[RamsFanSince82]

[dieterbrock]

This is one of these deals where if Todd Haley is running the offense, what’s the point of Hue? Kind of like when Linehan hired Al Saunders...

Well it sure puts Cleveland in good shape to make Haley interim HC if the Browns play like the browns and they decide to make a move

[moklerman]

Well it sure puts Cleveland in good shape to make Haley interim HC if the Browns play like the browns and they decide to make a move

As bad as I've felt as a Rams fan over the years there's really no comparison to the Browns. How in the F do you keep a guy who's been as bad as Hue Jackson?

I can kind of see how he got his chances but the experiment has pretty clearly failed, hasn't it?

[moklerman]

https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/956054508563582976

This isn't directed at you RFS82 since you're just the messenger but what has Mike McCoy done to keep getting job opportunities? Am I not looking at it objectively or clearly? To me, it seems kind of obvious that he was only riding Peyton Manning's coat tails. It's one thing to be a wunderkind like McVay and turn a guy like Cousins into something but how is being Peyton Manning's OC or Tom Brady's OC or Aaron Rodgers OC worthy of getting a HC gig?

[dieterbrock]

As bad as I've felt as a Rams fan over the years there's really no comparison to the Browns. How in the F do you keep a guy who's been as bad as Hue Jackson?

I can kind of see how he got his chances but the experiment has pretty clearly failed, hasn't it?

I was a huge Jackson fan, thought he’d do great.
It’s unfathomable to me how he keeps his job at 1-31. I don’t care about the talent blah blah. 1 win in 2 years??
And it’s not like they play in a great division either.

[RamsFanSince82]

I've never heard of this guy.

[rams74]

This isn't directed at you RFS82 since you're just the messenger but what has Mike McCoy done to keep getting job opportunities? Am I not looking at it objectively or clearly? To me, it seems kind of obvious that he was only riding Peyton Manning's coat tails. It's one thing to be a wunderkind like McVay and turn a guy like Cousins into something but how is being Peyton Manning's OC or Tom Brady's OC or Aaron Rodgers OC worthy of getting a HC gig?

I don't think it's fair to characterize Mike McCoy has simply riding Peyton Manning's coattails. McCoy's claim to fame, and what catapulted him into a head coaching position, was when he tailored the Broncos offense to Tim Tebow's skillset, and made it work. He also got good production out of Kyle Orton. He was credited with being creative enough to adjust his offense to the relative strengths of his quarterback.

[RamsFanSince82]

This works for me.

[RamsFanSince82]

Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti admitted Friday that he considered firing head coach John Harbaugh this offseason, according to Jeff Zrebiec of the Baltimore Sun (Twitter links). “It was a consideration, but it wasn’t one I was inclined to make,” said Bisciotti.

Baltimore, of course, missed out on the postseason after allowing a last-second touchdown to the Bengals in its regular season finale. The loss pushed the Ravens to 9-7, and they missed a Wild Card berth thanks to tie-breakers which favored the Bills and Titans. Since that time, Baltimore has made a change at coordinator, as DC Dean Pees “retired” (perhaps not voluntarily) after leading the Ravens to a No. 3 defensive DVOA finish. Marty Mornhinwheg, the club’s offensive play-caller, is staying on despite Baltimore ranking just 21st in offensive DVOA.

While nearly every team that doesn’t make the playoffs likely “considers” making a head coaching change, Bisciotti’s statement is notable given both Harbaugh’s long run in Baltimore and the team’s recent lack of success. Harbaugh is currently the NFL’s sixth-longest-tenured head coach, as he’s been with the Ravens since 2008. During that time, he’s posted a record of 94-66, but Baltimore hasn’t been to the postseason since 2014. In the past three seasons, the Ravens have managed a paltry 22-26 record.

As Zrebiec notes, Bisciott did not say Harbaugh now has a “playoffs-or-bust” mandate for 2018. But given his acknowledgement that he nearly fired Harbaugh this year, Bisciotti seems unlikely to tolerate another campaign that doesn’t end with a postseason contest.

[Elvis]

https://www.dailynorseman.com/2018/2/5/ ... be-coached

Mike Tice to retire from coaching because “players don’t want to be coached”

Another former Vikings’ head coach could hang it up
By Christopher Gates@Gates_DN Feb 5, 2018, 11:07pm CST

While one former Minnesota Vikings’ head coach recently announced his retirement. . .and then promptly took it back a week later. . .another man that once patrolled the sidelines at the Metrodome appears to be ready to hang up his headset as well.

Mike Tice, who coached the Vikings from 2002 to 2005 (along with one game at the end of the 2001 season) has announced that he is retiring from coaching. He says he’s ready to move on from the coaching ranks because “players today don’t want to be coached,” according to a conversation he had with KFAN radio host Dan Barriero.

Tice has been involved with the NFL in some way for 35 years. He played quarterback at the University of Maryland, but converted to the tight end position in the NFL and landed with the Seattle Seahawks in 1981. He played for eight seasons in Seattle, and returned to the Pacific Northwest for two more seasons after a one-year trip to the other Washington to play with the Redskins. He then spent a few years in Minnesota and, following his retirement after the 1995 season, became the team’s tight ends coach.

Tice then coached the offensive line from 1997 to 2001 and, when Denny Green got fired/resigned before the 2001 season finale, Tice stepped in as the interim head coach. The Vikings hired him as the full-time coach in 2002, probably because Red McCombs thought he could get Tice to do the job for cheap.

In his four seasons as the Vikings’ head coach, Tice compiled a record of 33-34, counting the postseason. He was also the team’s head coach when the team’s infamous “Love Boat” scandal hit in 2005, which made a less-than-favorable impression on the team’s new owner, Zygi Wilf. Despite getting the Vikings to a 9-7 final mark in a season that started at 2-5 (with a backup quarterback after the career-altering injury to Daunte Culpepper), Wilf almost fired Tice before he could make it back to the locker room after the season finale at the Metrodome that year.

I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for Tice. I think he was the victim of lousy ownership that didn’t want to spend any money on anything, and was spiteful enough to trade Randy Moss away as his final “eff you” to the fans and the franchise after not getting the new stadium he wanted in the Twin Cities. . .and being unable to move the team anywhere else. In Tice’s final season, coach Steve Loney served as both the team’s Offensive Line coach and the Offensive Coordinator. That’s pretty ridiculous. . .I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen another team do that. I think under an actual owner that cared about the product on the field, Tice could have been more successful.

Tice has had some other jobs coaching offensive lines and even spent a year as the Offensive Coordinator in Chicago, but never got another head coaching opportunity.

So, if this is the end of the road for Mike Tice, we’d like to wish him the best in his future endeavors.