Darren Rizzi makes coaching staff changes on D-Line and run defense; adds asst ST coach (3 Viewers)

[Quiet Storm]

I totally expect to see an extremely animated coach Rizzi on the Saints sideline in the games to come. I'm not sure how many new Rizzi memes will be created, but it will be fun to see what will end up as new avatars on our member accounts.

I want to see someone get pissed with BS calls too! Payton would get pissed but Allen would be "okay, you're right..we held for the 12th time"

 

[Madmarsha]

Can he play WR?

No but he's good for some ch-ch-changes

 

[Loge232]

No but he's good for some ch-ch-changes

Turn and face the strange

 

[RadsRock]

I am not saying he is the favourite to get the position, but I think he can certainly turn things around, if he is able to build a competitive coaching staff.

Keeping him on would also provide a path to giving Kubiak another year.

 

[Jazz Cabbage]

The whole “optional stretching before playing thing” is kind of blowing my mind. Then Loomis has the gall to blame this termination/situation on injuries?

 

[0rion]

These are the actions of a coach who saw problems but had no authority or support to fix them.

 

[Jazz Cabbage]

So I’m going to deduce that Lattimore was one of the players that never stretched. Speculating that’s why he missed so many games under DA.



…that and he probably didn’t like DA either lol

 

[DSnfla]

The DL has under performed under Grantham. I also think that his philosophy of smaller quicker DL contributes to a weak run D
It's going to be interesting with DR at the helm the rest of the yr. It's a great audition for him

 

[TenTwo]

He ain't ******* around

 

[Devildog]

One of the first things he said in the press conference was "we have to be comfortable being uncomfortable." I love that.

 

[St. Geezy]

This optional warm up period thing may be the most bizarre thing I’ve read about our team in years.

For a team with our injury problems, how could such a thing have been overlooked? And I’m sure it’s not like Rizzi just quietly set back all this time allowing it without at least mentioning to DA that maybe he should change that.

This is just flat out neglect and coaching malpractice, and between this and the Kendre Miller foul-up, now makes me wonder if the conspiracy theories about DA wanting the injury report excuse for job security purposes had some legitimate merit.

 

[Elvis]

So Rizzi just fired Grantham without firing Grantham. Nice. The D line has been awful. Maybe Brian Young can figure out a way to use Cam going forward.

 

[la. champ1]

Wow. He’s not messing around. I like it.

Facts. Knows what needs to be done and doing it.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

You know the entire coaching/training staff had to have been stewing over DA’s decisions.

I mean, warming up before a game is optional? What kind of blasphemy is that?

There are different types of blasphemy?

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

One of the first things he said in the press conference was "we have to be comfortable being uncomfortable." I love that.

It's a billion times better than embracing the suck, but it's still a similar message.