Sean McDermott anyone?

[Fritz]

if they would rather play in a dome or in a big city, then why do these guys even come here in the first place for a visit?

if these guys are telling the truth, then they had no desire in the first place of playing here and we were just used to get more money

maybe i'm way off here. but it sure seems that most of the times most teams don't let guys walk after interviews. is that wrong?

and it seems like we never sign a guy right away when he comes in for an interview

Right, like Minnesota did with Brad Childress! Didn't let him leave town 'til he'd signed a contract!

Yay Brad Childress! Yay Vikings!

they made the playoffs with their coach

we didn't

Okay, Red. Here's the $64,000 question: who would you rather have as your coach: Brad Childress or Mike McCarthy?

Take your time.

[Brohm]

Arrington wanted to play against the Redskins twice a year and AV wanted to kick in a dome. Two things GB could not offer.

[pbmax]

I do know about you, but that first half by the Eagles D was giving me second thoughts.

You can't make decisions by what you see in one half of football, bad or good. Gm's who do that end up fired.

Should have thrown an emoticon in there as your sarcasm detector failed to deploy. Better have that checked out.

PFT has Gregg Williams shopping the Packers deal back to the Saints. His info was that Sean Payton gave up $250,000 cold to up their offer. And Gunakor, almost all coaches have agents. Williams is Marvin Demoff, formerly most hated agent before Drew Rosenhaus. He may be back up there if this is true.

In general, I don't think you want people who do not want to be here. So for Williams, even if he shopped it, good riddance. Red may have a point however, now that there is no Wolf, Homlgren, Reggie or Favre, the price of doing business as the Green Bay Packers may have gone up until they are regularly in the playoffs.

[red]

if they would rather play in a dome or in a big city, then why do these guys even come here in the first place for a visit?

if these guys are telling the truth, then they had no desire in the first place of playing here and we were just used to get more money

maybe i'm way off here. but it sure seems that most of the times most teams don't let guys walk after interviews. is that wrong?

and it seems like we never sign a guy right away when he comes in for an interview

Right, like Minnesota did with Brad Childress! Didn't let him leave town 'til he'd signed a contract!

Yay Brad Childress! Yay Vikings!

they made the playoffs with their coach

we didn't

Okay, Red. Here's the $64,000 question: who would you rather have as your coach: Brad Childress or Mike McCarthy?

Take your time.

where's the none of the above answer?

[Bub]

I don't know....i'm not sold on McD. I want someone who's experienced at running the whole show, not take a flier on someone that a couple have a man crush on because they are under studies under decent coordinators.

[Gunakor]

I don't know....i'm not sold on McD. I want someone who's experienced at running the whole show, not take a flier on someone that a couple have a man crush on because they are under studies under decent coordinators.

Well that's where great ones come from - they start as understudies of great coordinators. And make no mistake, Jim Johnson is a great coordinator.

[Lurker64]

I don't know....i'm not sold on McD. I want someone who's experienced at running the whole show, not take a flier on someone that a couple have a man crush on because they are under studies under decent coordinators.

The Jim Johnson defensive coaching tree has had some success in promoting position coaches to DCs though. Steve Spagnulo went from the Iggles secondary coach, to their LB coach (a lateral move), to the Giants defensive coordinator (to the superbowl), to a head coaching position. So it's not as though this tree has not borne fruit.

[Joemailman]

Sean Who? It's Capers.

[Partial]

I don't know....i'm not sold on McD. I want someone who's experienced at running the whole show, not take a flier on someone that a couple have a man crush on because they are under studies under decent coordinators.

The Jim Johnson defensive coaching tree has had some success in promoting position coaches to DCs though. Steve Spagnulo went from the Iggles secondary coach, to their LB coach (a lateral move), to the Giants defensive coordinator (to the superbowl), to a head coaching position. So it's not as though this tree has not borne fruit.

I don't think using the one guy is an example of a tree. It does form a line segment, though

[cpk1994]

if they would rather play in a dome or in a big city, then why do these guys even come here in the first place for a visit?

if these guys are telling the truth, then they had no desire in the first place of playing here and we were just used to get more money

maybe i'm way off here. but it sure seems that most of the times most teams don't let guys walk after interviews. is that wrong?

and it seems like we never sign a guy right away when he comes in for an interview

Right, like Minnesota did with Brad Childress! Didn't let him leave town 'til he'd signed a contract!

Yay Brad Childress! Yay Vikings!

they made the playoffs with their coach

we didn't

Yet the Packers made the playoffs with their coach sooner than the Vikings did. It took Childress 3 years to get to the playoffs despite all the FA brought in. If you actually would rather have Secret Squirrel as coach, you need to have your head examined.

[Fritz]

I do know about you, but that first half by the Eagles D was giving me second thoughts.

You can't make decisions by what you see in one half of football, bad or good. Gm's who do that end up fired.

Should have thrown an emoticon in there as your sarcasm detector failed to deploy. Better have that checked out.

PFT has Gregg Williams shopping the Packers deal back to the Saints. His info was that Sean Payton gave up $250,000 cold to up their offer. And Gunakor, almost all coaches have agents. Williams is Marvin Demoff, formerly most hated agent before Drew Rosenhaus. He may be back up there if this is true.

In general, I don't think you want people who do not want to be here. So for Williams, even if he shopped it, good riddance. Red may have a point however, now that there is no Wolf, Homlgren, Reggie or Favre, the price of doing business as the Green Bay Packers may have gone up until they are regularly in the playoffs.

IF the above bold-faced line is true - and who knows - then this would mean that Williams was MM's first choice, and Capers is correspondingly, not.

I hope that is not so. My sense - and this is just from whatever vague and unsubstantiated reports are out there - is that Williams' ego is as big as a house.