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Coordinators

sprtsfanatic said:
Didnt Marinelli sign on to be someones head coach today....the Jets I think??? someone correct me if im wrong.
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Eric Mangini (Pats DC) is the new coach for the Jets.
 
oh..my bad..thanks for the distinction...heard the name...couldnt remember what it was exactly, but thanks for clearing that up.
 
Lions | Marinelli close to being hired
Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:52:39 -0800

Nicholas J. Cotsonika, of the Detroit Free Press, reports the Detroit Lions are close to hiring Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive line coach Rod Marinelli to be their head coach, according to an NFL source. Lions officials were unavailable for comment. Marinelli was scheduled to arrive in Detroit late Tuesday, Jan. 17, for a second interview.
 
bah... well.. honestly I wasnt that interested in Marinelli anyway. Just didnt know much about him.
 
a very realistic possibility for OC is former packer HC mike sherman....if yall read todays chronicle. jim gray and the DC from tampa are the candidates for the DC job in htown.
 
TexanFanInCC said:
a very realistic possibility for OC is former packer HC mike sherman....if yall read todays chronicle. jim gray and the DC from tampa are the candidates for the DC job in htown.
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I would like Mike Sherman here as well, does his offensive scheme with with Kubiak philosophy? I would love Gray here as well, but not him can't forget about Green Bay's ex Defensive coordinator as well. Can't remember his name
 
O.G. said:
I would like Mike Sherman here as well, does his offensive scheme with with Kubiak philosophy?
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I doubt that a former head coach would feel good about having to work under an inexperienced head coach/ clipboard holder.

I'd bet his preference would be to work under another experienced head coach, the way Capers worked under Coughlin after being peers. It doesn't sting quite as much.
 
OC- Dennison, Walsh, or B. Shottenheimer, Sherman, and a long shot of Turner
DC- Jerry Gray, Jim Bates, some defensive guys from denver or san diego off of Phillips staff

Jerry Gray right now is a big favorite if he wants to come here, but I am a bit skeptical of him. From what I have heard and watched he is a solid teacher, but his defenses are quite inconsistent. Look at the last 3 years he was coaching, yeah he had good defenses other than this year, but they always played inconsistent, either being good at the beginning of the season and tailing of or bringing it around the end like 04. Keeping your unit consistent is something that will be very big to Kubiak and that will hurt Gray as far as things go.
 
Erratic Assassin said:
I doubt that a former head coach would feel good about having to work under an inexperienced head coach/ clipboard holder.
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They coached together at A&M from 1992-1993. They are close, so the only question to me is what offense would he bring? His philosophy is different than Kubiak's, so that would be the deal breaker for me.
 
Zephyr said:
They coached together at A&M from 1992-1993. They are close, so the only question to me is what offense would he bring? His philosophy is different than Kubiak's, so that would be the deal breaker for me.
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I'm with you Zeph, I do not think he'll a hard time with it. If we succeed, he'll be a HC candidate again in no time.
 
TexanFanInCC said:
a very realistic possibility for OC is former packer HC mike sherman....if yall read todays chronicle. jim gray and the DC from tampa are the candidates for the DC job in htown.
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Are you serious.....it mentioned Tampa's DC to come here possibly? No way. That's kind of hard to swallow. I'd take him over Gray any day. He's got a damn near immaculate resume and has put up some incredible defenses together. The guys' old though....Monte Kiffin is like damn near 70 years old. Another thing is Tampa thinks very highly of him and will most definitely pay top dollar to keep him.

To be on the safe side...I'm not even going to ponder on him being our DC....too good to be true. Although....Jerry Gray is a lot younger and would probably be a better acquisition in that respect. That fountain of youth would come in real handy right about now...:D
 
according to profootballtalk.com (which is admittedly an NFL rumor site)


"we've heard that Kubiak already has lined up much if not all of his staff."


:twocents:
 
chuckm said:
according to profootballtalk.com (which is admittedly an NFL rumor site)


"we've heard that Kubiak already has lined up much if not all of his staff."


:twocents:
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Which if true means to look around for conspicuous non-signings--folks who should be hot in the market but aren't being announced as signed.
 
chuckm said:
according to profootballtalk.com (which is admittedly an NFL rumor site)


"we've heard that Kubiak already has lined up much if not all of his staff."


:twocents:
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Haven't we all :rolleyes:

Not a big fan of profootball talk.

I like the Gray selection because he has deep experience in both the 34 and 4-3. Didn't Buffalo switch back to the 4-3 this past year? Either way I understand he can run the 34 if it makes sense (I think it does) and has experience transitioning a D back to the 4-3 (although somewhat unsuccessfully). When Buffalo was in the 34 if they had even a semblance of an offense, those teams would have been playoff teams. Either way, they say you learn from your mistakes and I know Grey's a good learner, teacher and playcaller. I also think his expertise in secondary coverages will be very helpfull in tackling our future opposition: Peyton Manning and the Colts and Vince Young and the Titans ;)

The TB DC is not coming here. The reference was to Marinelli who is headed to the Lions as their HC.
 
infantrycak said:
Which if true means to look around for conspicuous non-signings--folks who should be hot in the market but aren't being announced as signed.
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That could mean Gray since he is out in Buffalo without a doubt. The only thing that worries me about the Sherman rumor is that the guy will get a gig again and you risk losing the continuity on the staff if he is one and done.
 
I really hate throwing my ignorance out here, I really do. But here it is, can't learn if I don't ask right? I think I understand the philosophy of both the 3-4 or 4-3 defense plays but how do you determine which is the beneficial for us of the two in any scenerio? (not sure that's clear)!
 
nflnutswife said:
I really hate throwing my ignorance out here, I really do. But here it is, can't learn if I don't ask right? I think I understand the philosophy of both the 3-4 or 4-3 defense plays but how do you determine which is the beneficial for us of the two in any scenerio? (not sure that's clear)!
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Looking at your personnel of which currently....is our best scheme for an immediate impact as that's what we've had and drafted for since the birth of the franchise. Since we have Indy in our division and history shows how Manning has trouble against effective 3-4 schemes.....I think we should stay put and make the neccessary modding to our corp and go from there.
 
I thought Kubiak was going to bring Dennison with him from Denver and make him the OC. Wasn't that what the Denver Post was speculating last week?
 
sorry to stir the pot even more, but I wouldn't mind seeing Mike Martz emerge as our OC. Don't get me wrong, I didn't care for him as a head coach because of his inability to make the correct critical coaching decidions, but I think he would make one hell of an OC if he would not mind the demotion from HC. His high powered pass attack, and K's run game would compliment each other.
 
Who do yall think will be running the offense and defense for the Texans. We will most likely run Kubiaks offense, and switch over to a 4-3 scheme or perhaps cover 2, but who will be running our defense?

Any favorites?
 
Jerry Gray is a possibility at DC, he was a hot prospect for head coach at many teams but kind of faded once we somewhat chose Kubiak, so I wonder if he had unofficially agreed to come here. Some coaches that I would have valued as lesser coaches got head spots over him, so I wonder if he did make a verbal agreement with us and has to wait until Kubiak comes in to officially come on here. I really don't know for OC though, I think Kubiak may hang on to play-calling duties since he did that in Denver and the OC would have a reduced role, but I don't know.
 
I think it was John McClain in Chronicle that indicated Denver's O line coach as a possibility for coordinator IF Denver wanted to be nice to KUBES. I think his opinion that probably will not happen. Even if he did come to H town with Kubes I understood that HC will basically run the offense.
 
Meloy said:
I think it was John McClain in Chronicle that indicated Denver's O line coach as a possibility for coordinator IF Denver wanted to be nice to KUBES. I think his opinion that probably will not happen. Even if he did come to H town with Kubes I understood that HC will basically run the offense.
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There was an article in a Denver paper that said Shanahan had already said he could take his assistants. Take it for what's it worth.
 
I AM AN ACTIVE DUTY SOLDIER CURRENTLY STATIONED IN VIRGINIA, AND AM WANTING TO KNOW WHAT THE LATEST TEXAN COACHING RUMORS OR CONFIRMATIONS ARE. :stirpot: I LIVED IN HOUSTON UNTIL MARCH OF 05 WHEN I CAME BACK ON ACTIVE DUTY, AND WANT TO KEEP UP WITH THE "HOME" TEAM.
 
MorKnolle said:
Jerry Gray is a possibility at DC, he was a hot prospect for head coach at many teams but kind of faded once we somewhat chose Kubiak, so I wonder if he had unofficially agreed to come here. Some coaches that I would have valued as lesser coaches got head spots over him, so I wonder if he did make a verbal agreement with us and has to wait until Kubiak comes in to officially come on here. I really don't know for OC though, I think Kubiak may hang on to play-calling duties since he did that in Denver and the OC would have a reduced role, but I don't know.
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This is who Im banking on coming in as our DC. We got a very good look at his defensive philosophies and I think he could really help us out. he's very agressive, and can EFFECTIVELY blitz.
 
napalm451 said:
I AM AN ACTIVE DUTY SOLDIER CURRENTLY STATIONED IN VIRGINIA, AND AM WANTING TO KNOW WHAT THE LATEST TEXAN COACHING RUMORS OR CONFIRMATIONS ARE. :stirpot: I LIVED IN HOUSTON UNTIL MARCH OF 05 WHEN I CAME BACK ON ACTIVE DUTY, AND WANT TO KEEP UP WITH THE "HOME" TEAM.
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There will be no confirmations until after the Super Bowl unless Denver loses to Pittsburgh this weekend. Until then, we won't know who is going to comprise head coach Gary Kubiak's staff, except Joe Marciano and Kippy Brown, who the Texans have decided to retain.
 
Adam Schefter of NFL network reported on NFL network (TV) that the Texans will be in the mix for Jim Bates former Miami and Packer defensive coordinator.
 
Gilly said:
sorry to stir the pot even more, but I wouldn't mind seeing Mike Martz emerge as our OC. Don't get me wrong, I didn't care for him as a head coach because of his inability to make the correct critical coaching decidions, but I think he would make one hell of an OC if he would not mind the demotion from HC. His high powered pass attack, and K's run game would compliment each other.
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Or just conflict with each other.

Kubiak will want to run his system, and the OC will have to support his philosophy. We had Palmer and Capers already.
 
ArlingtonTexan said:
Adam Schefter of NFL network reported on NFL network (TV) that the Texans will be in the mix for Jim Bates former Miami and Packer defensive coordinator.
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Sounds good, he's done some good things, particularly with a poor GB defense that sounds a lot like ours. I believe Jerry Gray has the inside track, but Bates would also be a great choice IMO.
 
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