IF Shanahan is let go, who do you want as the new head coach and GM next year?

[grego]

i've defended shanahan for while now. i cant believe im actually at the point where it might be ok to let him go. our D coordinator isnt very good (even given his lack of players, imo), our O coordinator is good one week, terrible the next, and he's not getting fired. we are terrible with penalties and clock management, which would seem to indicate poor coaching.

i'd take payton.

[afkidd]

no big name will come here. no first round draft picks for 2 years, salary cap penalty, ZBS players, and a 3-4 defense is job security for Shanahan. Plus, do we really want to get retreads? I wouldn't mind seeing Bob Diaco come in though for d-coord.

[DC9]

GM: Morroco Brown (in house hire)

HC: Russ Grimm (OC for AZ)
OC: James Franklins (HC for Vanderbilt University)
DC: Lou Spanos (DC for UCLA)

I have some ideas for Special Teams... but I would just ask/demand that it not be Danny Smith.

[HOF44]

If we do make a change form Shanny eventually, we need to quit doing this backwards. We need an up and coming hungry GM which most of us probably have no clue who or they would come from their names are not out there like coaches. Then we need to have them pick our coach and players. Then if a coach does not work out for some reason we still have an overriding vision of the type of team we are building and the next coach can carry that on instead of a complete reboot of philosophies if a coach changes.

We have had the all powerful coach, beholden GM model to much. We need a real up and coming GM in charge eventually.

[Hiro]

Part of me wonders if Bruce has the ability to even fire Mike. If he doesn't, Dan might have to step in and fire them both. Then we're left with the possibility Vinny returns.

If we have new people though, I want us to actually go get an up and comer at both positions. Pluck someone from the Packers, Steelers or Giants organization, then hire an up and comer at coach.

My personal wishlist: Mike McCoy (Denver OC), Greg Roman (San Fran OC), Vic Fangio (San Fran DC) or Perry Fewell.

If we go to the college ranks, I would LOVE it if we went hard after Chip Kelly and left him work with Bruce.

[DC9]

Eric Decosta
Vince Newsome

Someone from the Green Bay or Seattle staff

Coach: Rick Dennison, Tom Clements

Green Bay has been picked pretty thin the last year or so with Kareem Mckenzie going to Oakland, etc. I really think Morroco Brown has been groomed for a while now and it's high time the man gets his chance.

[Rypien1191]

Shanny's not going anywhere until 5 years are over.

[DC9]

HC- Bill O'Brien

GM- Someone competent

Interesting Head Coach pick... I'd be in on that one, but lets see how well he does for a few years. He's obviously overcome a lot this year, but Charlie Weis looked like the real deal, as well as Josh McDaniels in their first season.

[Hiro]

HC - Bill O'Brien

GM - Someone competent

Heck no. I don't want anyone who used to work for the Patriots as a head guy. It's been shown over and over again that all their success runs through Belichick and Brady, and no one else.

[Skinzaddict1983]

Someone who has enough courage to get mad and fire someone's ass who deserves it.

If there was a 'Like' button... I would click it here!

So I'll just +1 it since there isn't!

[gortiz]

don't matter ... until the culture and identity of this organization changes, and in the end I think that is the owner's responsibility.

[lavar1156]

Interesting Head Coach pick... I'd be in on that one, but lets see how well he does for a few years. He's obviously overcome a lot this year, but Charlie Weis looked like the real deal, as well as Josh McDaniels in their first season.

I'm a PSU fan. I love O'Brien to death. He has done a remarkable job at PSU. I hope he stays at PSU as long as possible, but if he does leave for the NFL, I hope it's for the 'Skins!

[REDSKYNYRD]

The team has tried every approach: top college coach, legendary coach, regular season champion, up-and-coming assistant, Super Bowl winner...Who knows where to go if Mike doesn't work out?

I'm starting to wish they nabbed Pete Carroll years ago, which is sad.

Edit: up-and-coming assistant was kind of tongue-in-cheek

Agreed. I'm sick of the "has-been" coaches and players landing in Washington after someone else figured out that they are washed up and passes the trash off to us. People can split hairs all day long about what is wrong but for me, the bottom line is the scoreboard. Ws or Ls. How long have we been rebuilding with these people? I would be satisfied with a no-name as long as the job gets done.

[DC9]

I'm a PSU fan. I love O'Brien to death. He has done a remarkable job at PSU. I hope he stays at PSU as long as possible, but if he does leave for the NFL, I hope it's for the 'Skins!

He looks great right now. But... from a Notre Dame fan... give it a year or so. I think O'Brien has a different approach and seems like more of a football guy than Weis did, but Weis looked like the second coming in his first season as HC for Notre Dame. The offense continued to improve and the defense continued to get worse. From what I have seen of Penn State so far, that hasn't been the case. But in hiring a head coach for an NFL team, that's something that should be considered. I hope he does well for you, as hard as I wanted to root against Penn State this year, he's made it very difficult and he's been just what the doctor ordered for that college.

[shuler74]

Chip Kelly- HC

Probably get some slack because he is a college coach, but he is totally different than Spurrier,,,Spurrier did not want to work and just tried to get by.

Look up how Kelly runs his practices....