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Robert Saleh / Mike LaFleur


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Obviously these two are going to be hot names, but I think these two allow us to avoid a "rebuild" and give us a chance to compete in 2020.

Saleh is having a LOT of success in SF(first rounders across the defensive line help).  But he's been a coordinator for 3 years now, has been a part of some pretty good defenses(SF, Jacksonville, Seattle, and Houston).  Probably not much different in scheme from what we went after with Quinn.

Then you have Mike LaFleur.  Has been with Shanahan and his brother since 2014 in Cleveland.  His next step is a coordinator position.  But he was part of the 2016 run with us.  Has been working in that scheme for 6 years now.  

 

After the Carolina game, I was thinking Quinn might be able to save his job.  The players like him and he's had success.  Unfortunately, the Super Bowl collapse, the failed replacements at OC(Sark was better than DK), and then this season's completely failure, I don't think anyone really thinks keeping him is for the better at this point.  So why not bring in two guys who can change the culture to what we wanted it to be in 2015, without the stigma over their heads?  

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1 minute ago, Rings said:

I like Saleh a lot, but I don't want another defensive minded HC.  If you land a great offensive minded HC and get a good DC, you can have that combo together for a long time as OC's are getting promoted over DC's at a 19-7 ratio over the last four years.

Oh for sure, I don't disagree necessarily.  But, when I look at our situation in hindsight, the mistake in my opinion was going after Sarkisian instead of LaFleur for the coordinator.  If we promote from within and try to keep that tree here in Atlanta, we have more consistency offensively. Even if we lose our coordinators.

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11 minutes ago, Rings said:

I like Saleh a lot, but I don't want another defensive minded HC.  If you land a great offensive minded HC and get a good DC, you can have that combo together for a long time as OC's are getting promoted over DC's at a 19-7 ratio over the last four years.

What he said.

Lets have Ryan under the same offensive play caller for the rest of his career 

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1 minute ago, JD dirtybird21 said:

Yea, maybe Kubiak. Even McCarthy isn’t a bad idea

I know Kubiak said he had no interest in being a head coach again, maybe getting him for a coordinator position would be a possibility.  But to me that hire seems more a let Kubiak run his own offense, and leaves us with a defensive minded HC.

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6 minutes ago, poutlipper said:

I know Kubiak said he had no interest in being a head coach again, maybe getting him for a coordinator position would be a possibility.  But to me that hire seems more a let Kubiak run his own offense, and leaves us with a defensive minded HC.

You never know man. Money talks. So does power 

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Just now, JD dirtybird21 said:

Yea, maybe Kubiak. Even McCarthy isn’t a bad idea

I'm personally not a McCarthy fan.  I feel like he didn't adapt well with the times and had a lot of stubborn tendencies, but that's just me.  I feel like we have seen what our personnel looks like in an early 2000's style offense with Dirk, I want someone who is going to bring something new to 2020.

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1 minute ago, poutlipper said:

I know Kubiak said he had no interest in being a head coach again, maybe getting him for a coordinator position would be a possibility.  But to me that hire seems more a let Kubiak run his own offense, and leaves us with a defensive minded HC.

In that scenario I wouldn't hate it because we would have no risk of losing Kubiak to a HC gig, it just would be how long he would want to coach.

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6 minutes ago, Rings said:

I'm personally not a McCarthy fan.  I feel like he didn't adapt well with the times and had a lot of stubborn tendencies, but that's just me.  I feel like we have seen what our personnel looks like in an early 2000's style offense with Dirk, I want someone who is going to bring something new to 2020.

A couple things...because I wasn’t a big McCarthy fan either. But, I admire that he’s taken the season off and has been studying the game and adapting to be a HC coach again. That shows that he’s actually willing to learn from his mistakes and evolve with the game rather than “stubbornly” think his way is perfect. Also, I think his relationship with Rodgers was pretty rough and he unfortunately had to be the fall guy. Rodgers seems like a very tough player to coach. Rodgers is pretty arrogant and stubborn himself. Ryan however is one of the most coachable QB’s in the league. Rather than fight McCarthy, he would actually support him and echo his message to the team. Is Ryan as talented as Rodgers? No. But he does seem like the better QB for McCarthy. 

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1 minute ago, JD dirtybird21 said:

A couple things...because I wasn’t a big McCarthy fan either. But, I admire that he’s taken the season off and has been studying the game and adapting to be a HC coach again. That shows that he’s actually willing to learn from his mistakes and evolve with the game rather than “stubbornly” think his way is perfect. Also, I think his relationship with Rodgers was pretty rough and he unfortunately had to be the fall guy. Rodgers seems like a very tough player to coach. Rodgers is pretty arrogant and stubborn himself. Ryan however is one of the most coachable QB’s in the league. Rather than fight McCarthy, he would actually support him and echo his message to the team. Is Ryan as talented as Rodgers? No. But he does seem like the better QB for McCarthy. 

I can respect that.  This is likely the last HC Ryan/Julio combo will have, we can't afford to miss.

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2 minutes ago, Rings said:

I can respect that.  This is likely the last HC Ryan/Julio combo will have, we can't afford to miss.

I think that's the big thing for me.  I want someone who is obviously going to have success the next 3-5 years, but also able to make that transition to the new QB when the time comes.  I look at how Andy Reid was able to move from Smith to Mahomes, and I want to have someone that is going to be able to do that so that we hopefully don't miss a beat.  I don't want that off year while we look for a new QB, I want that guy that can sit on the bench for a year or two and then takeover.

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3 minutes ago, poutlipper said:

I think that's the big thing for me.  I want someone who is obviously going to have success the next 3-5 years, but also able to make that transition to the new QB when the time comes.  I look at how Andy Reid was able to move from Smith to Mahomes, and I want to have someone that is going to be able to do that so that we hopefully don't miss a beat.  I don't want that off year while we look for a new QB, I want that guy that can sit on the bench for a year or two and then takeover.

That will only work if the HC is an ELITE offensive mind OR if the QB we draft is essentially just like Ryan

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13 hours ago, poutlipper said:

Obviously these two are going to be hot names, but I think these two allow us to avoid a "rebuild" and give us a chance to compete in 2020.

Saleh is having a LOT of success in SF(first rounders across the defensive line help).  But he's been a coordinator for 3 years now, has been a part of some pretty good defenses(SF, Jacksonville, Seattle, and Houston).  Probably not much different in scheme from what we went after with Quinn.

Then you have Mike LaFleur.  Has been with Shanahan and his brother since 2014 in Cleveland.  His next step is a coordinator position.  But he was part of the 2016 run with us.  Has been working in that scheme for 6 years now.  

 

After the Carolina game, I was thinking Quinn might be able to save his job.  The players like him and he's had success.  Unfortunately, the Super Bowl collapse, the failed replacements at OC(Sark was better than DK), and then this season's completely failure, I don't think anyone really thinks keeping him is for the better at this point.  So why not bring in two guys who can change the culture to what we wanted it to be in 2015, without the stigma over their heads?  

As much as people didn't like Sark, I was hoping that we would have kept him because Ryan was at least successful in his second year with him and if we keep with the "injuries prevented this defense from succeeding" we wouldn't have had to had Ryan adjust to a new scheme and it would have been consistency for this offense instead of starting over again, which we will have to do AGAIN next year.

In the scenario Mike LaFleur makes sense if someone is looking to keep this offense style going again IMO

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35 minutes ago, octoslash said:

Well I sure wouldn't have wanted Rodgers yesterday lol.   

103 yards  :lol:

We will find out in a few weeks when Ryan is up against them, if Rodgers just played poorly or the SF defense was just that good.  I'm hoping that since I'm on the West Coast and so many SF fans here, we can win that game, but I just don't think it was just Rodgers fault last night.

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