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January 27, 2012The Bullpen Mafia Gets Deeper And the Tribe Meets The Fans
January 27, 2012Mike Sherman is poised to be the offensive coordinator for the Dolphins and it looks as if the Browns will get Brad Childress, according to sources and reports that peppered social media last night. Whether or not that means Childress was the consolation prize between the two remains to be seen, but it sure feels that way with Sherman landing first. The negativity from Browns fans on Brad Childress doesn’t stop there.
If Childress is the guy it will be another Bob LaMonte client coming in to catch a paycheck from Randy Lerner. LaMonte’s name has grown to such epic proportions over the last two years because he represents so many of the people who occupy Berea, it is becoming its own conspiracy circle. It would have been funny to see what those theorists would have said if the Browns went after Josh McDaniels who happens to be a Bob LaMonte client, yet a part of the Belichick tree instead of the Holmgren one. It is my sense that too much is made of the LaMonte thing, but it is certainly a pervasive opinion.
Childress also flamed out and seemingly lost the locker room in Minnesota as head coach. It sounds like Childress made a lot of his own problems there in how he got along with the media, but if there is a potentially mitigating circumstance then his name happened to be Randy Moss. Nobody gets an excuse for losing a locker room as a head coach, but organizations are more likely to keep locker rooms together than individuals. When you have a front office acquiring guys and then coaches requesting they get ousted, then the message is confusing.
Just ask Eric Mangini. He’s seen it from both sides. One could argue that Brett Favre was thrust upon him with the New York Jets and when he rode Favre even after he seemed to be imploding the season, Mangini became the fall guy in New York. On the other side of things, Mangini had players of questionable talent and questionable scheme thrust on him like Jayme Mitchell as he was fighting for his job. Mangini didn’t play Mitchell and you have to think that philosophical divergence at least had something to do with Mike Holmgren’s decision to cut bait with a guy outside his own tree. Point being that when they say a coach lost a team, it is usually a whole organization contributing.
Regardless, Childress isn’t being brought here to be the head coach. You can’t negate him as an offensive coordinator because he might have failed as a head coach. Last night on Twitter when we were talking about this the examples being used were John Kuester and Romeo Crennel. It is logical.
If Childress is getting the job and coming here, I’m fine with it. Childress is a massively experienced candidate with head coaching experience. I don’t know a lot about his abilities as an offensive coordinator because really, who can separate a coordinator from a strong offensive head coach like Andy Reid? Childress has experience doing what it seems the Browns want to do offensively. Whether he will call plays or not remains to be seen, but you have to hope the influx of experience will have benefits for whoever ends up playing this season. That being said, nothing is a given. Childress will have a lot to prove just as the rest of the Browns offense will have a lot to prove.
This was the structure I wanted when we found out that the Browns had hired Pat Shurmur. Surround the young, first-timer with experienced coordinators who’ve seen lots and lots of football. That didn’t happen last year and even if I can’t tell you with any confidence level that this will work, I can tell you that I think this is 100% the way this coaching staff should have been structured a year ago.
Better late than never, right?
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He got off easy. Those are basically your only two options in Cleveland:
unfairly vilified or fairly vilified.
I wonder if people worried when Minnesota hired Mike Singletary (Leslie Frazier is a LaMonte client as is Mike and Frazier was promoted from within after another LaMonte client was let go – Childress)
or worry because Philly has a GM, HC and OC all represented by LaMonte). Philly fans sure did seem relieved when Steve Spagnuolo decided on NO instead of going to Philly despite being, yes, another Bob LaMonte represented coach. Oh wait, no, they seemed upset that they missed out on a good defensive coach and didn’t care who represented him.
8th seed is NBA purgatory. Need stars to compete for a title.
But that’s the problem. People who are predisposed to hate everything the Browns do will find fault everywhere.
It’s easier to scream conspiracy about LaMonte than to look around the NFL and try to put it into context.
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C-Bus Kevin….I tried liking your post 1 million times, but it only let me do it once.
how exactly do GB fans hold their board accountable?
what you get if you multiply 6 by 9
I know. It’s also sort of strange to me that people think that Holmgren who has been filling out coaching staffs for 20 years is unqualified to find coaches for the Browns.
Tell me any moves that holmgren has made that is good besides hiring tom heckert. Was his great move hiring a coach who has no head coaching experience or stepping into the draft to pick colt mccoy. The browns qb situation is so bad anyone you pick there plays as well as colt has at least. He is a good coach but as far as an executive he has done nothing. Brad Childress coached offenses finished like 23 and 26 in the league when he was in minnesota. I thought we were hiring holmgren to bring in a big name head coach not hook up someone that has no business getting this oppurtunity. You have blinders on if you don’t see that the shurmur hiring was weak. The childress hiring is not a horrible move but randy lerner is so clueless of an owner that people can so easily take advantage of him.
admit it.. you guys are wearing ascots when you write some of this stuff.
so you think if randy lerner ran the packers and got the same results he would still have a job in green bay. If people are pathetic at what they do they would not be able to keep doing it year after year with no consequence.
Childress it is. He brings his much heralded KOA (kickassoffense) to Cleveland from Minnesota. The blueprint: run, run, pass, punt. repeat. Also, might want to hire someone to count the players in the huddle.
The problem with hiring people that all think the same and all know just the one offensive scheme is that it creates a lack if creativity and originality. Plus its Brad Childress, he didnt call plays in Philly and he was horrible on every level in Minny. Why would one expect it to be different here?