Yasinskas talks down Edwards

[beastson]

Pat smoked before he wrote that

[Sempay24]

Pats a nib nab

[panthers55]

I suspect Edwards will be on our staff if he wants to be, He is exactly what Fox wants. I read an article about why Cunningham left KC as defensive coordinator. Apparently Cunningham favored a man coverage approach with aggressive blitzing. It conflicted with Edwards approach which was passive weak zones and a bend don't break philosophy.

Damn!!!!

After reading that I would not like Edwards here at all!!! Almost guarantees he will be if he wants to though.

I'm rooting against it!!!

http://www.kansascity.com/160/story/994889.html

[Mr. Scot]

I suspect Edwards will be on our staff if he wants to be, He is exactly what Fox wants. I read an article about why Cunningham left KC as defensive coordinator. Apparently Cunningham favored a man coverage approach with aggressive blitzing. It conflicted with Edwards approach which was passive weak zones and a bend don't break philosophy.

Damn!!!!

After reading that I would not like Edwards here at all!!! Almost guarantees he will be if he wants to though.

I'm rooting against it!!!

http://www.kansascity.com/160/story/994889.html

That's definitely different than the coaching background he comes from (Dungy/Kiffin) or some of his prior statements, but it would apparently suit Fox.

At this rate, he wasn't coming as anything higher than a DB coach anyway. Gantt thinks he isn't coming at all.

My first choice for DC was, and still is, McGinnis. I'd have taken herm, but after reading that I feel better that he'd be a DB coach if anything.

[Upper Deck West End Zone]

ESPN: NFC South

Don't know that I buy his argument.

That's the biggest load of balls that he's ever written, and that's saying something. Let's take a look at this sentence:

"Although Fox isn't generally unpleasant, he says almost nothing to the media."

Translation: Fox says nothing to me because I can't write and I can't report and I just make it up at least 90 per cent of the time.

Fox says a ton during his show on Monday night and also will talk when he's on Sirius.

[panthers55]

That's definitely different than the coaching background he comes from (Dungy/Kiffin) or some of his prior statements, but it would apparently suit Fox.

At this rate, he wasn't coming as anything higher than a DB coach anyway. Gantt thinks he isn't coming at all.

My first choice for DC was, and still is, McGinnis. I'd have taken herm, but after reading that I feel better that he'd be a DB coach if anything.

I totally agree on McGinnis. Almost assures we will both be disappointed when he doesn't even get a good look. The Titans surely have a good defense. I would like McDermott as my first choice. Jim Johnson is one of my favorite 4-3 DCs. Someone from his lineage who had the same philosophy but is much younger would be ideal. Exactly the guy we need to groom for the future.

[Mr. Scot]

I totally agree on McGinnis. Almost assures we will both be disappointed when he doesn't even get a good look. The Titans surely have a good defense. I would like McDermott as my first choice. Jim Johnson is one of my favorite 4-3 DCs. Someone from his lineage who had the same philosophy but is much younger would be ideal. Exactly the guy we need to groom for the future.

Two worries on McDermott:

- might have all of Johnson's aggressiveness without his wisdom and experience

- could be a one or two year rental, ala Del Rio

That said, word is that McGinnis wants to be a head coach again too. He's been mentioned in connection with a couple of jobs (the Titans DC job obviously being the most likely). He was a candidate for the Green Bay job that Capers got, among others.

[panthers55]

Two worries on McDermott:

- might have all of Johnson's aggressiveness without his wisdom and experience

- could be a one or two year rental, ala Del Rio

That said, word is that McGinnis wants to be a head coach again too. He's been mentioned in connection with a couple of jobs (the Titans DC job obviously being the most likely). He was a candidate for the Green Bay job that Capers got, among others.

I like the fact he is popular. Don't know I would want someone who no one else wants. As for wanting to be a head coach, I would hope he would want to keep advancing. And if he does, it means he would have been successful while he was here.

[frash.exe]

Two worries on McDermott:

- might have all of Johnson's aggressiveness without his wisdom and experience

- could be a one or two year rental, ala Del Rio

That said, word is that McGinnis wants to be a head coach again too. He's been mentioned in connection with a couple of jobs (the Titans DC job obviously being the most likely). He was a candidate for the Green Bay job that Capers got, among others.

Although, I will say,

If we hire him and through the next 1-2 years it doesn't really work out with Fox, yet the defense shows marked improvement, we could promote him.

[Snake]

They will prob promote internally. Wait.......

[mountainpantherfan]

They will prob promote internally. Wait.......

You do realize that Crossman has a defensive background? If there could be anything worse on this forum than the hate for Trgovac it would be the hate for Crossman as DC.

[raleigh-panther]

Has Ron Rivera been offered a HC job yet?

I believe if Fox comes out with that passive defense again, he's gone.

I don't care what statistics there are, and sometimes when it suits him, they are Fox's friend and other times not, we have not had a defense that could stop teams consistently when it counted for years.

This year, going against, NE, Philly, the Giants, Dallas, Arizona, and Minn, they best find a choach who get the players on this defense to hit somebody NOT 10 yards past the line of scrimmage.

I watch the defenses of the Ravens, Steelers, year after year, and just wonder, why can that not be our team.

[Kevin Greene]

"I've gone through three years of playing zone defenses because I was loyal to (Chiefs head coach) Herm Edwards and that's what he wanted," Cunningham said. "People here in town knew I was different than that. My idea is to put a lot of pressure on the quarterback, it always has been and always will be.

"I think Jimmy knows that, and I think he's a lot like that, even though he was a lot more zone conscious this year than he's ever been. I think the two of us will sit down and decide what's the best thing for us to do. But my idea of coaching defense is explosive, it's aggressive and it's to go after people."

I wonder where in the NFL this same scenario might have been carried out this past year. Hmmmm....

http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2009/01/gunther_cunningham_has_defensi.html

[magnus]

I don't think Herm's vocal nature would be a problem. Those were as HC - you never heard from him under Dungy.

and make no mistake, there's nothing wrong with playing fundamental defense with a strong front four and cover 3. It took us to the playoffs three times. This ideal that we must become a blitz team, or that we'll play man, bump and run, is no different than what people were saying in 2001. That's not what got us to where we got. It's also not why the defense was starting to decline.