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I'd Hire Lovie Smith

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  • Unless there is a guy named Bill Belichick, or Sean Payton, or somebody with the last name Harbaugh out here, is there any clear cut choice to make? Anyone think Jack Del Rio might be available? Not sure what is going on with John Fox or the contract status of Del Rio.

  • All coaches mentioned so far would "more than likely" revert our defense back to a 4-3. And why not right? Maybe next year we can run a 5-2, nobody runs that...we'd be cool. Fuck this

  • I dont like lovie as anything but a DC he just is not offensive minded enough..

    It was a bad call firing chud and after looking at available coaches i honestly do not expect the next hire to be anything close to an upgrade..

  • I called for lovie as head coach with norv as oc last year. Id still like to see that, but I wonder if they won't just promote Norv at this point

  • I'm sure there's been a call made to Gruden. The only reason why I wouldn't hire Gruden is that there's only been 2 coaches in NFL history who have won a title with two different teams. The deck is stacked against him. But Lovie Smith isn't a bad choice. I'm sure he has something to prove.

    @mark-o said:

    I'm sure there's been a call made to Gruden. The only reason why I wouldn't hire Gruden is that there's only been 2 coaches in NFL history who have won a title with two different teams. The deck is stacked against him. But Lovie Smith isn't a bad choice. I'm sure he has something to prove.

    Guy Chamberlain and Weeb Ewbank?

  • Why would a coach the caliber of Lovie Smith want to come here and be a fucking sock puppet with Banner and Lombardi's hands so far up his ass?

    He fucking wouldn't.

    We're in the same situation we were with that fat fucking walrus in charge. We're getting a Shurmur quality coach. Fuck this front office. I refuse to support this team in any way if McDaniels is the next hire.

    @vaportrail said:

    Why would a coach the caliber of Lovie Smith want to come here and be a fucking sock puppet with Banner and Lombardi's hands so far up his ass?

    He fucking wouldn't.

    We're in the same situation we were with that fat fucking walrus in charge. We're getting a Shurmur quality coach. Fuck this front office. I refuse to support this team in any way if McDaniels is the next hire.

    There are only 32 of these jobs.....and they pay 4-8 million dollars a year.

    Chud is getting like 10 million to go away.

    THAT is why he would take this job.

  • Norv should get his walking papers. I have never understood how that dipshit keeps getting jobs.

  • Norv should get his walking papers. I have never understood how that dipshit keeps getting jobs.

    @logicisforsquares said:

    Norv should get his walking papers. I have never understood how that dipshit keeps getting jobs.

    Yes. One of the most overrated offensive coaches of recent memory.

  • All coaches mentioned so far would "more than likely" revert our defense back to a 4-3. And why not right? Maybe next year we can run a 5-2, nobody runs that...we'd be cool. Fuck this

    @clevfan4life said:

    All coaches mentioned so far would "more than likely" revert our defense back to a 4-3. And why not right? Maybe next year we can run a 5-2, nobody runs that...we'd be cool. Fuck this

    LOL... haven't seen the 5-2 since George Allen's 'Skins spang it on an opponent in a playoff game decades ago... won the game with it.

  • @clevfan4life said:

    All coaches mentioned so far would "more than likely" revert our defense back to a 4-3. And why not right? Maybe next year we can run a 5-2, nobody runs that...we'd be cool. Fuck this

    LOL... haven't seen the 5-2 since George Allen's 'Skins spang it on an opponent in a playoff game decades ago... won the game with it.

    @tour2ma said:

    LOL... haven't seen the 5-2 since George Allen's 'Skins spang it on an opponent in a playoff game decades ago... won the game with it.

    Think about it. Taylor, Rubin, Winn, Mugshot (if his heart is ok), Hughes....all on the line at the same time. Maybe substitute Kruger in there on the edges from time to time. Just tell those guys to fire out every play. Sure we'd get beat but it would be fun to watch the Browns get the rep for ending qb's seasons. They'd be hobbling off the field all season long. At this point fuck winning eh.....just make it so that no one wants to play offense against us. Most despicable and appalling defense of all time would be fine with me.

  • @tour2ma said:

    LOL... haven't seen the 5-2 since George Allen's 'Skins spang it on an opponent in a playoff game decades ago... won the game with it.

    Think about it. Taylor, Rubin, Winn, Mugshot (if his heart is ok), Hughes....all on the line at the same time. Maybe substitute Kruger in there on the edges from time to time. Just tell those guys to fire out every play. Sure we'd get beat but it would be fun to watch the Browns get the rep for ending qb's seasons. They'd be hobbling off the field all season long. At this point fuck winning eh.....just make it so that no one wants to play offense against us. Most despicable and appalling defense of all time would be fine with me.

    @clevfan4life said:

    Think about it. Taylor, Rubin, Winn, Mugshot (if his heart is ok), Hughes....all on the line at the same time. Maybe substitute Kruger in there on the edges from time to time. Just tell those guys to fire out every play. Sure we'd get beat but it would be fun to watch the Browns get the rep for ending qb's seasons. They'd be hobbling off the field all season long. At this point fuck winning eh.....just make it so that no one wants to play offense against us. Most despicable and appalling defense of all time would be fine with me.

    The jury is still out. Honestly how often did you see the pocket collapse from the middle and not the edges.

    Consistently it was Kruger and mingo or Shepard getting a rush and the qb takes a half step up and those guys are blocked out of the play. Collectively we need a rush not just from the edges. I would like to see the line of scrimmage moving backwards. This D should have had more sacks imo

  • All coaches mentioned so far would "more than likely" revert our defense back to a 4-3. And why not right? Maybe next year we can run a 5-2, nobody runs that...we'd be cool. Fuck this

    @clevfan4life said:

    All coaches mentioned so far would "more than likely" revert our defense back to a 4-3. And why not right? Maybe next year we can run a 5-2, nobody runs that...we'd be cool. Fuck this

    I would rather run the 46. Plenty of talent up front to do it. Taylor and Rubin in the middle, Bryant and Winn on the egde, Ward, DQ, Kruger, and Mingo behind the line with Gipson roaming center field. We could pick up another edge rusher with all the picks we have. Leave Haden manned up and maybe pick up another physical corner. That defense would make all of our divison opponents shit in their pants.

  • According to Adam Schefter, Lovie Smith is the front runner for the Tampa Bay job.

  • According to Adam Schefter, Lovie Smith is the front runner for the Tampa Bay job.

    @mark-o said:

    According to Adam Schefter, Lovie Smith is the front runner for the Tampa Bay job.

    Think we could entice him away from Tampa? <------hard lols...not a chance.

  • According to Adam Schefter, Lovie Smith is the front runner for the Tampa Bay job.

    @mark-o said:

    According to Adam Schefter, Lovie Smith is the front runner for the Tampa Bay job.

    Didn't even know Schiano got fired. Going to be a lot of openings to fill. The strong candidates have to be looking at Banner and Lombardi and no QB and saying "No fucking way".

    Zombo

    --If we go back to a 4-3 defense after spending all that money on Bryant, Kruger at al, I'm going to shit.

  • N Neo

    @clevfan4life said:

    All coaches mentioned so far would "more than likely" revert our defense back to a 4-3. And why not right? Maybe next year we can run a 5-2, nobody runs that...we'd be cool. Fuck this

    I would rather run the 46. Plenty of talent up front to do it. Taylor and Rubin in the middle, Bryant and Winn on the egde, Ward, DQ, Kruger, and Mingo behind the line with Gipson roaming center field. We could pick up another edge rusher with all the picks we have. Leave Haden manned up and maybe pick up another physical corner. That defense would make all of our divison opponents shit in their pants.

    @neo said:

    I would rather run the 46. Plenty of talent up front to do it. Taylor and Rubin in the middle, Bryant and Winn on the egde, Ward, DQ, Kruger, and Mingo behind the line with Gipson roaming center field. We could pick up another edge rusher with all the picks we have. Leave Haden manned up and maybe pick up another physical corner. That defense would make all of our divison opponents shit in their pants.

    Kruger and Sheard would be out in that scheme...not fast enough. If you're basically putting DL's on the edge...than extra pressure comes in the form of blitzes so that's when a kid like Mingo makes more sense. Kruger especially is too slow to be moving around in space.

  • @mark-o said:

    According to Adam Schefter, Lovie Smith is the front runner for the Tampa Bay job.

    Didn't even know Schiano got fired. Going to be a lot of openings to fill. The strong candidates have to be looking at Banner and Lombardi and no QB and saying "No fucking way".

    Zombo

    --If we go back to a 4-3 defense after spending all that money on Bryant, Kruger at al, I'm going to shit.

    Zombo said:

    Didn't even know Schiano got fired. Going to be a lot of openings to fill. The strong candidates have to be looking at Banner and Lombardi and no QB and saying "No fucking way".

    Zombo

    --If we go back to a 4-3 defense after spending all that money on Bryant, Kruger at al, I'm going to shit.

    Six open jobs as far as I can tell:

    Browns

    Bucs

    Lions

    Redskins

    Texans

    Vikings

    Any others? I seem to recall Jason Garrett being told that another 8-8 season would see him fired, so maybe there's something there.

  • @mark-o said:

    According to Adam Schefter, Lovie Smith is the front runner for the Tampa Bay job.

    Didn't even know Schiano got fired. Going to be a lot of openings to fill. The strong candidates have to be looking at Banner and Lombardi and no QB and saying "No fucking way".

    Zombo

    --If we go back to a 4-3 defense after spending all that money on Bryant, Kruger at al, I'm going to shit.

    Zombo said:

    Didn't even know Schiano got fired. Going to be a lot of openings to fill. The strong candidates have to be looking at Banner and Lombardi and no QB and saying "No fucking way".

    Zombo

    --If we go back to a 4-3 defense after spending all that money on Bryant, Kruger at al, I'm going to shit.

    Bryant can easily switch to a 4-3 DE all things "healthy", which I don't know right now. Kruger is also theoretically a hybrid anyway and probably does his best work with his hand in the ground...so he can be a 4-3 DE easily as well. But yeah I get what you're saying...it's another switch and shoehorning guys into new roles is not what we should be doing EVERY GOT DAMN MOTHER FUCKING YEAR omg...omfg I'm getting mad just saying that to myself.

  • Zombo said:

    Didn't even know Schiano got fired. Going to be a lot of openings to fill. The strong candidates have to be looking at Banner and Lombardi and no QB and saying "No fucking way".

    Zombo

    --If we go back to a 4-3 defense after spending all that money on Bryant, Kruger at al, I'm going to shit.

    Six open jobs as far as I can tell:

    Browns

    Bucs

    Lions

    Redskins

    Texans

    Vikings

    Any others? I seem to recall Jason Garrett being told that another 8-8 season would see him fired, so maybe there's something there.

    @gftchris said:

    Six open jobs as far as I can tell:

    Browns

    Bucs

    Lions

    Redskins

    Texans

    Vikings

    Any others? I seem to recall Jason Garrett being told that another 8-8 season would see him fired, so maybe there's something there.

    Garret "might" get 5 wins next year if he comes to Cleveland which apparently isn't close to good enough so fuck it and put him on the ex's payroll.

  • @gftchris said:

    Six open jobs as far as I can tell:

    Browns

    Bucs

    Lions

    Redskins

    Texans

    Vikings

    Any others? I seem to recall Jason Garrett being told that another 8-8 season would see him fired, so maybe there's something there.

    Garret "might" get 5 wins next year if he comes to Cleveland which apparently isn't close to good enough so fuck it and put him on the ex's payroll.

    @clevfan4life said:

    Garret "might" get 5 wins next year if he comes to Cleveland which apparently isn't close to good enough so fuck it and put him on the ex's payroll.

    Wasn't suggesting we go after him at all! Just saying he might go.