Mr. Scot

Hiring him to help their new DC learn his job. Smart.

Mills introduction by teammate Rickey Jackson...

Kudos to Darin...

Full class...

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Yeah, saw that. Similar thing happened to the Seahawks. They were set to hire Ed Donatell as their secondary coach when the Vikings got him as their DC.

I could see it.

Fair question The guys with prior connections to Scott Fitterer might, and I didn't realize it till after taking a closer look but Bill Lazor has that too.

Took a quick look at potential quarterback coaches that might be available (as a result of head coach firings) if they moved Ryan over to the receiver coach position. It's not a bad list at all - Bears offensive coordinator Bill Lazor - Bears quarterback coach John DeFilippo - Jaguars quarterback coach Brian Schottenheimer - Jaguars offensive coordinator / interim head coach Darrell Bevell - Broncos offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur - Raiders offensive coordinator Greg Olson Haven't run down all the connections, but obviously Darrell Bevell and Brian Schottenheimer would be known to Scott Fitterer from their time with the Seahawks.

One other possibility that might be worth mentioning... Sean Ryan was actually the receivers coach in New York back when McAdoo was their OC. It's conceivable that the team could move Ryan over to that spot and hire a different quarterback coach. There are some decent ones available, and if they think that's a better setup than leaving Ryan over the quarterbacks and hiring someone like Henry, who knows?

From what I understand, the Cowboys didn't fire Henry. His contract was up and they replaced him with Robert Prince. Henry was not only part of the Cowboys staff along with Ben McAdoo last year, he was also McAdoo's receiver coach when he was head coach of the Giants. I'd say the receiving corps in Dallas last year looked pretty good.

Best wishes, man.

No indication that Campen had anything to do with the departure. Per one of the Giants reporters, Sparano had previously worked with Brian Daboll in Miami and wanted to join his staff now that he's a head coach. And yeah, objectively speaking the current situation in New York is better than ours, so...can't really blame him.

Well, ya know... She's had the first of her surgeries, the one that I was most worried about, and outside of a few issues has been recovering well. The next two might be a little more difficult on the recovery front though.

I'm not sure he wanted Frisman Jackson or Jason Simmons to go either, but they wanted to so he let them. I don't think that's a bad thing, but the fact that guys are willing to head elsewhere without getting promotions does speak to the state of the team.

From what I've read, the idea has actually been proposed in Congress before, though I don't know how seriously it was meant to be taken. Didn't go anywhere, obviously.

Different situation. That was outside teams inquiring about Angelichio, not Angelichio wanting to look somewhere else.

He did, but he's already broken that particular practice (I don't really think anybody expected that to last at this level anyway). The departures don't strike me as guys he was planning to fire since he would have just done that when he fired the other three. Throw in that there was definitely no rationale to fire Jason Simmons.

Looking at the guys who've come aboard... James Campen is a good coach who's recently had a track record of getting hired in places where the coach got fired a year later. Truth be told, that trend could continue this year, but even if it does I hope we keep him. Steve Wilks was coaching at the college level largely off the NFL radar save for one recent interview. Coaching here brings him back home to Charlotte, is good for his career and good for us as well. Ben McAdoo wasn't exactly in high demand himself but had at least returned to the NFL in a minor role as a consultant on the cowboys staff with former Packers colleague Mike McCarthy. Not sure I get choosing him over Jay Gruden so much, but he'll get a chance to reform his image here. Chris Tabor is probably the guy who would have been in the most demand by other teams. His hiring is a good move, and other than Campen the one I like the most. On the flipside, Paul Pasqualoni is probably the one I understand the least. Brentson Buckner was available, has a solid resumé and a Panthers connection. And he'll, if you wanted somebody in this age group why not go for Rod Marinelli? So overall it's a mixed bag. Some are guys with good reputations but also guys who weren't necessarily on a lot of other teams' radars. We'll see what happens...

You're referring to the time I took off from talking football after being told my wife was going to need three surgeries?

Person's article in The Athletic did a pretty good job of framing it. Basically, an overwhelming majority of people feel like this is a lame duck year for Matt Rhule, and some would rather jump ship than be on board when it sinks.

On the work front, I'd much rather see Monday made a national holiday.

Alexander explained in another tweet that it's not Rhule pushing guys out so much as it is not stopping guys who want to leave. Basically, if they want to look elsewhere, Rhule isn't blocking them from interviewing. For lateral moves especially, he could.