This team needs Jon Gruden right now
Look at how undisciplined this team has been since coach Payton left. We need a coach with fire, who will demand respect, an alpha, and one who studies every detail of the game, along with their x and o’s knowledge. That screams Jon Gruden. Everyone else mentioned has a personality of Dennis Allen and will just be Yes Men to Loomis. Let Gruden run it for a couple years until we get out of this cap situation and make the most out of what we have now and also help demand excellence from the incoming rookie classes and lay a foundation for whatever coach may come in afterwards. DA has destroyed that and we need it back badly. It’s crazy how the broncos looked from year 1 to year 2 and you can see the players play hard and respond well to SP. we need to that right now in the worst way on this current team.
You raise a couple of good points to an extent.
1.) yes this team needs discipline and Jon would demand that
2.) We need someone who will be willing to coach us, until some of these bad contracts fall off of the books.
Jon is already a Super Bowl winning HC, so he has already tasted that. No one can take that away. Plus, with his lawsuit against the NFL, our team may be the only team, who is willing to give him a shot. With that being said, maybe he would be willing to coach us through some bad seasons, until our cap situation is correct, and then he can go off into retirement. Sorta like an agreement where “you scratch our back and we’ll scratch yours” type thing.
Which is:
You get another HC job and we get a lame duck HC (in essence), until we are ready to make some serious moves at HC and QB.
It would be a tall order to ask someone, but like I said, Jon has nothing left to prove, and he would stick it to the NFL by getting a coaching spot. Not the best terms, but it’s something.
Frankly, I’d still want another HC, where we identify the guy, and give him at least a year grace period.