Do you see the decision of Bowlen to persuade the incoming coach to keep a lot of the offensive coaches as a sign that he’s leaning toward one of the D-coord and not McDaniels or Garrett (Dennison wouldn’t be an issue).

at the same time, the key offensive staff staying on does tend to reduce the added value of the “Offensive” candidates relative to the “Defensive” ones. The more I think about this selection the more I believe that the new DC may be more important than the HC. We have a great offensive system and players in place (minus one or two cogs); we have a great personnel group in the Goodmans/Xander (at least it seems that way). What we are sorely lacking is a sound defensive system and the players to run it.

how are we not throwing that dude not out the back do’?

Didn’t we talk about this in a thread a few weeks ago? Tuten is a demon on conditioning but maybe he needs to take a close look at his scheme to see if that process isn’t what’s leading to all these injuries.

im surprised no one tried to match up the dwarfs with the coaching candidates… :)

…and Bowlen decided to offer the job to Spags, we could still have quite a wait ahead of us.

I know there are restrictions on when you can do interviews. If Denver cut the list and wanted to have second interviews with a couple people, they would not be able to talk with Spags until the Giants lose (or maybe the week after the conference championships). But I don’t know if they can straight out make him an offer.

I really can’t see why any team is allowed to interview candidates and hire coaches until the end of the NFL year (Super Bowl or Pro Bowl or whatever the offical date is). Sure you can talk to coaches on your team for post-season evaluations. And obviously you can fire them. Obviously, it is better for a team to have a coach (and a direction) but it is not something so crucial that the extra month would be a killer. (In fact you could argue that it would even the playing field. Right now good teams without coaches can afford to wait for the coaches from playoff teams to become available while bad teams are more prone to hire quickly so they have a direction and can placate the fan base by showing they are trying to make progress) If the NFL created this moratorium, it would keep the focus on the playoffs and it would help remove unneeded distractions from the playoff teams.

Our offense WILL rock for sure!

If we improve our play selection, particularly in the red zone, and use our slot reciever and tight ends more effectively! And who was responsible for play selection this year? None other than our resident boy genious Bates.