a lot of working, are the new head coaches. We now have nine.
Let's do a quick round up here. The new coach in the best
position to succeed right away is who Shireen?
I guess I'm going with Josh McDaniels for the Raiders
because you know, normally Mike, when you change head
coaches, you change head coaches because you weren't
very good the previous season, and you weren't very good. The
present previous season before that, and it goes on and
on, and on. And that's why a lot of these teams are changing
coaches. Now for the second time, third time
in recent history, but I'm going to go with McDonald's
because he does take over a playoff team. That doesn't mean
I think the Raiders are going to go to the Super Bowl.
They have the quarterback in place, which a lot of these
other teams don't and they're coming off a playoff season. So
I think he steps into a better situation than any of these
other guys who are going into these other teams that were
talking about.
You know, I really hate to say this. Now.
Let me preface my remarks by saying that
all of these jobs came open
for a reason, they all came up in for a reason, their team.
Stink for the most part, except the Raiders job because of Jon
Gruden. And
I
I was going to say
Maddie brief loose in Chicago because right now
right now look at the NFC North. I mean if success is
getting a playoffs
that is the weakest Division
and Aaron Rodgers may be leaving, but then I thought and
this is where I regret what I'm about to say.
Well, if we're going to go to the NFC North, I'd say Kurt
Kevin O'Connell says, a better position to succeed than Maddie
brief loose so they got it. I'm really not all that
they got. Yeah, and he's got the quarterback, the guy. I'm
not really all that thrilled that they hired because
I wanted Jim Harbaugh. They still could get to the playoffs this
year and they may be in a better shot than any of these
other teams. Although give Brian Day ball is shot in
the eighth
in the NFC East.
But if if Rogers leaves
the Vikings division, which was once the black and blue
Division, if Rogers is out.
There's a vacuum there and I'm not sure the lines are ready to
fill it. Not with Jared Goff at quarterback. And I think it's
an uphill, climb a little bit from a debrief loose. I think
Kevin O'Connell is in the best position
to succeed, right away whether he gets to where
the Vikings want to go and whether it's sustainable, as
a different issue. The risk is higher. This offseason is who
well, I'm going to say Lovie Smith and perhaps not for
the reason you think because it opens them up to a lawsuit
because they didn't being part of the Brian florist lawsuit
because
they didn't hire Brian Flores. So
that to me is a risk, is it would have been even more
risky? I think, for the Texans, if they had done what they
wanted to do, as we all know, which is hard Josh McCown, but
they hired Lovie Smith. And so, to me for that reason, that's
the riskiest one,
the others. I don't, you know, started look at the Just from
a purely coach matching to the team.
I think they all did pretty good in matching up the coach
to the team and given that team a chance to win long-term.
I like a lot of these hires
and I'm going to go risk from the perspective of the coach
because you only have so many of these opportunities in your
life. You want your first one to work out because maybe you
get a second or
you know, Lovie Smith got a third but usually not
Our days. You see guys get two chances.
So you better make the first one count.
I think Mike McDaniel has taken a real risk going to Miami
and I know that folks have ambition and drive and I'm
going to be the one to turn around a dysfunctional
situation, but it is inherently dysfunctional
in Miami. It's been that way ever since Steven Ross, took
over the fact that he's an absentee landlord is running
that one of the reasons why there's dysfunction because
there's no leadership there in place
to ensure that you don't have Of infighting and regardless of
the Brian Flores allegations and who said, what to whom and
when, and how that's all going to play out. And you're going
to have that hovering over everything you do
as head coach of the dolphins.
That case is not going away
by the start of the 2020 to seize. And I guarantee you that
that is always going to be a distraction potentially
and the issues underpinning
that lawsuit are still present. The forces
are still present. Stephen Ross
is still the owner.
What if Ross gets
Run out by the owners
and then you got a new owner and you're Mike McDaniel
and you know, I had previously thought
that okay, Ross,
just hands the reins to Bruce Beal, the guy that he's going
to sell the team to. Anyway, I wrote something last night,
connecting dots and reading between the tea leaves. A Sims
would say
there's a chance that of Rosco's bill goes to because
Bruce Beal has worked very closely with Ross. He's not
some limited partner who's disconnect with Ross. He works
at his right arm with the related companies, the real
estate.
Conglomerate that. Stephen Ross owns
Bill's been part of that. Since
1995 BL is the vice chairman of the Dolphins. If this stuff
sticks to Ross, chances are, there's going to be some
text messages, some emails, some other evidence, that shows
that bill knew exactly what was going on. So it may be a clean
sweep
in the ownership suite for the Dolphins,
which could make it much more difficult for Mike McDaniel
going forward. So he's taking a hell of a risk jumping into
that pit of dysfunction in South.
Florida. The new coach, whose shoes you'd want to be in long
term is who Shireen?
You know, I remember sitting here a year ago and saying, you
know, I really like the Jaguars coaching situation with all
the draft picks. They have, they're going to end up with Trevor
Lawrence and they have money to spend in free agency, and
obviously what a
disaster that was, but
I think I would say Doug Peterson and maybe he doesn't
like the front office and ownership position, but I do
think he has a chance to win their when you consider a
the division that they're in.
And, and be the fact that they do have draft picks and they do
have money. And they do have some young talent. And if
Trevor Lawrence is the guy,
they have the guy in place. Now, I don't think we saw
enough to know that last season, but you know, what, if
Trevor Lawrence was coming out this year. He'd still be
the number one overall pick this year. So
maybe they have their quarterback in place and maybe
they have some other parts. They can build around. I do
like him as a head coach. He's won a Super Bowl if he can't
get it.
To Jacksonville, and I think Jacksonville needs to just
scrap the whole thing and start over. Probably.
I'm going to say Brian Day ball, just because I feel like
the Giants are desperate to break the chain of every two
years, firing a head coach. And we've seen
some modicum of self-awareness by John Mara and family in
bringing, in a GM. Other than the one, we thought it was
going to be what we thought was going to happen. Going into
the offseason
was Kevin. Abrams gets bumped up
into the Dave gettleman spot.
The mayor has continued to keep the ladle deepen, the spin,
the stew and stir. Turn it around instead. They hired Joe, Shane.
From the outside. They go get Brian table. I think Des Bois,
maybe in a good spot. And if it doesn't work out with Daniel
Jones is not going to be day balls fault.
They go find another quarterback. So I think he's going to get
more than two years,
which is if you if you can tell a new head coach, you're
definitely getting more than two years.
That's more than most teams will give a head coach right now.