Coaches On The Hot Seat

[SudsMcBucky]

Cowboys hire OC Brian Schottenheimer as HC.

And Michael Irvin is THRILLED with the choice.

[Fritz]

They probably know they have a couple of years of pain ahead. Why not let Carroll get them through them?

Try to get a QB developed and then pass it off in a couple of years to the next hot coordinator.

Speaking of that, Ben Johnson's hiring of his offensive coordinator Declan Doyle is a real head-scratcher to me. Only two years coaching in the NFL? As a tight ends coach? Maybe Johnson sees him as the next prodigy and wants to milk him for more ideas about the offense, and for a 28-year-old, it's a golden opportunity even if he doesn't call plays.

But man, that's a thin resume he's got.

[Joemailman]

Speaking of that, Ben Johnson's hiring of his offensive coordinator Declan Doyle is a real head-scratcher to me. Only two years coaching in the NFL? As a tight ends coach? Maybe Johnson sees him as the next prodigy and wants to milk him for more ideas about the offense, and for a 28-year-old, it's a golden opportunity even if he doesn't call plays.

But man, that's a thin resume he's got.

He actually has 6 years. Before being hired by Sean Payton as Denver's TE coach in 2023, he was hired by Payton in 2019 as an offensive assistant for New Orleans in 2019. I would assume Payton speaks highly of him. Still a big jump though.

[Joemailman]

Tom Pelissero
@TomPelissero

Former #Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy has decided to focus on the 2026 hiring cycle and will not coach in the NFL this season, sources tell me and @RapSheet

McCarthy, who has made the playoffs 12 times in 18 seasons, is expected to be a strong candidate a year from now.

Seems nobody wants to coach a team (Saints) that is 60 million over the cap.

[Fritz]

Seems nobody wants to coach a team (Saints) that is 60 million over the cap.

But . . . but . . . the salary cap is just a made-up accounting thing! It can be cooked forever!

[texaspackerbacker]

Clearly, the Saints didn't do a very good job of that cooking/manipulating the way the Packers, Niners, and a lot of other teams do.

[Joemailman]

Clearly, the Saints didn't do a very good job of that cooking/manipulating the way the Packers, Niners, and a lot of other teams do.

They just took it way too far. At some point you have to bite the bullet a little bit to get out from under that situation. Packers has a total of 107 million in dead cap in 2023 and 2024 combined. Now they're in good shape.

[texaspackerbacker]

Yet the Packers didn't take a drastic dip. Neither do most teams that live on the edge of the cap. If the New Orleans situation is a mess, it probably has other causes, just like a lot of other teams that have no cap problems. It's probably about 50% good or bad management and 50% good or bad luck.

[run pMc]

Yet the Packers didn't take a drastic dip. Neither do most teams that live on the edge of the cap. If the New Orleans situation is a mess, it probably has other causes, just like a lot of other teams that have no cap problems. It's probably about 50% good or bad management and 50% good or bad luck.

The Packers were seriously strapped against the cap in the 2023 season (Rodgers on the cap, Bakhtiari hurt) and were stuck with Rudy Ford and Jonathan Owens as starters. They didn't have space to sign players. That was then, they took their medicine and are now in good shape. NO has never really done that and eventually the music will stop and they will have to spend a season or three letting that spending unwind. Meanwhile they will likely be a very very bad team because they won't have room to sign or extend players.

[texaspackerbacker]

The Packers were seriously strapped against the cap in the 2023 season (Rodgers on the cap, Bakhtiari hurt) and were stuck with Rudy Ford and Jonathan Owens as starters. They didn't have space to sign players. That was then, they took their medicine and are now in good shape. NO has never really done that and eventually the music will stop and they will have to spend a season or three letting that spending unwind. Meanwhile they will likely be a very very bad team because they won't have room to sign or extend players.

Yet they still made the playoffs and barely lost to the Niners. Owen and Ford didn't seem like all that bad players.

[ThunderDan]

$50 Million in Cap space gets you another Jenkins, McKinney and Jacobs will room to spare.

[Fritz]

With that kind of money you could also pay for some acting lessons for Love so he can get more flags like Floppy Mahomes does.

I wonder if GM's ever say to themselves, when they have cap space like this, "Well, I suck at drafting such-and-such a position, so maybe I should sign a free agent at that spot."

[pittstang5]

With that kind of money you could also pay for some acting lessons for Love so he can get more flags like Floppy Mahomes does.

I wonder if GM's ever say to themselves, when they have cap space like this, "Well, I suck at drafting such-and-such a position, so maybe I should sign a free agent at that spot."

Or pay someone to stand on the sidelines and remind Love that he can just tuck the ball and run sometimes.

[run pMc]

Yet they still made the playoffs and barely lost to the Niners. Owen and Ford didn't seem like all that bad players.

They weren't expected to make the playoffs last year; they barely squeaked in. Owens played for the Bears (started 5 games) and Ford got signed (and released 2 weeks later) by the Panthers. That about sums up where they stack up against other safeties in the league. If you don't think McKinney and the draft picks was an upgrade, please seek help.

[Guiness]

Clearly, the Saints didn't do a very good job of that cooking/manipulating the way the Packers, Niners, and a lot of other teams do.

I thought the Saints were WAY past the cooking/manipulating point, weren't they? Going back to the Brees years I recall them being as much as 50% or more over the cap at times. That's the flame roasted version of cap cooking!