This may make some fans' heads here explode

[Sydla]

Philly has reached out to Lincoln Riley to be their new head coach. Their GM has a decent relationship with him.

 

[LACowboysFan1]

Some AFC team's fans' heads exploded when Nick Saban was hired by Miami.

Waste of heads.

Riley's an unknown as an NFL head coach. Hasn't even accepted the job.

I'll keep my head in one piece, thanks..

 

[Uncle_Hank]

Some AFC team's fans' heads exploded when Nick Saban was hired by Miami.

Waste of heads.

Riley's an unknown as an NFL head coach. Hasn't even accepted the job.

I'll keep my head in one piece, thanks..

Nick Saban did a decent job with those awful Miami rosters. I would have quit that job too.

Lincoln Riley is no Nick Saban.

 

[darthseinfeld]

Philly has reached out to Lincoln Riley to be their new head coach. Their GM has a decent relationship with him.

He has his QB there. Its not considered a great job right now, but that has to be a plus for Riley.

However, if I am a credible HC, I stay far away from Howie. Too shrewed of a politician and Im going to take the fall for what doesn't work

 

[Sydla]

He has his QB there. Its not considered a great job right now, but that has to be a plus for Riley.

However, if I am a credible HC, I stay far away from Howie. Too shrewed of a politician and Im going to take the fall for what doesn't work

This tends to be my view of this as well. Now maybe Riley would be intrigued because of Hurts and maybe he doesn't want player personnel control and would let Roseman basically make all the choices, but it still seems like a situation that would eventually lead to chaos down the road like it did with Pederson.

Roseman is a brutal career tactician. If you believe the stories up here in Philly he's been cold blooded in his rise. Banner brought him in and he quickly rose through the ranks (stabbing people in the back on the way up the chain) eventually getting to close to Lurie. It was rumored it was Roseman who then started planting seeds in Lurie's head about how Banner was an issue pointing to some friction between Reid and Banner. He then pushed Reid out and brought in Chip Kelly. Kelly tried to seize power and got it and Roseman is said to have worked to undermine him (granted Chip didn't help himself). After Kelly got fired, Roseman had a triumphant return to the GM job, brought in Pederson. Now that the team is struggling, once again Roseman has found another scapegoat for some of his failings. So if I were a coach, I'd be weary of taking a job where the GM is so close to the owner and has a history of stabbing people in the back to save his own hide.

 

[darthseinfeld]

This tends to be my view of this as well. Now maybe Riley would be intrigued because of Hurts and maybe he doesn't want player personnel control and would let Roseman basically make all the choices, but it still seems like a situation that would eventually lead to chaos down the road like it did with Pederson.

Roseman is a brutal career tactician. If you believe the stories up here in Philly he's been cold blooded in his rise. Banner brought him in and he quickly rose through the ranks (stabbing people in the back on the way up the chain) eventually getting to close to Lurie. It was rumored it was Roseman who then started planting seeds in Lurie's head about how Banner was an issue pointing to some friction between Reid and Banner. He then pushed Reid out and brought in Chip Kelly. Kelly tried to seize power and got it and Roseman is said to have worked to undermine him (granted Chip didn't help himself). After Kelly got fired, Roseman had a triumphant return to the GM job, brought in Pederson. Now that the team is struggling, once again Roseman has found another scapegoat for some of his failings. So if I were a coach, I'd be weary of taking a job where the GM is so close to the owner and has a history of stabbing people in the back to save his own hide.

I used to post at general NFL forum with tons of Eagles fans during the Reid and Kelly years. Ive heard all sorts of stories from them about how Machiavellian Roseman is

 

[Blackspider214]

Meh. Lincoln Riley looks good in college because he can pretty much just out talent the other team on a weekly basis. OU dominates the Big 12 and makes their defenses look silly. He pretty much just took over Bob Stoops' empire and kept the car on the road while in cruise control. He's nothing special. But I get it, these college coaches will always be the "hot" name at the time for any head coaching vacancy.

 

[Denim Chicken]

If Riley is stupid enough to go to Philly, I'm not worried about him.

 

[Flamma]

This tends to be my view of this as well. Now maybe Riley would be intrigued because of Hurts and maybe he doesn't want player personnel control and would let Roseman basically make all the choices, but it still seems like a situation that would eventually lead to chaos down the road like it did with Pederson.

Roseman is a brutal career tactician. If you believe the stories up here in Philly he's been cold blooded in his rise. Banner brought him in and he quickly rose through the ranks (stabbing people in the back on the way up the chain) eventually getting to close to Lurie. It was rumored it was Roseman who then started planting seeds in Lurie's head about how Banner was an issue pointing to some friction between Reid and Banner. He then pushed Reid out and brought in Chip Kelly. Kelly tried to seize power and got it and Roseman is said to have worked to undermine him (granted Chip didn't help himself). After Kelly got fired, Roseman had a triumphant return to the GM job, brought in Pederson. Now that the team is struggling, once again Roseman has found another scapegoat for some of his failings. So if I were a coach, I'd be weary of taking a job where the GM is so close to the owner and has a history of stabbing people in the back to save his own hide.

Yeah, I listen to the Philly radio stations, Roseman is certainly not a popular dude. But I don't think Wentz is going anywhere. And of Riley was going to be intrigued by a quarterback, I doubt it's going to be in Philly.