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I hope this is true. It will bring some much needed experience to the assistant coaching staff. A young Troy Calhoun jumping to offensive coordinator with only three years of NFL experience (and none at the coordinator level) concerns me a bit even though he will be simply implementing Kubiak's offense. Sherman and Kubiak are old buds from Aggieland.
 
Last I checked we dont exactly have the players to run the Denver scheme like it should be run. Sherman isn't going to be here for more than 2-3 years if he takes the job either. Coaching to the player's strengths (which he will do) until we got the proper personnel in here to run the Denver scheme looks like a nice option to me.
 
its also what happened with Capers, we are on the hook for his salary, any new money paid to him is less we have to pay. So instead of having him.

Sherman has like 3 million dollars left so, unless we offer him more per year, money means nothing.
 
jacquescas said:
Sherman has like 3 million dollars left so, unless we offer him more per year, money means nothing.
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I THINK I heard ( a couple of days ago) that Sherman released the packers from the obligation to pay him the 3 Mill. Not sure why, they said, but I don't remember.
 
aj. said:
...A young Troy Calhoun jumping to offensive coordinator with only three years of NFL experience (and none at the coordinator level) concerns me a bit even though he will be simply implementing Kubiak's offense...
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Cam Cameron also had 3 years in the NFL as QB coach before taking over the offense in SD. Scott Linehan became a NFL OC in 2002 with no NFL coaching experience. Kubiak himself was a NFL QB coach for one year in San Fran before becoming the OC in Denver.

Calhoun, 38, was an OC for six seasons at the collegiate level prior to landing a spot on the Bronco's staff. While Troy has 11 years of coaching experience total, it would likely be more had he not spent 6 years as an Air Force officer following his 4 years at the Academy.
 
I got nothing againts Sherman and if he comes here I wish him the best of luck in turning this ship around. I can understand him being an assistant head coach, because he would be giving advise to Kubiak and whatnot, however I feel he would be better suited to be a consultant. Thus he would be at an easier position to manuever and if he left our organization it would not damage the hierchy. I hope and pray he is familiar with the zone-blocking scheme, because if he isn't I simply don't understand why you would get him when you could pursue the one person who devised the scheme and applied it so well on two different teams. If Calhoun is OC it makes me question why isn't he ***. HC. I believe the Texans should still pursue Gibbs he IS without question the Zone-blocking Guru. As a matter of fact Kubes worked with him before and I just wish I knew why we haven't gone after Gibbs.
 
The Dream said:
I hope they don't bring Sherman here, as a Packers fan I can honestly say he single handley blew the Packers chances of going to the NFC title game a few years back when he chose to punt the ball, instead of going for it on 4th and inches......his decision making is suspect some of the times.
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Really.......because I thought it was their defensive blown assignment which allowed the eagles crappy receivers to convert on a 4th and 26 and Farve's horrically bad decision to just throw the ball up for grabs to two eagle defenders which iced the game. Speaking of throwing the ball up for grabs and making bad decisions, thats something Farve did all last year.
 
Sorry if this was posted, from kffl.com...

Texans | Sherman offered a position
Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:15:07 -0800

ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli reports the Houston Texans have offered former Green Bay Packers head coach Mike Sherman a position on their coaching staff. He was offered the role of assistant head coach/offensive line.
 
http://www.jsonline.com/packer/news/jan06/388255.asp

Green Bay - John Bonamego and Mark Duffner, two members of Mike Sherman's coaching staff with the Green Bay Packers, have landed coaching positions with other National Football League teams and it appears just a matter of time before Larry Beightol does as well.


On Friday, the New Orleans Saints announced the hiring of Bonamego as special teams coach. NFL sources said Duffner had agreed to coach linebackers for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

A source with the Detroit Lions said Beightol was "99.9%" assured of becoming offensive line coach under new coach Ron Marinelli. Beightol had interviewed for the same job with the St. Louis Rams and had conversations with the Houston Texans.

Meanwhile, a source said Sherman was en route to Houston today for an interview with new Texans coach Gary Kubiak. Sherman was offensive line coach at Texas A&M in 1992-'93 when Kubiak was beginning his coaching career as the Aggies' running backs coach.

Sherman, 51, is being considered for the job of offensive line coach and assistant head coach under Kubiak, who is 44. The Texans gave up a league-leading 68 sacks in 2005, 14 more than the runner-up team.

"Do I think he'd take it?" a source with knowledge of Sherman's situation said. "Oh, yeah. Why not? Why would you go down?"

Sherman had interviews for the head-coaching positions with the Saints and Buffalo Bills. He finished second in Buffalo to Dick Jauron and lost out in New Orleans to Sean Payton.

A source close to Sherman said his chances in New Orleans became diminished over his concerns about where his family would live in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The three youngest of his five children are ages 6, 12 and 17.

Sherman reportedly turned down chances to interview for offensive coordinator jobs with the New York Jets and the Bills.

If Sherman takes another job, the Packers would save money. As it stands now, they owe him $3.2 million in 2006 and '07. If, for example, he accepts a job that pays $600,000 in '06, the Packers still would be responsible for the remaining $2.6 million.

Earlier in the week, former defensive coordinator Jim Bates turned down an offer from the Rams worth about $1.2 million to be their defensive coordinator. Bates apparently preferred to join Kubiak's staff in Houston, but when Kubiak decided to look elsewhere Bates had to change gears.
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Lucky said:
Cam Cameron also had 3 years in the NFL as QB coach before taking over the offense in SD. Scott Linehan became a NFL OC in 2002 with no NFL coaching experience. Kubiak himself was a NFL QB coach for one year in San Fran before becoming the OC in Denver.

Calhoun, 38, was an OC for six seasons at the collegiate level prior to landing a spot on the Bronco's staff. While Troy has 11 years of coaching experience total, it would likely be more had he not spent 6 years as an Air Force officer following his 4 years at the Academy.
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....and Mike Sherman only had three years in the NFL before he got his head gig at GB. Whoop. The NFL is a little different than Ohio U and Wake Forest.

I'm fully aware there are counter-examples but that has nothing to do with the fact that Calhoun being promoted to coordinator with only three years experience in the NFL (and one of those was coaching defense) concerns me a bit. The fact that he's simply implementing Kubiak's system remedies that somewhat.
 
aj. said:
....and Mike Sherman only had three years in the NFL before he got his head gig at GB. Whoop.
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Whoop, indeed. What did the years of experience Pendry & Palmer had in the NFL do for this team? "Can he coach?", is the only question that need be asked.
 
The fact that they havent announced anything on Bates is a bit disconcerting. But maybe they are waiting until Monday? Dunno why they would.. but one can hope.
 
Lucky said:
"Can he coach?", is the only question that need be asked.
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Thanks for helping make my point, since that question has yet to be answered or proven at the NFL level because the book just opened on this guy - hence my 'bit' of concern. Just because the head coach thinks he's capable and a great guy doesn't mean squat. Been there, done that.
 
This is a good thing, but I am hesitant for a reason. Kubes is an offensive guy, I though the original plan was to allow him and Denver's O-Line coach, Dennison I beleive, to take care of the offense. This would work even better if we could bring in someone like Jerry Gray, an expreianced DC that would take the deffensvie responsibility of Kubes' hands... that would be perfect...
 
aj. said:
Just because the head coach thinks he's capable and a great guy doesn't mean squat.
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I think it means everything. Kubiak should be able to live or die with the coaches he wants to work with and the players he wants to coach. Just as Dom Capers did. Just as Cowher, Shanahan, and Parcells do.
 
run-david-run said:
This is a good thing, but I am hesitant for a reason. Kubes is an offensive guy, I though the original plan was to allow him and Denver's O-Line coach, Dennison I beleive, to take care of the offense. This would work even better if we could bring in someone like Jerry Gray, an expreianced DC that would take the deffensvie responsibility of Kubes' hands... that would be perfect...
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I'm still hoping Gray gets the DC job! It would be great to see what he can do with our young DB's.
 
Look at it this way:

If Kubiak doesn't pan out...we can promote Sherman and we then would have (1) A HC who has compiled a winning record with the Packers and several division championships with several playoff appearances, and (2) Sherman is already familiar with the organization by the time he would take over the HC job.

I am just amazed at the bash threads in regards to the Sherman offer, as well as toward the "pals" that Kubiak is reported to be bringing into the fold.

I guess you're only an NFL expert around here if you ridicule whatever move or potential move is about to be made or has been made.

A lot of you are treating Kubiak like he's a third grader with bed wetting issues who can't be trusted to do what he wants to do now that he's our HC. It's like you have a Capers hangover or something.

He lost the anchor to his offensive line (Rivera), he has a grandpa for a QB (Favre), and his RBs and WRs were injured all year long. No bullets, no bang-bang. He took that Packers team to several division titles and playoff appearances. The mere fact that the guy has credentials Capers never had (and I don't care about the miracle Panthers season, either) and the mere fact that he's bringing a wealth of head coach talent to an assistant-type role is awesome to me--Wouldn't you want someone proven in the NFL to be an assistant on your staff if he WANTS to be? We know he works well with Kubiak, and that's a big thing.

Hopefully Sherman will accept the offer and bring his A-game with him to Houston.
 
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