Mr. Scot

Belichick is at least 150. It's coming about time that he'll have to shed more innocent blood to keep from aging.

Heh

That's an example I could think of off the top of my head. I'm sure there are others. Pretty sure that's what the Patriots planned to do with McDaniels before he bolted. Now I think the plan is to go with Jerod Mayo. The NFL hasn't always been like it is now.

Bill Belichick wasn't "Bill Belichick" when he took over the Patriots. Ditto Levy. Hell, plenty of people were laughing (me included) when the Seahawks decided to give Pete Carroll his third or fourth chance.

Bill Walsh handed the 49ers over to his DC George Seifert. They might have been able to keep going there if not for the fact that Seifert was kind of a dick.

Pretty sure Belichick was fired. Reid too. Levy wasn't especially successful in Kansas City either. Carroll was fired two or three times.

The idea with Reich would be to have him first "right the ship", then groom a young assistant to eventually take over and hopefully keep that process going. No guarantees, but it's really not a bad plan.

Dick Vermeil, Bill Belichick, Marv Levy, oh and that guy Reid out in KC seems to be doing all right.

Yeah, that's fake. Mention of "the Saints head coach opening" is a pretty big clue.

Witten was awful. To tell the truth though, I'm not convinced Tom Brady has the right personality for that kind of thing either. Apparently somebody is...

Yeah. Fair or not, a lot of people took Ossenfort's "no egos" comment as being directed at Murray.

My thought going into this coaching search was that I didn't give a sh-t if they were bold or if they played it safe as long as they were smart. Time will tell if it's the case, but I kind of feel like they have been.

I caught Kyle Van Noy on the radio yesterday talking about Murray. He said his experience from playing against him was that he really really didn't like being hit. Nobody likes being hit, but Van Noy seemed to imply that Murray was kind of soft. Said it wouldn't surprise him if Murray just one day decided to say "Screw it, I'm gonna go play baseball".

Yep. Crazy as it sounds, it honestly doesn't sound at all out of character for Jerry Jones.

Story was Jones got drunk, starting bragging to people that the roster was so good he could win a Super Bowl with Barry Switzer and things escalated. To be fair, he did, but since then it's gone pretty far into the toilet so it's kinda hard to say he "won".

They'd have to let him out of his contract. And honestly, given recent results, that might not be as shocking as you might think.

He gave it up to Bill Parcells back in the day, largely at the urging of people within the building. Then when Parcells didn't bring a Super Bowl, he took it as a sign that doing things his way was just as good as anything. For what it's worth, his son Stephen does seem to have some football sense. Maybe as his influence increases, things will change.

There are red flags with all of them. The secret is to know which ones to pay attention to and which to disregard. Wise teams can do that. Others, not so much.

According to the media... And that's our problem as fans. All we know comes from NFL and team media reports. Those same reports last year had Nathaniel Hackett as the second coming of Bill Walsh (spoken as someone who bought in). There's no way for us to see what's really going on behind closed doors.

Isn't that basically what we did with everybody else? That's how the first rounds of these interviews work.

Pretty much, though granted the full story isn't necessarily told yet. Last year, Jim Harbaugh walked into the Vikings meeting room like he owned the place. Then after they said "no thank you" he embarrassingly tried to save face by acting like he never really wanted the job. This year, everyone believed other coaching prospects would have to wait until Payton picked his spot before anyone else could be hired. He apparently believed he could hand pick his own GM too. Now they both look like cautionary tales..

More... Granted this could change, but if it doesn't, ouch