Evero HC requests!

[carpanfan96]

19 minutes ago, rodeo said:

No news is bad news, I feel like he'd be hired by now if he was gonna be

First Interviews have just started in most of the openings he's going for. 

[Jay Roosevelt]

I actually think Evero might be a more serious candidate than we realize for some of these jobs.

I would not be shocked to see him end up getting hired.

[Loyalty4Life]

16 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

Yes, I provided it. You didn't.

He was the DC of the worst run defense in NFL history.

Why?

A.  He's not very good and could in fact be horrible if the facts are worst defense = worst DC.  

or

B.  He did not have the personal to run a proper NFL defense.

The context is the cupboard was pretty bare when he got here and we focused on the offense and basically put the defense on the back burner.

If A is correct, then explain why last year and this year so many other teams are trying to poach him for a DC or head coach position.  Square that circle for me.

Edited 58 minutes ago by Loyalty4Life

[strato]

8 minutes ago, Loyalty4Life said:

He was the DC of the worst run defense in NFL history.

Why?

A.  He's not very good and could in fact be horrible if the facts are worst defense = worst DC.  

or

B.  He did not have the personal to run a proper NFL defense.

The context is the cupboard was pretty bare when he got here and we focused on the offense and basically put the defense on the back burner.

If A is correct, then explain why last year and this year so many other teams are trying to poach him for a DC or head coach position.  Square that circle for me.

I have yet to see his mastery of building a shut down the run defensive scheme.
But I can’t condemn anyone off of what could never be because they were forced to take a butter knife to a gunfight as he was in 2024.  

[kungfoodude]

20 minutes ago, Loyalty4Life said:

He was the DC of the worst run defense in NFL history.

Why?

A.  He's not very good and could in fact be horrible if the facts are worst defense = worst DC.  

or

B.  He did not have the personal to run a proper NFL defense.

The context is the cupboard was pretty bare when he got here and we focused on the offense and basically put the defense on the back burner.

If A is correct, then explain why last year and this year so many other teams are trying to poach him for a DC or head coach position.  Square that circle for me.

Are you now equating best/worst rush defense with best/worst defense? Those are separate things entirely.

For rush defense, depending on how you quantify it, he has been largely in the bottom third of the league his entire career as a defensive coordinator. 

As you can see, aside from his one year in Denver, he has never been above 20th in yardage. Now, there is context to consider which is most coordinators choose to run on him(24th-32nd ranked in his three year in Carolina). So, if you just simply look at Y/A, it has been a relatively mixed bag. Twice a top 15 defense but twice a bottom 15 defense. 

The thing the should make all this good/bad run defense a lot clearer is the right most columns. Evero's defense has always prioritized pass defense and confusing QB's. That's the core of his defensive philosophy, as has been reported relatively widely.

As much as there are ample personnel issues on that side of the ball(many of which he contributes to with his below average talent evaluations) his defenses may never be truly elite in rush and pass defense unless they are stocked with defensive talent. Like....his Denver defense that he inherited was.

To that point, if you look at all those rankings from the three years Fangio(of whom Evero is a noted disciple) it shows a progression of getting steadily better into the far more elite defense it is now under Vance Joseph.

As far as his HC interest, recall that he was a hot commodity after Denver and that cooled significantly after his first two years here. I suppose if you count getting interviews for HC positions as a benchmark for being a good coach(most would not) then he is middle of the packish.