I just hope there's a little more pressure built into the scheme.
Inside The Birds: 'You're Gonna See More Blitzes'
Here's a snapshot of what they said:
Duce Staley
Geoff Mosher: "It's pretty clear after you've promoted him to as high as assistant head coach, but then passed on him twice as head coach, it's pretty clear that he's reached his ceilng here. Not his ceiling [overall], but his ceiling here. I know Duce wants to be a head coach. People tell me all the time they believe he will be a good head coach. So, his options now ... are pretty limited. I know there's some talk about Chicago. I know he has a relationship with Matt Nagy, but you can't look at the Chicago situation as being good. I think his best bet may be trying to be a college head coach."
Adam Caplan: "I put myself in his shoes. Look, first time you get passed up and you say, 'OK, I get it, I'll learn from this." But the second time? And just the way it went down you weren't totally satisfied with Josh McDaniels, so you brought Sirianni in and then you Sirianni. One could read into it: how serous of a candidate was [Staley]?"
Shane Steichen
Adam Caplan: "I know Curtis Modkins interviewed [for offensive coordinator]. Steichen did a good job under very difficult circumstances. He got promoted to permanent offensive coordinator last year, did a great job in terms of offensive structure to help out Justin Herbert. I would say if you really study the Chargers' offense it started to struggle a little bit. The way it was explained to me was it started to get stale, it wasn't that good. I know Keenan Allen got hurt late in the season. They had some offensive line issues. Anthony Lynn is a very conservative coach, by nature. That may have had something to do with it. Overall, [Steichen] did a solid job under very difficult circumstances."
Jonathan Gannon
Caplan: "Here's the deal. A very good coaching source said to me Jonathan Gannon is the defensive coordinator candidate like Brandon Staley was for head coach. He was the hottest young candidate to be defensive coordinator. If he does a good job here he's going to be a head coach somewhere in the three years. In fact, two years. I got it from one guy who said to me, 'I'm telling ya, this guy is special. Philly is gonna love him.' He's going to run a 43 front. He's got some Mike Zimmer stuff in him, some [Matt] Eberflus. We're gonna see some Cover 2. Obviously, double-A Gap blitzes. He's got a lot of influences here. You're gonna see more blitzes, I promise."
Mosher: "A person me that he's aware that Jeffrey Luie knew about who Gannon was and wanted Gannon here. So I'll just start connecting dots. If that was a guy Sirianni talked about in the interview as someone he wanted to bring in as defensive coordinator, that prob helped his cause."
Other coaches
Caplan: "Looks like [Jeff Stoutland] is coming back. A couple of coaching sources told me this is happening. This is a heck of a get for [Sirianni]."
Mosher: "Guys need to know what their futures are going to be. There are some coaches who, as of Sunday night, had not yet talked to [Sirianni] who are on the staff. They want to know. He's got to kind of speed this process up a little bit."
Caplan: "[Kevin Patullo] worked with quarterbacks before with the Jets. He was actually receivers coach before [in Indianapolis] before Mike Groh got there. I'm told the title is not settled but it doesn't matter because it's the same thing: he's the passing game coordinator or passing game specialist. He's an RPO guy, that's really important here. A Colts source told me he's going to be Sirianni's right-hand man."
Carson Wentz
Caplan: "As we first reported a couple weeks ago, a lot of the head-coaching candidates were asked about Wentz and what their plan would be, but I would tell you a couple of sources told me they were never told that he was definitely going to be the quarterback."
) the Colts went out & acquired Rivers to start over Brissett. They were happy in 2020 to base an offense entirely around a QB with 0 movement ability.
. As you can see, it was common knowledge Rolen was sensitive. Same with Schmidt who was actually much like Wentz in how he’s viewed here so far 
