silly
money talks in the end. And of course they WANT to be successful. Coaches have shown that you CAN be successful here.
Agreed. Also, most coaches think they can fix teams/players that previous coaches couldn’t.
They all think this.
I would argue the Bidwill issue is larger than Kyler however it is an issue. Ask any coach if they’d rather have a 25 year old mercurial QB who has shown flashes of greatness but has never put it together or an owner who makes you watch film together weekly and has a front row seat in the draft room and they’d all pick the QB.
Except it’s not just “a mercurial QB”. It’s quarter of a billion dollar, injury prone, mercurial QB coming off tearing his ACL. Simply calling Kyler mercurial ignores the other major baggage he brings at this point. Without the ACL wiping out mostly likely most of next season, I think the Kyler question would have intrigued Good candidates. But it’s the repeated injury riddled seasons, topped by an Injury that will already effect next season now beg bigger questions.
That can also be a positive if that is truly the case. After all, most teams looking for a new head coach have issues winning for a reason and a little breathing space for a good coach and GM should be appealing
Coaches understand that players come and go however. You’re stuck with your owner forever. Why do you think Sean Payton flat out said publicly it’s not about the QB, it’s about the owner/GM/coach dynamic?
Not to mention that they would most likely also have to pay Ryans a fortune to settle the lawsuit he still have going against the Texans from his playing days.
