Shurmer
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@king-ghoolie-lives said:
Guys,
relax. There is no chance that Shurmur is going to keep his job. However, Haslam isn't going to let the rumor mill fire up before he even sets up shop. The 2012 season amounts to players finally being motivaed at the fear of being cut. That's all that matters at this point. We're not going to the playoffs and we're not going ot win the SB. I think we WILL beat some decent teams and continue to see development from a few surprising places.
New owner, new coach, new philosophy, new energy. IS Haslam going to be THE guy? Doens't matter, he IS the NEW guy and he can't possibly do worse than the Lerners. Plain and simple, those guys let us down.
The kings are dead, Long live Mr. Haslam!
Good points Tom. Haslam and Banner may decide to ride out the season with Shur-loss, and let the team really stink up the joint. It might put us in the position the Rams were in this past April. Another team might be willing to give up a boatload of picks to take the next super-stud qb in the upcoming draft.
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The 2012 NFL season is far from over, but it's never too early to look ahead. There figures to be several head-coaching vacancies following the season, so let's get a jump on examining some potential candidates for those jobs. I've come up with a list of seven names that will likely garner serious consideration for any head-coaching opportunities that arise following the season. I've also included brief comments from sources inside the NFL about each of the seven candidates.
Chip Kelly
Age: 48
Current job: Head coach, University of Oregon
Kelly has only been a head coach for four seasons at the collegiate level, but he has already established a sterling résumé. He has captured three Pac-10/Pac-12 titles and his team is currently undefeated and ranked No. 2 in the nation. He turned down the Tampa Bay Buccaneers job last offseason, but will likely have another NFL opportunity in 2013. His up-tempo offense would need some alterations to work at the NFL level, but his organizational skills and creativity will be very attractive to NFL owners.
NFC executive: "He runs the best practices I've ever seen. I would hire him in a second if I ever had the opportunity."
Kyle Shanahan
Age: 32
Current job: Offensive coordinator, Washington Redskins
The Redskins' offense has been the talk of the 2012 NFL season. Robert Griffin III has been outstanding, but the design of the Redskins' scheme has been terrific, as well. Kyle Shanahan is getting a lot of praise around the NFL for quickly developing RG3 and designing a creative offense to fit his skills. Shanahan also was very successful during his two-year stint as the Houston Texans' offensive coordinator. In 2009, the Texans finished with the NFL's fourth-ranked offense under his leadership. Despite being only 32 years old, the son of Mike Shanahan already has coached in the NFL for nine seasons.
AFC executive: "Kyle is extremely smart and he's excellent with quarterbacks. He has all of his dad's qualities and he's going to be a great head coach."
Mike McCoy
Age: 40
Current job: Offensive coordinator, Denver Broncos
McCoy has 13 years of NFL coaching experience, including the past four as the Broncos offensive coordinator. Last season, his reputation around the NFL soared as a result of his handling of the transition from Kyle Orton to Tim Tebow. He completely overhauled his scheme in the middle of the season to accommodate Tebow's specific skill set. The Broncos finished the season with the NFL's No. 1 rushing attack. This season, he has smoothly transitioned his offense to suit Peyton Manning. They are currently ranked fourth in passing. Those rankings highlight McCoy's flexibility and willingness to adapt his scheme to his personnel.
NFC personnel executive: "I don't know Mike personally, but I've taken notice of the job he's done in Denver. He deserves a lot of credit for their success in 2011."
(Evan Pinkus/Associated Press)
Perry Fewell
Age: 50
Current job: Defensive coordinator, New York Giants
Fewell has done an outstanding job with the Giants. Their run to the Super Bowl last season was largely the result of his punishing defensive unit. He has overcome several injuries to key personnel and his reputation around the league is rock solid. He has interviewed for head-coaching jobs in the past, but those teams chose to go in a different direction. Many around the NFL believe he will not be passed over again.
AFC personnel executive: "I've never heard anything negative about him. His results speak for themselves and he deserves a head-coaching opportunity."
Brad Seely
Age: 56
Current job: Special teams coordinator, San Francisco 49ers
Seely has an excellent résumé and should garner consideration for any head-coaching vacancies following the season. He has coached in the NFL for 22 seasons, 10 of which were spent as the special teams coach under Bill Belichick in New England. He has transformed the 49ers' special teams unit into the NFL's very best. The fact that Baltimore's John Harbaugh has successfully made the transition from special teams coach to head coach should help Seely's candidacy.
Former player: "Brad was very well respected in our locker room. He is very detailed and he knows how to communicate."
Ray Horton
Age: 52
Current job: Defensive coordinator, Arizona Cardinals
Horton has quickly established a strong reputation as one of the NFL's top defensive minds. Following a 10-year playing career, he's been a successful assistant coach for 18 years. He served as the secondary coach for the Steelers prior to joining the Cardinals staff as defensive coordinator. The Cardinals have one of the NFL's top defensive units and Horton's scheme is broadly praised around the league.
NFC personnel executive: "He's going to be impressive during the interview process. He's very smart and confident and he has the ability to relate to everyone."
Bill O'Brien
Age: 43
Current job: Head coach, Penn State
It is highly unlikely that O'Brien would depart Penn State after only one season on the job. He has an incredibly expensive buyout clause in his contract and that would be a major deterrent to potential NFL suitors. That being said, he is a very hot name around NFL circles. He was a successful assistant under Bill Belichick and he has shown incredible leadership in guiding the Penn State program through an extraordinarily difficult situation.
Former AFC personnel executive: "Knowing Bill, he has too much integrity to leave those kids, but he's eventually going to be a very successful NFL head coach. He's very tough and organized and he's a winner."
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I vote Chip Kelly, and let him build a scheme around the spread and speed. The offense has the athletes in Richardson, Benjamin, Cameron, Little, and Gordon. A misconception that people have about Kelly's offense is that he needs a running QB; look at Darron Thomas, he had average speed at best (I believe mid 4.8), but they ran plays that tailored to the athletes around him. Weeden, also, definitely looks more comfortable when the offense is spread out and sped up. And we wouldn't have to worry about him not attempting a 4th and 1 or a 4th and 2.
Whoever Haslam picks, it has to be a no nonsense guy who has the players respect. I doubt this team cares about Shurmur.
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Its funny... a lot of these coaches are great once they get great players.
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Dennison played linebacker for the Broncos in the 80's and joined the Broncos coaching staff in the mid 90's.
He moved his way up from offensive assistant,special teams,offensive line to finally coordinator.
Dennison worked under zone blocking guru Alex Gibbs.
The Denver and Houston offenses that rely heavily on zone blocking are renown for their ability to utilize a particular style of running back with great success regardless of their "stock"(e.g,Terrel Davis 6th round,Arian Foster undrafted).
The zone blocking scheme relies on athletic technicians rather than powerful maulers, it is particularly effective against blitzing 3-4 defense.
The Texans moved from 30th ranked rushing in 2009 under Kyle Shannahan as OC to 7th in 2010 under Dennison in his first season as Texans OC.
The 2011 Texans ranked 2nd in total rushing yards and the 2012 Texans are currently 6-1 ranking 1 in attempts 6 in total rushing yards and 1 in rushing touchdowns.
I think the Browns are built perfectly to bring in Dennison as HC and current Texans OL coach John Benton.
We have three solid lineman and two running backs who would flourish in a zone blocking system.
Despite how the league has become so catered to quarterbacks and the passing game it's only a matter of time before running the ball and defense wins another championship.
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I think Shurmur's station in life is as an offensive assistant. Holmgren should have recognized this.
We are a young, talented team that is not getting good coaching from the top.
Not only was the 4 & 1 decision atrocious, but how about the end of the first half: The refs gave Reggie Wayne and the Colts an amazing spot ... giving them a fourth and one instead of a fourth and three and an obvious punt. Shurmur needed to challenge that spot, there was undisputable video evidence that the ball was not spotted right. Instead, he does nothing. The Colts come out and on 4 & 1 deep in their own territory, pretend to go for it ... and the poorly coached Browns jump offsides. Just a very frustrating sequence of bad coaching ... that stuff doesn't happen to losing teams.
Truck Stop Jimmy looks like a guy that commands respect and he is going to want his team to command respect too. Shurmur is no leader. He will fire his ass at the Bye week if we lose the next two ... you can count on it.
That was a football game that needed to be won. Shurmur didn't have the balls to win it.
Outcoached by Bruce Arians.
Zombo
Zombo said:
I think Shurmur's station in life is as an offensive assistant. Holmgren should have recognized this.
We are a young, talented team that is not getting good coaching from the top.
Not only was the 4 & 1 decision atrocious, but how about the end of the first half: The refs gave Reggie Wayne and the Colts an amazing spot ... giving them a fourth and one instead of a fourth and three and an obvious punt. Shurmur needed to challenge that spot, there was undisputable video evidence that the ball was not spotted right. Instead, he does nothing. The Colts come out and on 4 & 1 deep in their own territory, pretend to go for it ... and the poorly coached Browns jump offsides. Just a very frustrating sequence of bad coaching ... that stuff doesn't happen to losing teams.
Truck Stop Jimmy looks like a guy that commands respect and he is going to want his team to command respect too. Shurmur is no leader. He will fire his ass at the Bye week if we lose the next two ... you can count on it.
That was a football game that needed to be won. Shurmur didn't have the balls to win it.
Outcoached by Bruce Arians.
Zombo
I was wondering if anybody else thought that was wayyyy short,I thought the same exact thing about the spot and no challenge. Just another instance where pattycakes showed he has no nuts.
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We were talking about that. Someone said that you can't challenge a spot unless the result was a first down. Anybody know whether that is true?
I'm pretty sure you challenge the spot of the ball anytime.
Even with the most generous forward progress spot ever, he was more than a couple yards short.
Zombo
Zombo said:
I'm pretty sure you challenge the spot of the ball anytime.
Even with the most generous forward progress spot ever, he was more than a couple yards short.
Zombo
You can only challenge the spot of the ball if it has an effect on a first down. So no, Shurmur could not challenge this play even though it was damned obvious the refs gave an amazing spot to the colts. A rule that clearly needs to be changed.
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how can anyone truly evaluate shurmur as a head coach (and i'm no fan) when his fat assed puppet master is sitting in the king's chair at the board meeting table? do you REALLY think shurmur is the mastermind behind everything that happens on sunday? for christ's sake they don't even let childress call the plays even though that's why they brought him in here.
no shurmur will do as he is told until that fat fuck is finally out of cleveland and can no longer control things. unfortunately for shurmur that will be about the same time he gets his one way ticket out of town.
p.s. FUCK HOLMGREN!!!! fat fucking piece of shit. worse hire ever.
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how can anyone truly evaluate shurmur as a head coach (and i'm no fan) when his fat assed puppet master is sitting in the king's chair at the board meeting table? do you REALLY think shurmur is the mastermind behind everything that happens on sunday? for christ's sake they don't even let childress call the plays even though that's why they brought him in here.
no shurmur will do as he is told until that fat fuck is finally out of cleveland and can no longer control things. unfortunately for shurmur that will be about the same time he gets his one way ticket out of town.
p.s. FUCK HOLMGREN!!!! fat fucking piece of shit. worse hire ever.
how can anyone truly evaluate shurmur as a head coach (and i'm no fan) when his fat assed puppet master is sitting in the king's chair at the board meeting table? do you REALLY think shurmur is the mastermind behind everything that happens on sunday? for christ's sake they don't even let childress call the plays even though that's why they brought him in here.
no shurmur will do as he is told until that fat fuck is finally out of cleveland and can no longer control things. unfortunately for shurmur that will be about the same time he gets his one way ticket out of town.
p.s. FUCK HOLMGREN!!!! fat fucking piece of shit. worse hire ever.
You sound like you don't like him maybe?
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>>p.s. FUCK HOLMGREN!!!! fat fucking piece of shit. worse hire ever.[/b]>>
Don't hold it in, Mik. Sugarcoating not allowed.
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The one mistake I think Holmgren made was the hire of his friends kid, but it was a big mistake because he fucking sucks as a head coach.
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I like McDaniels also. Maybe his experience in Denver could have calmed him down somewhat. Maybe going back to Bill and Brady will help him see where he failed in Denver.
I like McDaniels also. Maybe his experience in Denver could have calmed him down somewhat. Maybe going back to Bill and Brady will help him see where he failed in Denver.
i like him too, as an offensive coordinator. i also agree with zombo that that is all shurmur will be. we've got enough ex-head coaches on staff already that if you shuffle things around and either let jauron or childress take over as HC you hire mcdaniels as off. coordinator (not saying he'd be my pick just saying) or some other young gun hot shot to take over the defense if jauron was promoted.
i really don't think this whole thing needs to be blown up.
hell i'd give shurmur another year as long as you know who is no longer around.
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The one mistake I think Holmgren made was the hire of his friends kid, but it was a big mistake because he fucking sucks as a head coach.
The one mistake I think Holmgren made was the hire of his friends kid, but it was a big mistake because he fucking sucks as a head coach.
The one mistake??? Holmgren didn't do jack shit! He gave inspirational speaches after each season.
The fatass is looking to get back into coaching again now that he has had the last 3 years off.
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man, i love the browns to death but if they decided to put holmgren on the sidelines i just might give up the 30+ years of rooting for and defending the name of this team.
why don't we just hire al grohl and be done with it. we can pick #'s to see who jumps off the suicide bridge first.
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No way they put holmgren on the sidelines. He's already said he's out the door. If this happened it would be a first indication that the new group is no better than the last.
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The one mistake I think Holmgren made was the hire of his friends kid, but it was a big mistake because he fucking sucks as a head coach.
The one mistake??? Holmgren didn't do jack shit! He gave inspirational speaches after each season.
The fatass is looking to get back into coaching again now that he has had the last 3 years off.
The one mistake??? Holmgren didn't do jack shit! He gave inspirational speaches after each season.
The fatass is looking to get back into coaching again now that he has had the last 3 years off.
This team is definitely more talented than before. You can't deny that.
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This team is definitely more talented than before. You can't deny that.
than before what?
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This team is definitely more talented than before. You can't deny that.
than before what?
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I just wish shurmur hadn't abandoned the run. The 4th down punt didn't bother me too much as the Colts went 3 and out...I can't really blame a guy for trusting his defense over his offense. If the offense develops some kind of consistency and stops losing games with dropped passes/transparent play-calling they will become trustworthy. I'm not defending Shurmur and will be very surprised if he isn't fired soon but my main beef is dropped passes(especially when the game is on the line). Overall, however, I'm certainly not as upset as most Brown's fans appear to be. How many people honestly saw this as a playoff contending team? This team is too young to play a full game, but I am interested to see how the chemistry of the team grows as the new owner gets a new HC and probably a pretty valuable draft pick.
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The year before he took over.
Actually we are younger than before and have higher upside. But honestly 3 years and we aren't winning. look at our drafts, by no means have we hit homeruns with our picks.
Please don't tell me because a guy starts for us he is a good draft pick.
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