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Tank said:
Well what other coaching tree are they from? lol Mikey Mac was on Harbaugh’s staff for 9 years I think. All 4 years of Minter’s NFL experience before going to Harbaugh west was under Harbaugh east.
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Isn’t Mike Mac the first successful HC to come out of harbaughs staff? If I’m remembering this correctly, then you just don’t have enough head coaches coming out of Baltimore to even have a harbaugh tree. At the rate it’s going, Macdonald is going to be the father of his own coaching tree.

The defensive philosophy that makes MM head coach material, is his and his alone, it’s not harbaugh’s, if it was harbaugh’s then his teams wouldn’t suck so bad at running the scheme without Mike Mac on the sidelines. Mac built this scheme, mastered it, and used it to great success across many teams at every level, and harbaugh tried to replicate it with his own pick at DC and failed so badly it got him fired.

If the defensive coaches coming up that are running Mac’s defense, do so successfully, then it will in fact be Mike Macdonald’s coaching tree built on his X’s and O’s, all harbaugh did was hire him and use his scheme.

To have your own coaching tree, you gotta have a system in place that is the foundation of “why this coach will make our team competitive” and coaches will bring that system with them to new jobs. Harbaugh has no such system, he was a manager.
 
Looking at the remaining 4 Head Coaching vacancies.........

Bills: This feels like it will blow up in their face, especially after their owner's mess of a press conference AFTER promoting Brandon Beane. Davis Webb feels like the pick here, but if they hire Brian Daboll, man the NFL couldn't add enough rules for this to not blow up in the Bills face.

Browns: I honestly don't even know at this point where to begin here. If you ask me, I think Cleveland panics and just promotes Jim Schwartz to Head Coach. This way, he stays in Cleveland, they don't see him go elsewhere and because he's the only guy who will take the job. Defense stays in tact but again, it will all come down to who the QB is and what their offensive staff would look like under Schwartz.

Cardinals: Raheem Morris, Anthony Campanile & Mike LaFleur are apparently the favorites according to Dianna Russini. If they fired Gannon just to hire Raheem Morris.... man Kyler Murray might be wishing he just perfected playing Baseball instead. Now of course Kyler Murray may not be here next season so they may look at Mike LaFleur who can develop a new rookie QB. Anthony Campanile is interesting, because he's a rising defensive coordinator who might be worth taking a shot on but they just went through this with Gannon. My guess is Mike LaFleur as they look to the McVay coaching tree to turn this franchise around.

Raiders: I honestly think Mike McDaniel ends up getting announced as the Head Coach of the Raiders. If the only competition is the a division rival where he would be a OC, Mark Davis & Tom Brady will pony up the money to make him a Head Coach now rather see him go somewhere else next year after a potential good year in Los Angeles.
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
You trippin if you don’t think Denver is real.
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Yea they got probably the best combined fronts in the league. Insane they have all those guys under contract and still a ton of cap left. Imagine they get a great additional Wr threat via the loaded draft or FA - or even a trade like AJ Brown. They will be a problem for us unless we drastically improve our lines which I have meh faith in
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
Isn’t Mike Mac the first successful HC to come out of harbaughs staff? If I’m remembering this correctly, then you just don’t have enough head coaches coming out of Baltimore to even have a harbaugh tree. At the rate it’s going, Macdonald is going to be the father of his own coaching tree.

The defensive philosophy that makes MM head coach material, is his and his alone, it’s not harbaugh’s, if it was harbaugh’s then his teams wouldn’t suck so bad at running the scheme without Mike Mac on the sidelines. Mac built this scheme, mastered it, and used it to great success across many teams at every level, and harbaugh tried to replicate it with his own pick at DC and failed so badly it got him fired.

If the defensive coaches coming up that are running Mac’s defense, do so successfully, then it will in fact be Mike Macdonald’s coaching tree built on his X’s and O’s, all harbaugh did was hire him and use his scheme.

To have your own coaching tree, you gotta have a system in place that is the foundation of “why this coach will make our team competitive” and coaches will bring that system with them to new jobs. Harbaugh has no such system, he was a manager.
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Harbaugh worked back when he was first hired because he was seen as one of the most analytically driven coaches at the time. Now the Ravens are bottom 10 when it comes to analytical-driven play calling.

Remember the time period before the Ravens second Super Bowl? Harbaugh was in the weeds and exploited rules multiple times that the following season the NFL would have to vote to change those rules. He gave the Ravens an advantage in multiple places that not many other teams could, and that used to make up for some bad play-calling and bad coaching, even though it still frustrated the hell out of a lot of the roster. That even includes plays like the safety in the Super Bowl to take off as much time as possible before punting to SF.

It has felt like that Harbaugh left the team after that Super Bowl. He hasn’t given the team the advantages he used to. That’s why I agree with Steve that Harbaugh should’ve taken a year off to rejuvenate and refocus. I do hope him the best in NY, but this is a move that should’ve happened back in 2018.
 
The Bills will be a super attractive spot with Josh. They always performed well with McDermott. I think it will take a lot from the first two years of the new HC to maximize the roster that they have to get to a Super Bowl.

If I was a Bills fan, I’m not sure I’m comfortable with any HC left on the board.
 
Does the Rooney Rule applies to hiring coordinators as well?
 
Grim said:
I don’t think Denver will be anywhere close to where they are this year
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I just don’t see any possible reason to feel that way. They still got room to grow. Bo Nix and Sean Payton are a dream pairing, he’s running Payton’s offense so well. Their defense is loaded. They’re a nicely built roster, have space to improve in the offseason, good young qb, and very well coached.

If Bo didn’t get hurt they’d be my SB favorites right now.
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
I just don’t see any possible reason to feel that way. They still got room to grow. Bo Nix and Sean Payton are a dream pairing, he’s running Payton’s offense so well. Their defense is loaded. They’re a nicely built roster, have space to improve in the offseason, good young qb, and very well coached.

If Bo didn’t get hurt they’d be my SB favorites right now.
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Well, I believe they’re in a tough division that could get a lot tougher. I also think that a lot of their success was off of luck. Go look at their games and you’ll see they had some wins but even those some of those were ugly ass wins. Like very close margin of victory wins.

I think Broncos are an overrated team, just like I do the Texans (most overrated) and Patriots (decent amount overrated but they’re in a better spot than Broncos)
 
Hello all. Just made an account here. I usually sit on the sidelines but I couldnt help myself after the epic miss by the Steelers hiring McCarthy. I love this entitled franchise finally being brought down to size by poor ownership. Welcome to the real world. Now you can dwell in the world of retread coaches and 43 year old qb's.
 
Purple Haze said:
Hello all. Just made an account here. I usually sit on the sidelines but I couldnt help myself after the epic miss by the Steelers hiring McCarthy. I love this entitled franchise finally being brought down to size by poor ownership. Welcome to the real world. Now you can dwell in the world of retread coaches and 43 year old qb's.
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Thanks for joining. That shit was halarious huh, I went straight to the Steelers forums to see
 
And just to throw my choice for OC into the mix. I'm thinking outside the box and would love for us to hire Charlie Weis Jr. His dad won 4 Super Bowls with New England as OC and mentored him. He had the #2 total offense in all of college last year at Ole Miss...averaging almost 500 yards a game in the SEC. If we're going young and swinging for the fences for the future...give me Minter, Weis and maybe Schumann from Georgia as DC. The Eagles tried to get him as DC last year but he decided to stay at Georgia. Ravens should try and get him this year and build a young, strong core of coaches that can grow together and rule the division for years.
 
Grim said:
Well, I believe they’re in a tough division that could get a lot tougher. I also think that a lot of their success was off of luck. Go look at their games and you’ll see they had some wins but even those some of those were ugly ass wins. Like very close margin of victory wins.

I think Broncos are an overrated team, just like I do the Texans (most overrated) and Patriots (decent amount overrated but they’re in a better spot than Broncos)
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Yeah the Broncos felt like they had a horseshoe shoved somewhere with all those 4th quarter wins. I know they have a talented defense and Bo can make some good throws but I also feel like they benefited from some teams falling apart vs earning those wins. I will give their defense some credit though in forcing turnovers from Josh Allen, something our defense hasn't really been able to do(and even 2023 we didn't get any turnovers in either game in the postseason). But also the Giants were having their way with them... the Giants.
 
Oh, and i know Im rambling now....sorry about that but the slam dunk hire would have been Brian Flores for DC but he re-uped with the Vikings. Can you imagine how he feels now being passed over for the Steeler job by McCarthy? The best tool for success is motivation and he would have had it in bunches every year when we played the Steelers.
 
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