Same here... Quinn is the least desirable candidate for me right now...
for sure, but it helps that most of the competition have shit for ownership that are prone to knee jerk firings.
I don’t want Quinn either, liked him as our D coordinator, just don’t want him as our head coach …
Yeah, I felt the same before the Cowboys/Packer game so I'm not basing it off that game...
according to reports,quinn is,nt being talked till thursday.
Yeah some media sources like Greg Bell is making him the favorite. Apparently him and John are friends and he's let it be known he wants the job.
Mike Salk was talking about this yesterday with Brock. The bottom line thinking on the advantage of hiring an up-and-coming OC to be a HC vs a DC is that the way of the NFL is now leaning so hard toward offense that if you have a bright-mind OC then it's just a matter of time before they get hired away. So you put the offensive guy in at HC, and that insulates you from that eventuality. If you hire the DC to be the HC, then you also have to get the right offensive mind to be the OC, and then you'll be back at that same place in 2 or 3 years if they are successful.
I won't hate it. Ben Johnson looks like a long shot and not likely to happen, Slowik would be interesting and looks like a top offensive coordinator but not a long resume but has that personality, character that would fit the culture according to reports. Vrabel has the experience and record, although he would need a really good OC.
You run the risk of the Peter Principle who ever you hire. Seems like a trend to hire upcoming young minds. Mike McDaniels was 38, Zac Taylor was 36 when hired as HC, Kevin O'Connel, Demeco Ryan, Kevin Stefanski all in their 30's when hired as HC I think. Heck John Harbaugh wasn't even a coordinator but a special teams coach when hired as HC. Definitely is a ton of risk with this hire because the Seahawks are at a crossroads after a decade plus of the Pete Era, what happens next is mega important, obvious the desire is for continued success but new HC hires have more failures then successes.
I disagree. Jim Harbaugh, Mike Vrabel, and Dan Quinn are all proven HC commodities WAY more so than these young coordinators who have never held the job. You may not want some or all of those 3 names, which is fine, but they have previous success as a HC and we know they are at the very least competent in that job.
Yeah, I've acknowledged that.
I do agree this is an important decision. And that's why I think it's imperative to mitigate the risk. Hiring the proven leader carries much less risk, in my view, than a 30-something 1 or 2 year coordinator. Get Harbaugh if you can, but if he is not interested then my pref is still Vrabel.
I'm not against retreads per say, after all Pete was a retread as was BB, Reid, McCarty, Bowles, Sean Payton, Doug Pederson and so on, but plenty of retreads have fallen flat also. I also see the attraction to grabbing a rising star early in a career. So much was made about Pete's age and many here have expressed the desire for someone more in tune with today's modern offense, a younger mind who install a offense that would create mismatches, scheme players open and yada yada.
