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Jim Fassel, watching the Giants shut down Brady & Company ---------> 
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Steve Spagnuolo -- Welcome to Washington! (1 Viewer)
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KnowledgeReignsSupreme
Footballguy
Awesome performance.
Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
Gonna be interesting watching his Skins blitzing the piss outta Eli twice a year. 
Jason Wood
Zoo York
Spags star sure is rising. Hard to believe he'll be a head coach before Ron Rivera; who was the first Eagles assistant to really seem to be on the path.
Tanner9919
Footballguy
Ron Rivera?! the same guy who continually got outcoached and was let go by Chicago and wound up as a LB coach in SD!?Spags was brilliant! I do think NY pays him BIG bucks to keep him around, ala Dallas with Garrett..
Jason Wood
Zoo York
Spags won't stick around IMHO. No team is going to match Snyder if he wants his guy, and it's a team Spags knows really well, and has a ready made staff in place [something to consider if he's going to take a HC job this late in the offseason]. The Garrett analogy is a flawed one because it's clear Jones views Garrett as the future head coach in New York. There's no way Coughlin is going anywhere anytime soon, and it's all but impossible to imagine Spags' star will ever be as bright as it is this moment.
NY/NJMFDIVER
Footballguy
I've got seriously a thousand bucks to keep Spags here! Pass the hat Giant fans. We won't hold him down forever, but one more year at least please! Don't join either of those freak shows in DC or Oakland. Wait for a better job than to get in bed with these ##### owners. Your day will come, and you should build a team. Take over KC next year when Herm is booted, or St. Louis or Minny, somewhere with some class, don't get in bed with these jagoffs!
We need ya Spags! We love you too!!! PAY THIS MAN HIS MON-NEE!!!!
We need ya Spags! We love you too!!! PAY THIS MAN HIS MON-NEE!!!!
loose circuits
Footballguy
main difference with Garrett is that he has ties to Dallas. Spags, that I know of, does not have ties to giants. He's not gonna take less to stick it out with them
BigSteelThrill
Footballguy
If only they could get Osi, Strahan, Tuck and company.
QBs were lucky Kiwanuka wasnt playing.
QBs were lucky Kiwanuka wasnt playing.
fatness
Footballguy
This is kind of funny to me as a Redskin fan. I'm still convinced Snyder wants to hire Jim Fassel. He almost did about 10 days ago and then backed off due to massive public opinion against the hiring. I think he was waiting for the resistance to Fassel to die down, and has gone through other interviews since that time mostly for show. I think the Spagnuolo interview also was mostly to be for show, and to open a door to a guy they may want to talk to again in future years. Now that Spagnuolo's defense held down the Patriots in front of a huge audience, there's real pressure on Snyder for the first time to hire the guy.
I like watching Snyder squirm.
I like watching Snyder squirm.
TankRizzo
Footballguy
My thoughts exactly. It's pretty apparent that Snyder wants a puppet and it looks more and more like Fassel is more than happy to be that guy. The only way I see Spagnuolo winning any points w/ the Redskins is if during his entire interview he does nothing but talk about how great Dan and Vinny are.
redman
Footballguy
I have my doubts about this hire by the 'Skins and not because I don't think he's the right kind of guy to target.
If you're Spags, coming off of a great win on a huge stage with your unit and your scheme prominently featured, why go to a team that won't even let you hire your own staff? This guy can write his own ticket in a year if he's patient. Yeah, the 'Skins can offer him a boatload of money, but I still have my doubts here.
If you're Spags, coming off of a great win on a huge stage with your unit and your scheme prominently featured, why go to a team that won't even let you hire your own staff? This guy can write his own ticket in a year if he's patient. Yeah, the 'Skins can offer him a boatload of money, but I still have my doubts here.
Dodge
Footballguy
Spags will have his pick of teams next year, why would he go to a team that's not built from the inside out, an owner who consistently trades picks for free agent busts and who's team is constantly in salary cap trouble, and then if you don't mind all of that, you go into a place where your whole coaching staff is picked for you.
Why would you do that?
Why would you do that?
redman
Footballguy
The bolded part is the only part that's right.
Jason Wood
Zoo York
A bird in hand...Spags has the chance to go to a team he knows well, for lots of $$$$, coming off a playoff appearance even though it's young QB was hobbled. Considering most job openings come when woeful teams are looking to rebuild, I hardly think it's as easy as "I'll get a better offer next year."
redman
Footballguy
As bad as the already-built staff is (IMHO), he couldn't know another team's roster better than he knows the 'Skins, and it's certainly not a bad situation from a team building standpoint. He would certainly be handsomely paid, and he even worked on the 'Skins staff in the early 80's under Gibbs for a short time when he was just starting off in the NFL. It could happen I guess, but again it would greatly bother me to be hired where a staff was already in place. That's a major negative IMHO.
redman
Footballguy
That thought has occurred to me too, however the life of an NFL head coach seems too short to be willing to give away a year in building your team and coaching staff. He'd practically be starting over from square one in 2009 if he made any major changes to that staff.
And if he doesn't take a head coaching job now, he'd be back at square one in 2009 anyway.
redman
Footballguy
Square one in terms of building, but not square one in terms of the patience and track record with his team. Ask Cam Cameron how fragile that can be (not that I expect a 1-15 performance from the 'Skins in 2008). Again, maybe it works out, maybe it doesn't, but I think we can agree that this is far from ideal.
