Yesterday, 05:18 PM
(Yesterday, 05:12 PM)kevin Wrote: Bengals have interviewed Patrick Graham and DeMarcus Covington, both of Patriots backgrounds. So Bengals quickly thought in terms of a Patriots type defense as over the last few years.
I do not know who else Bengals have interviewed. I would guess they can't talk to Golden until after Notre Dame plays Ohio State, nor would Golden want to. He's probably focuses on Winning Championship, and I wouldn't want him if he wasn't. Now why would Golden leave Notre Dame ? I can see for a head coach job, but not for the same job he has now only with Bengals. Notre Dame is a Top Job. This is why I doubt the Notre Dame or Oregon D Coordinators are leaving good jobs to come here.
So I think it comes down to who is looking for a job. We know the fired Bears head coach who turned around awful Colts defense in a few months. Bengals are not offering a head coaching job. It's a defensive coordinator job. I do not think defensive coordinators already on NFL teams or top Colleges are going to leave a good thing to come to Cincinnati to do same job, not a promotion. So which coaches are now out of a job OR are D coaches but D Coordinator would be a Level Up.
I'll again mention Bengals interviewed Patrick Graham for D Coordinator, but Jaguars interviewed him for Head Coach, which is a better job.
This isn't about Mike Brown being cheap either. Coach Taylor said he fired these coaches. Here is the problem. Bengals drafted some D players early, and Lou refused to play them. Now that is fine if the Defense is good, but the Defense was awful. That left Lou not playing top pick draft choices on bad terms with Taylor, Duke Tobin up to Mike Brown. Lou not playing the players upper management gave Lou, put Lou on the hot seat whe the Defense Lou was playing didn't produce.
I don't see Golden leaving Notre Dame to do the same job in Cincy. Nor do I see the Oregon D Coordinator coming to Cincy. Nor do I see NFL D Coordinators leaving their jobs to come to Cincy. ....I can see the Bears fired head coach needing a job and coming to Cincy. I can see maybe Zimmer out of work coming back. Either a coach just now out of work, OR a D coach that D Coordinator would be a promotion. Do not rule out some D Coach already on The Bengals getting promoted from within.
I think on Bengals side of interview. We had a D Coordinator who refused to play our top draft picks. If we hire you, we will insist you get our top draft picks on the field. Otherwise it defeats the draft and what the franchise is doing. Now if Lou had a great defense, but he didn't, and so him not playing our top draft picks became hard to accept.
Those top picks will get on the field more if they suck less when they ARE on the field. Lou got fired for giving up 400-500 yards in games, missed tackles, and poor results year after year. A less complacent organization would've gotten rid of him years ago.
Poo Dey
