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There is supposedly a lot of talent at WR in this year's draft, so I don't expect them to spend a lot of money on a free agent WR.
I agree on Baker, I could not believe how much he has improved.
Can you summarize who said what about Slowik? I don't think anyone was happy when he was brought in, but just curious what was said.
Cooley (and perhaps Galdi also) said it was hard for the defensive staff to work when the DC kept getting overruled by the HC and the HC had moles like Slowik (and his son) on the defensive coaching staff. All said very matter-of-factly.
I think WRs are a crap shoot in the draft more than other positions. But depends on who is calling the shots for the player acquisitions. I know Cincy drafted a lot of their top skill position players, so if that was Gruden's doing I can see it.
Riley Cooper made himself some money this season. He might have even made Maclin expendable if Philly decides they can only pay one of their WRs that will be free agents this year. I'd take Maclin in a second.
Probably just for the experience, no way he takes that job even if offered. Lovie has final say and is for all intents and purposes the GM--that's less influence then he'll have here and he's suffered through multiple awful regimes just to get this opportunity.
It's not the first GM job he's interviewed for, and he'll eventually land one. But I agree with you he probably won't want the Bucs job since the coach will be making the final say on personnel. Brown probably has more influence than that with the Skins currently.
Not too surprising. I have heard that Gruden does quite a bit of power running, which is better with bigger offensive linemen. Shanahan preferred smaller, more athletic offensive linemen. There could be some big changes there. Cooley insists the OL will be viewed better than most think, but still expects one or two new OL.
The bit about using a fullback seems to fly in the face of what we saw on Hard Knocks. They cut John Connor in order to have a back up TE play fullback occasionally explicitly because they said they didn't intend to run many two back sets and the TE could play special teams.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1831756-a-week-in-the-life-of-bengals-offensive-coordinator-jay-gruden
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/football-insider/wp/2014/01/13/redskins-parting-ways-with-assistant-o-line-coach-chris-morgan/
That was my thought too - they kept Orson Charles over Connor. I only watched a few Bengals games this year, but whenever I saw them in I-formation in short yardage it seemed like they always put Peko (D-tackle with the crazy hair) in at FB. I think Gruden likes to be able to do a lot of things with his offense, but I never got the impression that they wanted to be a power based team.
x2MattFancy said:
I disagree, I think he'd take it if offered, from everything I have heard/read, he wants that GM title. Also, he would have more responsibility there than he currently has in Washington. He certainly would have more influence in Tampa. Sounds like a non issue though since Vital appears to be the favorite.
Robert seems like a smart guy, so I don't understand in what universe he thinks responding to fans criticism with a facebook rant is a good look. He obviously is concerned with his image. Ironically the best way for him to do this is to stop caring so much what people say and think about him and just let it go. He needs thick skin, people would respect him more.
Quickly becoming my fear too...I hope not, but think this may be the case. I think it's not done to be secret or sneaky, but to give the look as though it wasn't pre-determined from the word GO. There was rumor out there that the LBers coach from CIN was possibly going to be the DC. I hope they interview Horton the CLE DC.
Interview quesiton: If you become the special teams coach, would your unit finish last in every imaginable category?
Interesting
Not until this morning.
I'm with you. This is confusing. We keep hearing Has will definitely back, and he probably will, but it doesn't add up. I would like to see him gone, if only to get more of a fresh start. If they do keep him, he has had success in the past and did quite well with the D last year and they made strides this year. All this talk of Slowick and Shanahan forcing his hand with the D does at least make it interesting to see what he can do if he is running the entire unit.
I heard the other day that Shanahan is the one who was the big fan of the 0-deep defenses. Part of his influence was apparently shown in how often the D would line up without a safety back deep. Some stats on how often they did that would be nice, but that's what I heard.
