too. Just like the calls trying to figure out who their coach
was going to be and, you know, these two teams should go out
on the same page say okay you hire your guy Tuesday and you
can have all of Tuesday will hire our guy, Wednesday, we get
all a Wednesday. Why are we doing them both the
same day? But the Cardinals got one of their own
Eagles coordinators. There's the message. Kids, if you want
to be an NFL head coach get it, get on a team, be
a coordinator, go to the Super Bowl and lose. Then you'll be
a head coach Jonathan can in the he goes defensive coordinator.
Now the head coach of the Cardinals,
here's a little video of Gannon showing up in Arizona and
running into the guy that eventually will be back on
the field as the starting quarterback collar Murray.
All right, we'll see you soon,
he's in there.
Audience. Not great on that. Sorry for anyone listening on
Sirius XM 85. But it was Jonathan Gannon, leaving
the facility after he took the job owner. Michael Bidwell, saying,
oh by the way, collar Murray's, in the weight room today,
Jonathan Gannon goes down the hall. He drop herself, is I let
me go say hi to him. Period, he starts running, he starts
running to go see Kyle memory, right? And apparently Murray's,
rehabbing
his torn ACL in Tempe,
not at the team facility but he happened to be in the team
facility yesterday so they had a quick moment to Together.
It's going to be the big challenge
for Jonathan Gannon. Defensive guy,
you better find a coordinator
/ quarterbacks coach who can come in
and get on the same page with kailah Marie and you better
hope. The guy doesn't do a really good job of it, because
then what happens that guy becomes a head coach and you
gotta find another one you. Yeah. It's a girl franchise
quarterback, particularly you,
you know. And I was, I thought they were going to hire Brian
Flores they'd be in the same boat if they had. But
You got you got
you got a great quarterback and you want to get the most out of
him in his career is at a Crossroads. This is a risk and
I hope it's a calculated Risk by Michael Boudreau to go with
a defensive coach because
one scholar Murray gets comfortable with this new staff
and does really. Well, that's when you say, farewell to
the offense coordinator better, hope somebody else on the staff
is ready to step in and continue that relationship in
a positive way. Yeah, no. I mean you're right that that's
the current status of the 83 NFL and you know the way we see
offensive coaches get hired and right you know rise up
the ranks quicker
than ever before. I mean
we don't have to you know explain it any more than what
we've seen here just today and I was far as Shan Shan steichen
how quickly he rose the rose up, the ranks and became a head
coach but
hey I'm a fan of the higher.
I am, I mean again I Jonathan Gannon
you know,
first thing where did who did he learn from and learn from
some really damn good defense of
Which is Maddie with loose Mike Zimmer, right? We can say what
we want about Mike Zimmer and how it ended in Minnesota. We
know he was a good defense of mine knows how to coach dbe's
do all that stuff.
So I love the school of coaching he's from
and he showed some stuff to me at least in the last two years
in Philadelphia. Let's not forget
like 20 21 the Eagles, the way they play defense,
kind of simple. If you break it down you look at the teams of
quarterbacks that. Played them last year and the 2021 season.
I mean, oh my gosh, they tore apart the Eagles. Eagles are
kind of basic, they've tried to play sound and we're just not
going to be out of position and do all that. And if you
remember, right, like, Brady Herbert Mahomes, Derek Carr,
they all had games. Where they were, like, 28 to 31, 34, 34,
they just tore them apart.
He kind of re-evaluated himself this offseason, and he ran
a different defense. That was much more aggressive and
creative. And you know, really tried to squash some of
the things you do. It was no more. We're just going to play Safe
and Sound now. Hey
yeah you saw that. It came back to bite them a little bit in
the Super Bowl because he faced off against against another
great offense of mine but
I like the higher.
But yeah I would think that
you know, the offensive coordinator position, all of
that, I would hope that he's got a few guys, you know, was
sitting there waiting to be hired and is explain that to
the bidwells and
and they got somebody in mind that will here About here in
the next day or two.
And, you know, the reality is Gannon was a finalist for
the job last year in Houston. He was under consideration this
year, so he's been there done that. He knows that he's going
to have to have a staff
ready to go and he presumably did. And
now off, he goes
to be the head coach of the Cardinals. I don't know how
desirable that job currently is. We have a caller Marie fact
recovering from the torn ACL. It does give a new coach,
a little bit of a buffer like, hey, what do you expect from
me? Like, I've hit,
I mean, you're starting quarterback has a torn ACL.
Not going to be back on the field until the middle of the Season
at best, and then you go through the process of figuring
out whether or not he can become the guy, he needs to be
how good do the Cardinals expect to be what are the real
expectations, how much time is gaining going to have to turn
it around? Or is he just going to be the next guy to
eventually be fired?
We'll see how it goes. But
you know the reality is only 32 of these jobs but some of them
are better than others. This one,
this one may not have been as desirable as some of
the others. If I was ranked Being the five
this year the it probably would have been at the bottom. We
didn't do that this year. Usually we were ranked them
this year.
I'd say the Cardinals would have been at the bottom.
I don't know which one would have been top, but the Cardinals
probably would have been at the bottom know. There's some work
to, you know, to your point and you got to figure out. Yeah.
The quarterback. What you do, how do you want to play around
him? What makes sense,
you know, as far as style of a play with him.
So and then, you know, defensively other some work
there too. There are some pie makers on the defensive side of
the ball.
It's to of the within
with Thompson and Buddha Baker. It's one of the
the better safety combinations and football.
They got
Marco Wilson and Byron Murphy are too damn. Good corners on
the outside. We we talked to one of the linebackers and
Isaiah Simmons, they got Savin Collins there so he's gonna
have some pieces to play with on the defensive side. They
gotta get it
another defensive lineman or two that can be
game changers, right? You know, Isaiah Simmons, talk to us. It
was big that they I lost Chandler Jones, you can say
what you want, but his presence on the outside was a huge thing
and they got no more JJ Watt. So they got some work to do
there. You're right. It's maybe one of the least desirable ones
that are out there but not that bad. There's still a lot of
positives to look at
and I think the big thing to me Mike is kind of what you
brought up that offense of coordinator spot. Who's in
a higher, what's his vision? Here of the offense
is there somebody else he's going to be able to pillage from the
you know Philadelphia.
Eagles coaching staff, that is going to make the offense of
coordinator. I'm going to be very interested to see what he
does in that department.
Well,
we put the graphic up.
Let's let's put the graphic up. Again of the five, vacancies,
whoa, I was trying to rank them in my head, I don't know. None
of them. Look all that great to me when you consider some of
our worst. I think if anything the Texans. Well I don't know.
Are they well you come in there
with a hype you come? Yeah, hi pick.
I hear you there after they have fired their coach, right?
- years, you got a six-year contract. You have
an opportunity to do your thing without any real expectations.
You know the Panthers job. You
An owner who's kind of demanding and involved and,
and, and you just feel like he'll kick you to the curb
quickly. If you don't turn things around, but he's getting
very impatient
and has been impatient with the Broncos. You got the Russell
Wilson factor with the culture, you got Jim irsay. I think that
I hate to say it. The most dysfunctional, football
operation of the past few years.
May have been the most attractive of these five
openings. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, it's that
none of these really jump out to me as
master And I got to go take that job and I understand why
Sean Payton locked onto the Broncos job because the fan
base is great.
The ownership has the cash to do, whatever. Needs to be done
to go out there and get the players you need. And maybe if
you have to move on from Russell Wilson, you just bite
the bullet and you do it at some point. But there are,
there are reasons to to not like every one of these jobs
and there's plenty of reasons and say
hey the bar is low.
The arrow can go nowhere. We're but up at this point for
the Texans,
maybe that is the best of the jobs and you're in that
division where
you know, the Titans maybe starting to dip and who knows
what the Jaguars are going to be and maybe they're going to
take it over. But you've feel like that better room to
compete there.
I mean I hear you can make up case I think for a for a lot of
these, you know, the you're right. There's no blank canvas
in Houston but I think there's a lot of work to do there. So
it's like you said,
okay, yeah, it's blank but you know, you're also going to be
picking from guys that are on
Reuben, you don't know what they are in the NFL and can
those guys, you know, flourish to what you think they're going
to be? No, there's a reason these jobs are open. It's not
always just because the head coach was bad.
It's usually because the,
the roster had some issues there as well.
And um but but again, I think there's enough positives here
with Arizona where you just go. Hey it could be worse, we do
have a quarterback
you know we do have a guy that's got
a pretty damn good.
You know, skill set. You got a few little weapons to play with
as far as you know, at verse. Seaver
and running back.
So we'll see where that goes. Jonathan get in the one thing
I always hear about him. I don't know him. It's Just Energy and
the ability to lead people and Men, you kind of can see that
on the clip there.
He's a high-energy in-your-face no-nonsense kind of guy
so I'm excited for him and
now the coaching hires are done and doesn't seem fair to
everybody out there but congratulations to the ones
that did get jobs and you know, here we go, 2023.
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