Do you feel shotty was the best available?
The coordinators from the lions had greater potential in my opinion.
Heard the buy out was 10m for Belichick.
first of a;ll, just take Ben Johnson out of this equation he chose Chicago that's where he wanted to go he wasn't setting up anymore interviews the man almost had his entire staff hired before they even announced he had the job he literally was still planning on playing a playoff game and that week leading up to that loss he already had called almost all the coaches he had in mind to build out his staff to let them know to be prepared... Obviously the contract details had to be worked out but Ben Johnson only had one choice just like Mike vrabel only had one choice those two were not even consideration for the Cowboys because they weren't considering the Cowboys..
And don't say that sad there's a reason why he wanted to go back into that division where he's comfortable and he saw a younger team that may be more pliable right now in a area where they're in need of a superhero to change the nature of their history..
So let's just take those two out of the running.... Yes Aaron Glenn would have been a nice interview just to see if he even had interest over here but when you say the word potential I have to snicker
I'm betting people thought that Nick Saban Bobby petrino Chip Kelly and for sure everyone in here was angry when Jerry didn't consider bringing Urban Meyer here and they were all one and done you're trying to tell me they didn't have potential I mean you're trying to tell me that these weren't big names that at least one of them should have made it in the NFL... And they didn't just not make it they were terrible they were absolutely horrible..
So no schottenheimer doesn't feel like a better choice than those other guys but they're all on the same footing they're starting from the ground up they're having no advantage I mean that lions team was loaded then I mean loaded with talent and they also had the supporting cast the other members of the staff the others coaches and everything you have to add it all up they're not bringing that with them they don't get to bring what made them good...
So when you say potential and better choice no on the outside yes on the surface that's what it looks like but you gotta remember that when Dan Campbell built that stuff they were a bunch of nobodies including him and this same stuff was said about him the schottenheimer blowback when the lions hired him everyone looked at each other and went Yep they're just gonna keep being bad we don't even know where they thought about this 'cause nobody else was interested in any of these guys remember that remember that this week has been said about schottenheimer and some of the coaches were bringing in that the rest of the league has no interest in them?
For that reason alone we should give schottenheimer a shot and it's too late to keep debating this he literally is our head coach they're building out the staff it's too late to ponder...
So let's just see how it works out then we can talk about if it was a mistake or not we get to see the next two or three seasons of all those first time head coaches and we'll see how it works out like which one was the very best hire..
I went on a side note I find it ironic that all these teams that now have these huge holes in them according to you these names are so big now they're gone you're trying to tell me now they're not replaceable in my opinion how are they replaceable if they're superstars in the making which by the way the irony here is the people that Dan Campbell are replacing those two with I've never heard of them they're not big time coordinators they're new again he's bringing in people he's comfortable with same thing is gonna happen with schottenheimer staff they're gonna build it out with what he's comfortable with and we'll see how it works out but most of these Staffs that are being replaced they don't look like they're being replaced with better options they're just more names..
And I'm betting the ones that have more talent on the teams that just lost their coordinators they're pretty comfortable that they're gonna plug in most any coach because it was the talent versus it wasn't all coaching.. You want another ironic example united tell me that Kelly Moore went from not being wanted here laughing him out of the charger's job saying the eagles we get to see them just collapse because he's over there Oh no they went all in they gave him all the talent he needed and now he looks like a genius..hmm
do we really believe if he goes to the Saints the Saints have a bad salary cap issues they don't have a whole lot of talent over there that he's gonna instantly have more success than schottenheimer here?.