New DC hired?

[CJD]

(Yesterday, 12:13 AM)bfine32 Wrote: This sounds made up

It's just an observation. When Zac Taylor was first hired as a coach it was as a graduate assistant at Texas A&M. Mike Sherman was the head coach at the time.

Jim Turner was the Oline coach when Zac Taylor was there. He also happens to be Mike Sherman's cousin. We hired him after he had not had a job in 5 years, as he was fired from Miami following the bullying scandal. Zac also happened to be the QB coach at Miami at the same time Turner was there.

Lou Anarumo was the DB coach at Miami during Zac's time there as the QB coach.

Brian Callahan is the son of Bill Callahan, who was the head coach at Nebraska when Zac Taylor played QB there.

Frank Pollack was a Bill Callahan disciple. He was also a former Bengals coach. He was Bill's assistant coach in Dallas from 2013-2014.

Scott Peters was also a Bill Callahan disciple. He was Bill's assistant coach in Cleveland from 2020-2023.

Al Golden, should he be hired as our new DC, is a former Bengals LB coach from 2020 to 2021.

Some of these hires ended up working out. I think Callahan and Anarumo were good coaches here. But it always felt like Taylor was hiring people that he knew without really looking very far elsewhere.

(Yesterday, 12:24 AM)pally Wrote: You act like this is unusual.  Every team does similar things in some fashion or another

That may be. I don't follow other teams very closely, so I don't know exactly how they build their coaching staffs. Nepotism is obviously a big problem in the NFL, so it may be that all staffs are assembled like this. But it just would have been nice if we cast a wider net. Why not interview Matt Eberflus, Jim Leonard, Robert Salah, Dennis Allen, etc? Seems like a wasted opportunity to just see what other voices are out there.