How To Get An NFL Coaching Job Interview
Every big industry has this stupid problem of being followers of the newest trend. A breakthrough movie happens and all of a sudden every movie studio is trying to make something similar and cash in on that breakthrough, seemingly unable to realize that it broke through because it was being neglected as a potential solution. A new car comes along that serves an underdeveloped or neglected market and then everyone starts making them. A new genre of video game shows up and now it’s everywhere. The NFL is no exception to this and “Copycat League” has long been thrown around as a thing.
It makes the Sean McVay coaching tree stuff even more hilarious. The Rams took a chance on a young prodigy type and it has worked out very well. So now that McVay is a big deal, what are teams doing? Hiring young hot dudes who do fun offensive stuff to be head coaches. That’s kinda fun, honestly. It’s nice to see the stodgy old retread club get upturned for sexy young bros. Fresh blood and concepts are a welcome change.
At the same time it’s kind of absurd because it is not like this is going to work for most of the teams. They don’t even seem to be looking for fresh young minds around the league, it’s fresh young minds who worked with Sean McVay. Like they all expect these babies to suddenly be Sean McVay or better, ignoring that McVay is likely an outlier of sorts. McVay was outstanding enough to get looked at by a franchise in desperate need of a stark change from the previous defensive dirt-pounding Fisher regime. He may have opened the door for some more youth hires but…buyer beware on that stuff. McVay might have succeeded simply because he got lucky on the hirings and he’s a dynamite worker who really earned it.
One or more of these McVay imitations are going to fail miserably. I just hope it doesn’t make the league go back to old retreads when it happens.
I’ve read and watched all of Eyeshield 21 – might throw in for the Miami gig.
How do you feel about Fangio, who is probably the only person in the league that can claim to be old but not a retread?
I love Fangio and he was overdue for a HC gig, excited to see what he can do
I think the Fangio hire is good. I think what Elway has done with the team puts Fangio in a bad place though. I hope he does well.
You guys see McVay’s girlfriend?
To be fair, ask a Rams fan (if they had the option) who they would hire as head coach: Matt LaFleur, or Jeff Fisher. The answer would almost certainly not surprise you.
They’d likely only pick LaFleur because no one really knows what he can do. I mean, if he succeeds in Green Bay, Aaron Rodgers will get most of the credit most likely for doing Aaron Rodgers things. The obsession with hiring people associated McVay is dumb. At least with the Patriots staff they have SUSTAINED success. Yeah they all pretty bomb once they leave Papa Bill’s nest. But LaFleur left McVay and didn’t exactly light the world on fire for that Titans offense. You think Zac Taylor is the reason why Ryan Gosling suddenly figured out how to play good football?
Most of these teams are making bad hires with not enough proof to justify the move. I think Sean McVay is a pretty good coach. He also lucked into a fantastic situation with a blue chip QB and a top 3 RB, not to mention some guy named Donald or something on defense….you may have heard of him. Having Wade Phillips to help with defense certainly doesn’t hurt. None of these other guys are walking into a situation like that really. Seriously, if it wasn’t for Jeff Fisher, the Rams wouldn’t be good right now. They sucked just enough under him to get good players. Hell, if they win the Super Bowl, I think they should give him a ring for all his contributions.
As dumb as it is, it’s still a better idea than “Hire someone from the Patriots’ staff”, which teams haven’t yet figured out doesn’t work. Belichek is a great coach, obviously, but he’s *not* a good teacher, and his assistants only look successful because of him, not the other way around. (Although it is amusing to watch people like Matt Patricia try to be surly and grumpy like Belichek without actually, you know, being successful.)
Oddly, this is the exact opposite of Andy Reid, who is great at teaching his staff to be successful, despite the consistent, glaring holes in his own gameday coaching.
I first read “assistant” as “assassin”. Which, seeing what they do to their respective teams, is appropriate.
No doubt
Yeah – unless you are Nick Saban, player or coaches always look worse away from Bellicheck.
Can’t be bothered to come up with your own jokes now, huh?
i see you’re working with a new setup, artwise. care to tell us about it? i, for one, am always interested in the technical aspects of your work. your linework seems ..i dunno, sharper in terms of individual strokes.
I assume you’re aware of the Cardinals’ press release when they hired Kliff Kingsbury, where they actually mentioned “Kingsbury is friends with Rams coach Sean McVay…” before deleting it due to the ensuing internet ridicule
I still can’t believe this wasn’t an Adam Gase cartoon. He looks like a serial killer or a batman villian, or that he just found out where babies come from.
I guess if you hit a receiver har enough you override pass interference