Keeping Rhule but replacing assistants

[Mr. Scot]

 

This idea has been floated around a couple of times, but is it truly practical?

Well...

Let's say you demand that Rhule fire some of his staff. If the choice of who stays and who goes remains his, then chances are he just fires the people with no prior connections to him, i.e. Pat Meyer, Brian Angelichio, Chase Blackburn, Don Johnson.

Except for Johnson (who's basically an assistant to an assistant), Rhule has replacements readily available to him on staff for all of those guys. He's also got a former member of his staff available in DJ Mangas. Mangas left for a spot on the LSU staff (WR coach, I think) but isn't being retained by new head coach Brian Kelly.

Jeff Nixon probably gets named OC in this scenario (or any other, to be honest) so you either leave him with double duty or backfill. Mangas might be an option for RB coach is Rhule wants Nixon to concentrate solely on the OC job. And ultimate the staff becomes more Rhulified than ever.

Does that leave us better off?

Deck chairs...Titanic...etc.

So then you say "Okay, force him to hire outside his own circle."

You mean like he did with Joe Brady?

Think about that for a moment. Can you imagine the interview process? The whole notion sounds awkward as hell.

So then have Fitterer, Morgan or someone else do the interviews, basically hiring guys to work under a coach that doesn't want them? Yikes

On top of all that, remember that Rhule turned down the Jets over staff control. Could forcing staff changes make him take off again? Maybe (and that's not the worst that could happen). But by the time all this comes to a head, have the other candidates all been hired? Quite possibly.

Oy

Bottom Line: The notion of forcing Rhule to make staff changes might sound good in theory, but in reality it likely isn't gonna work.

So if (as many of us fear) Rhule does get another year, it's something of an "all in" proportion.

And that...is terrifying

[SizzleBuzz]

6 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Let's say you demand that Rhule fire some of his staff.

Who constitutes "you"...??

[Raleigh PF]

Not really impressed with any of the coaches, especially along the offense. The OLine coach should never be employed again, except by Walmart maybe, and not along their front line.

But at the end of the day, it's the head coach who takes the blame when an entire half of the team plays like keystone cops. And he should be fired for it.

[Mr. Scot]

Depending on which staffs are fired (besides the two already done) there are certainly some good assistants set to come available.

I just don't see us actually getting any of them.

[kungfoodude]

[rayzor]

Don't want Rhule here. It would still be his team and that's the biggest problem.

[Jon Snow]

I think it will be his only option if he wants to stay.  It just depends on Teppers ability to sit through the inevitable painful to watch season.  Tepper could also let Rhule dance with the one that brought him so to speak and give him one last shot with his people and can them all when the dust settles.

Or he could just flush these turds and start over with someone more competent than Marty Hurny advising him.  That would be my choice.

[Mr. Scot]

30 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

Or he could just flush these turds and start over with someone more competent than Marty Hurny advising him.  That would be my choice.

Mine too.

I mean, is Tepper in denial? Does he just not get it? I'm not sure what to think right now.

[Jon Snow]

3 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Mine too.

I mean, is Tepper in denial? Does he just not get it? I'm not sure what to think right now.

I think he's committed,  just like Rhule.  He strikes me as the type that considers every variable effecting the situation and chooses which of many that will result in the outcome we are seeing. Were they known and predictable to Tepper? Did he have them as acceptable in the grand scheme of things? I guess we will know soon enough. 

[4Corners]

Absolutely not. No college coaches!!

[NYPantherFan]

I can see Tepper giving an ultimatum that he has to bring in an OC with NFL experience if he wants to keep his job. That's if Rhule doesn't figure it out on his own like Rivera eventually did. That is the only way he lives to see next season.

 

 

[L-TownCat]

If we’re keeping pudgy face then keep them all.  Go 0-17 and take back our single season consecutive losses record from the Lions.

[Jon Snow]

1 minute ago, L-TownCat said:

If we’re keeping pudgy face then keep them all.  Go 0-17 and take back our single season consecutive losses record from the Lions.

Nah they will win a few games and draft in the top ten as usual. 

[L-TownCat]

Just now, Jon Snow said:

Nah they will win a few games and draft in the top ten as usual. 

That was the Panthers of old.  This new batch looks like the group that could rival 01 and 10 for suck supremacy.