Jay Roosevelt

24 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I get it. I'm just not a fan of letting trends affect that sort of decision.

Ken Dorsey is technically a young, offensive minded coach. Would he be a better candidate than someone like Dan Quinn, though?

Yeah, I see where you're coming from. But I certainly hope our choices don't come down to Ken Dorsey and Dan Quinn 

1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

To be fair though, outside of McVay none of those have won a championship yet.

Most are still in the realm of "good", not yet "great" (or in some cases even consistently good).

True, but if you look at the teams that have hired head coaches since 2017 (the year both McVay and Kyle Shanahan were hired) there definitely appears to be a trend of younger, offensive-minded coaches out-performing older, more experienced and/or defensive-minded coaches.

1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

I just don't think there's enough info out there to have confidence in Slowik.

I want us to hire "consistently good", not "small sample good".

I get that logic, but we've seen a lot of younger offensive coaches get HC jobs that "weren't ready" in the eyes of many who have become great head coaches.

Sean McVay, Mike McDaniel, Zac Taylor, Matt LeFleur and Kevin O'Connell just to name a few. If anything it's been the older/more experienced coaching hires that have struggled in recent years.

Slowick. Slowick. Slowick. Slowick.

Again I ask: is it too much to ask for both?

I still prefer Slowick to Johnson, but I'd be happy with either of them.

1. Bobby Slowick

2. Ben Johnson

3. Ejiro Evero

4. Mike Vrabel

5. Brian Callahan 

1 minute ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

Slowik can't fix Bryce. But if he wants to come here for our next QB, let's ride.

This. Even if Bryce isn't the guy having Slowick will help the QB we take in 2025.

Slowick needs to be the guy. Open the checkbook, Tepper.

Bryce was bad, but so was everything around him including the coaching staff.

He probably deserves an F, but I'll go with D just because he was able to at least survive taking so many sacks when durability was such a big concern with him.

6 minutes ago, Tbe said:

 

There is a reason all the owners who came out of the Steelers org are heavily involved. It’s what was modeled for them by Art Rooney.

Tepper is just really inexperienced so his involvement hurts. He doesn’t have a lifetime of institutional knowledge to pull from.  He needs to pull away until he has 20 years under his belt.

I don't know about 20 years. Tepper can learn how to do this right, he just needs to check his ego at the door and admit that he has a lot to learn before diving head-first into the football end of the pool.

I'm very surprised Vrabel didn't get the New England job. To be honest I'm almost always against hiring retreads (more so now after the Reich disaster) but Vrabel might fall under the "team was stupid to fire him to begin with" category.

I'm certainly not against the idea of him as HC here. I do still worry about the offense, though, but at this point I think we need to focus on finding the best HC we can regardless of background.

At his age, no. We'd be right back looking for his replacement after 2-3 years. I'd prefer someone younger who can be here for 10-15+ years if he ends up doing well.

Chandler Zavala 

That honestly is not a bad idea. If it was being reported that half the candidates out there were refusing to even interview for the job it could hurt our chances of getting quality candidates to actually interview.

I get what he's saying, but in this case optics could actually matter.

My current top-5:

HC:
1. Bobby Slowick
2. Ben Johnson
3. Brian Callahan
4. Ejiro Evero
5. Mike Vrabel

GM:
1. Will McClay
2. Adam Peters
3. Nick Matteo
4. Brandt Tilis
5. Brandon Brown

23 minutes ago, Cavscout said:

If the Panthers hire a defensive HC, they should just stick with Evero

This. 

56 minutes ago, CRA said:

Vrabel is a better candidate than Belicheck at this point. 

Much better.

6 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Every few years, the NFL latches on to a  favorite Rooney Rule candidate that nobody takes all that seriously but who helps teams check off the boxes.

That might be Morris these days.

True. Morris would be a great candidate on paper if he hadn't already been a HC with iffy results.

How would extending Brown lower his cap hit? I guess if they back-load the contract but he's going to cost a lot to extend.

Give Mike Vrabel a franchise QB and you might just have something. The Titans really had no business being s competitive as they were this year.

Vrabel is a good coach. That surprises me. 

8 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

Josh McDaniels YOU ARE A CAROLINA PANTHER

Nope. You can't tell me he didn't have a role in this clusterfug.

14 minutes ago, Leaky_Faucet said:

This is really really good. He is probably the best on the list. Not an analytics guy. Talent evaluation guy and one of the best at it.

McClay is the type that could be the “President” or Head of Football Ops.

Yeah, he's my favorite for the GM job along with Adam Peters. Either one would be outstanding hires.