12-31-2018, 10:59 PM
(12-31-2018, 05:07 PM)Au165 Wrote: Nah just pointing out that this idea coaches should be beating down our door to coach here is a bit misguided. It will then turn into "Mike Brown is cheap and hates winning" which may be true but may also not be up to him. Fans spend all offseason talking about why Mike Brown sucks but now expect potential coaches to overlook it.
We don't have a bubble, we don't sign FA's, we don't pay at the top of the league for coaches, Mike Brown is involved too much......but coaches should overlook that all? Or are we now saying that all is no longer an issue because we need to be appealing to a new shiny toy?
(12-31-2018, 06:11 PM)Whatever Wrote: Mike prefers a committee approach on personnel decisions, and generally serves as a tiebreaker if a consensus can't be reached. It's not the same as also holding the GM title, but it's a lot more power than most HC's have.
The Bengals actually did spend in FA through the early to middle parts of Marvin's tenure. They are never going to be one of the top spenders, but they've shown in the past to be a lot more active than in recent years.
Every job has it's Pros and Cons. Arizona just canned their coach after one year and needs a total rebuild. With the Jets, you get the NY media circus. Denver has an egomaniac entrenched as the GM who traded one of their best players at the deadline and made Joseph the scapegoat after failing to find him a QB. If the Browns don't give Greg Williams the job after the turnaround he pulled off this year, you have to ask yourself seriously how much you want to work for those guys. Miami and Tampa aren't in good salary cap positions right now.
McDaniels is in the cat birds seat right now as Bill's heir apparent. I don't see him bolting unless it's a playoff team like the Chiefs that cans Reid for coming up short in the playoffs.
A big component is also going to be who you can get for coordinators. Going to be a lot of former coordinators that just got canned looking to settle back into those jobs.
This ^^^
And in the end, it's one of a select few openings (7 or 8) in the entire world. As you point out, every opening has positives and negatives. You go to Green Bay and they're going to expect an instant SB contender with a wounded Aaron Rodgers, for example. All you have to do is scratch a little beyond surface level to realize none of the available jobs are amazing. That's why they're available. Coaches still want that prestige and some embrace the challenge.
And to keep pounding the drum that keeps getting ignored, we hired Marvin Lewis when he was a big name candidate. Probably the hottest young name out there. Imo, that's the coup de grace to this whole idea that we can't land anyone half decent. It's already happened. But I guess if we limit the list of names that count as "big names" to only 3-4 guys, that kinda increases the odds that au165 is correct this time.
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