DC/OL wish list

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(10 hours ago)M.W. Wrote: Now - cheapest guys available please step to the front of the line!

I actually find that line of thought interesting. If you can believe the numbers that have been put out there, there was only 1 playoff team this year (Todd Bowles with TB) with a HC that makes less than Zac does, who is allegedly in a 4-way tie for 17th at $4.5m/yr.

It's going to be hard to ever lure a good coach here without being willing to open up the pocketbooks. $4.5m/yr would be tied for the 47th highest paid college football HC and there's 12 college HCs making at least twice that much.

Heck, Al Golden as DC of Notre Dame allegedly makes $2.0m/yr. That means he'd probably need a decent amount more to come to the NFL.


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(I know once we start talking coach salaries it becomes a bit iffy on reliability as it's not quite as open as players since they don't need to be accounted for under the cap, but this is all going off the best I could find.)

[samhain]

(9 hours ago)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I actually find that line of thought interesting. If you can believe the numbers that have been put out there, there was only 1 playoff team this year (Todd Bowles with TB) with a HC that makes less than Zac does, who is allegedly in a 4-way tie for 17th at $4.5m/yr.

It's going to be hard to ever lure a good coach here without being willing to open up the pocketbooks. $4.5m/yr would be tied for the 47th highest paid college football HC and there's 12 college HCs making at least twice that much.

Heck, Al Golden as DC of Notre Dame allegedly makes $2.0m/yr. That means he'd probably need a decent amount more to come to the NFL.


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(I know once we start talking coach salaries it becomes a bit iffy on reliability as it's not quite as open as players since they don't need to be accounted for under the cap, but this is all going off the best I could find.)

I wouldn't be shocked if he had a buyout.

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(Yesterday, 04:09 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Lol, I like the guy, but he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Especially after all those concussions...


Well, couldn't make too big of a change if we want to win the Super Bowl in the next couple of years. If we went from a 4-3/5-2 to a 3-4
it would probably take a couple of years before it started to work. With Golden, it would still be a 4-3/5-2 and he knows the scheme but he
could freshen it up which seems to be needed big time. Tackling and the fundamentals is what this Defense has been missing.

The Tackling and fundamentals of the Irish seems pretty great to me this year.

But yeah, Eberflus would of been a big change without making too big of a change and he has a good resume' with the 4-3 in the NFL.


Great points as usual. Yeah, the man coverage against those Buckeye Receivers specifically Jeremiah Smith could be a big problem for 
Golden and the Irish Defense. They will have to adapt and split coverage as you say. This will tell a lot about the guy.


Exactly, that is why I think it could be smoother if it is Golden.


Valid concern, but the Defense was shitty under Freeman before Golden got there...

I talk regularly with some guys that coach a few pretty good high school programs,  and they all point to Golden. I guess we'll see if he's hired.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(Yesterday, 04:09 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Valid concern, but the Defense was shitty under Freeman before Golden got there...

Freeman was only there for 1 year without Golden and they were the 15th scoring defense in the nation.

The year before, for Freeman's last year at UC before going to ND, the Bearcats had the 8th scoring defense in the nation.

[Mike M (the other one)]

(Yesterday, 06:02 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Yeah, but they aren't good at it like Watt and Highsmith are. Trey likes his hand on the ground in a 4-3 and you need a true Nose Tackle like
Heyward to take up multiple OL to run a 3-4. We don't have this until a guy like McKinnley Jackson grows into one. I am not against being in 
the 3-4 at times if it causes confusion for Offenses but a 5-2 and a 3-4 are way different. You have 3 DT's in the middle usually in a 5-2.

I think McKinnley and Jenkins will grow into a fearsome Middle