Should we bring back Kevin Coyle as an assistant?

[Shake n Blake]

(10-05-2015, 04:24 PM)tigershrimp Wrote: I get that he's a scapegoat for a flippin' disastrous quarter-season....

Thing is, he was on the hot seat last year. Suh IS a cancer, you're right. The part you have wrong is that Coyle isn't culpable in letting the Suh cancer eat at his authority, and that Coyle may have lobbied to bring in Suh to halt his slide from favor:

“I think the only possibility that you have today is maybe Kevin Coyle won’t have a job by the end of the day,” the Sun Sentinel’s Omar Kelly said on the Joe Rose Show. “I do believe that Kevin Coyle probably deserves to be fired for this reason: this problem has continued since six games into last season, hasn’t gotten better, and they haven’t been able to stop the run. In fact, the problem is getting worse. I felt like he shouldn’t have been fired last year. I clearly think I made a mistake because I thought injuries were the reason they started to fall apart against the run. It’s not the reason why. They just can’t stop the run.”

Let me ask you this: If Coyle were the DC for the Bengals, do you think he ever would've lost the locker room? I think the answer is pretty obvious. The culture in Miami has been an issue for a long time and I just can't fault Coyle for it. He probably just got caught up in a problem that has been going on for a long while there.

I doubt Coyle was the main guy pushing for Suh, seeing how the Dolphins have been very active in free agency (and trades) on both sides of the ball for quite a while now (Brandon Marshall, Mike Wallace, Reggie Bush, Suh, Jordan Cameron, etc). 

Obviously we're not talking about Coyle coming here to replace Guenth, but even if Coyle were the DC in Cincy, I'm confident that he wouldn't experience the same problems. That's a Miami/Philbin/Ownership problem, not a Coyle problem.