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Sean Payton has yet to make his decision on our next DC... until I hear it from him I'm not buying any of the early reports.
However... I want to kill a few rumors that have been flying around here in support for the "No To Rob Ryan" movement...
The Rams did not turn do Rob Ryan... Rob Ryan turned the Rams down:
Yes Ryan is a nutcase but his players play hard for him, and he stands up for his players (link). Jerry Jones used Ryan as the scapegoat in Dallas and everybody knows it. Ryan's defense still performed even with all the injuries.
We have LIMITED options on who will be our next DC. Many (myself included) feel that Crennel should be our DC... but many don't know that Crennel is still getting paid from KC (for a couple years I think) so there's no real need for him to work. Any job he takes will lessen the amount of money he gets from KC, so in essence... he'd be taking a pay cut if he coaches anywhere this year. So as much as we want Romeo to be our DC it makes too much sense for him NOT to work.
We also have a contingent for Graham from GA. Graham may have the creds and he just might be what we need. I don't know much about him other than reading some info online on where he's been and who he coached with, and he does seem to be more than qualified to run a solid defense.
As for NFL assistants... the rule states (paraphrasing) any assistant coach that wants to become a coordinator of another team, this will be considered a "lateral move", and teams don't necessarily have to grant permission to interview.
Loosely translated... if Tomsula or Donatell wanted to interview for our DC position, Harbaugh could refuse to let them interview because the move from "position coach" to "coordinator" is considered a lateral move in the NFL.
This makes no sense to me because I'd think "coordinator" would be a step up from "position coach", but that's not how the NFL sees it.
So we go back to Ryan. He's really the only candidate that has skins on the wall, and someone that our players would respond to. I'd be surprised if Ryan doesn't become our next DC.
However... I want to kill a few rumors that have been flying around here in support for the "No To Rob Ryan" movement...
The Rams did not turn do Rob Ryan... Rob Ryan turned the Rams down:
The bottom line, according to a source, is that Ryan declined the defensive coordinator position due to hesitations from coaching a 4-3 system and not being able to pick his assistants.
"He wanted it to work, and I just think he realized over the weekend that it was not (a fit)," a source told Thomas. "Rob was torn."
Ryan and his wife were in St. Louis over the weekend and he even attended a Blues game. The team was prepared to make an announcement Friday, then early this week, then everything changed. Ryan reportedly worried if he could get another coordinator job if things didn't work out in St. Louis. And if he's going down, he's going down with his own system (3-4) and assistants. That wasn't possible in St. Louis.
(Link)
Yes Ryan is a nutcase but his players play hard for him, and he stands up for his players (link). Jerry Jones used Ryan as the scapegoat in Dallas and everybody knows it. Ryan's defense still performed even with all the injuries.
We have LIMITED options on who will be our next DC. Many (myself included) feel that Crennel should be our DC... but many don't know that Crennel is still getting paid from KC (for a couple years I think) so there's no real need for him to work. Any job he takes will lessen the amount of money he gets from KC, so in essence... he'd be taking a pay cut if he coaches anywhere this year. So as much as we want Romeo to be our DC it makes too much sense for him NOT to work.
We also have a contingent for Graham from GA. Graham may have the creds and he just might be what we need. I don't know much about him other than reading some info online on where he's been and who he coached with, and he does seem to be more than qualified to run a solid defense.
As for NFL assistants... the rule states (paraphrasing) any assistant coach that wants to become a coordinator of another team, this will be considered a "lateral move", and teams don't necessarily have to grant permission to interview.
Loosely translated... if Tomsula or Donatell wanted to interview for our DC position, Harbaugh could refuse to let them interview because the move from "position coach" to "coordinator" is considered a lateral move in the NFL.
This makes no sense to me because I'd think "coordinator" would be a step up from "position coach", but that's not how the NFL sees it.
So we go back to Ryan. He's really the only candidate that has skins on the wall, and someone that our players would respond to. I'd be surprised if Ryan doesn't become our next DC.