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Report: Raiders to hire Dennis Allen

Posted by Mike Florio on January 24, 2012, 8:53 PM EST

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And the Denver Broncos will have yet another new defensive coordinator in 2012.

Jay Glazer of FOX and Adam Schefter of ESPN report that the Raiders will hire Broncos defensive coordinator Dennis Allen to be Oakland’s new head coach. He’ll be the 19th coach in franchise history, and the ninth since the team returned from Los Angeles in 1995.

Allen will be the first Raiders coach with a defensive background since John Madden, the longest-tenured coach in franchise history with nine seasons on the job.

The 39-year-old Georgia native’s NFL career began with the Falcons in 2002. After four years in Atlanta, Allen joined Sean Payton in New Orleans, spending five seasons with the Saints.

Allen uses a 4-3 defense, the same attack the Raiders currently employ. New G.M. Reggie McKenzie suggested during his introductory press conference that the team possibly will switch to a 3-4.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/24/report-raiders-to-hire-dennis-allen/
 
The Indianapolis Colts have hired Ravens defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano as head coach.

The team said Pagano will be introduced at a news conference on Thursday. It will be the first head coaching job for the 51-year-old Pagano, who has been a career assistant until now with stops in Oakland and Cleveland in the NFL and stints at schools including Miami and North Carolina.

"It's difficult to leave the Ravens but I couldn't pass up on this great opportunity," Pagano said in a statement released by the Ravens. "I'm just thrilled and so excited."

Pagano interviewed with the Colts on Tuesday after Baltimore was eliminated from the playoffs Sunday in a 23-20 loss to the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship Game.

This season was Pagano's first in charge of the vaunted Ravens defense. Pagano followed Greg Mattison, who left Baltimore after two seasons as defensive coordinator for the same position at the University of Michigan in January 2011.

Under Pagano, Baltimore allowed the third-fewest points and yards in the league in 2011. Safety Ed Reed, linebackers Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs and nose tackle Haloti Ngata also made the Pro Bowl under Pagano.

"I like it," Pro Bowl defensive end Robert Mathis wrote on Twitter.

Pagano replaces Jim Caldwell, who was fired after the Colts' 2-14 season in which quarterback Peyton Manning never played a down as he recovered from neck surgery.

The move is just the latest in a dizzying series of changes by owner Jim Irsay.

The Colts fired Caldwell last week after three seasons. The team went to the Super Bowl during Caldwell's first year, but this year locked up the No. 1 overall draft pick with a horrid performance that also cost team vice chairman Bill Polian and his son, general manager Chris, their jobs.

Irsay has since hired 39-year-old Ryan Grigson as the new GM while letting go of Caldwell's staff. In all, 11 of the 20 coaches who started the season are gone and others may go, too, once Pagano arrives.

Pagano is the fourth former Ravens defensive coordinator to land a head coaching job, following Marvin Lewis, Mike Nolan and Rex Ryan.

The Wyoming graduate and former strong safety for the Cowboys began his coaching career in 1984 as a graduate assistant at Southern California and spent time in the college ranks at Boise State, UNLV, East Carolina and Miami before joining Cleveland to coach the secondary. In 2005-06, he was defensive backs coach at Oakland, then served as defensive coordinator at North Carolina before joining the Ravens when John Harbaugh became head coach four years ago.

"Chuck is unorthodox," Suggs said. "He's like the Joker. You never really expect what he's going to do, and everything has a motive."

The Ravens considered Pagano to be just one of the guys.

"What makes him good? He relates to the players a whole lot," defensive end Cory Redding said. "He's almost like a player in a D-coordinator's position. The guy has so much fun with us. He treats you like more than a player. It's like we're his sons. He wants us to do well. He keeps it fresh. He knows everybody's strengths and puts them in position to make plays."

Asked last month if he had aspirations to be a head coach, Pagano replied, "When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?' He always said if somebody had answered him, 'Not really, I'm OK just being a position coach,' then I don't think he really wanted him on his staff because he wanted ambitious guys.

Chuck Pagano is the fourth former Ravens defensive coordinator to land an NFL head coaching job.
"I think if you ask anybody they'd say yeah. That would be something you always work for and toward."

Ravens linebacker Paul Kruger believes Pagano has what it takes to be a head coach in the NFL.

"Chuck has a leadership quality about him. He's humble but he also knows when to take the reins and take charge," Kruger said. "He doesn't try to dominate you in every meeting. He's just a coach that knows exactly how players are and what direction they need. He's a hell of a coach and I really think he'll be a head coach one day."

One of Pagano's and Grigson's most important decisions will be helping Irsay determine Manning's future with the club.

In an interview with The Indianapolis Star this week, Manning appeared turned off by the sudden upheaval in the Colts complex.

"I'm not in a very good place for healing, let's say that," he told the newspaper. "It's not a real good environment down there right now, to say the least. Everybody's walking around on eggshells. I don't recognize our building right now. There's such complete and total change."

Manning said he met with Grigson last week and was told that Irsay would determine whether the quarterback will remain a Colt.

Manning said a meeting with Irsay "is going to happen at some point, but we haven't had that conversation yet because we really don't need to have that conversation yet."

He reiterated to The Star that he wants to remain with the Colts but realizes it's not his call solely to make. He also made it clear that he isn't contemplating retirement right now.

Manning is due a $28 million bonus in early March.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7503273/chuck-pagano-hired-indianapolis-colts-coach

I can't believe they've blown up the entire thing.
 
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7...carlet-knights-greg-schiano-coach-source-says

Source: Bucs hire Greg Schiano

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have finalized a five-year deal to hire Rutgers coach Greg Schiano as their new head coach, according to league source.

The two sides had been busy putting the finishing touches on an agreement Thursday morning that gives Tampa Bay a new direction and Schiano, 45, his first NFL head coaching job.

Schiano was intrigued by the challenge of coaching in the NFL and also was concerned about the perceived uncertainty of the future direction of the Big East Conference, a source told ESPN's Joe Schad.

Being a UC alumn and following the Big East closely, I have to say Schiano is one of the most overrated coaches in the NCAA. He consistently got great recruits (for the Big East), played one of the weakest OOC schedules in the NCAA every year (consistently having two non-FCS teams every year), and didn't get any results worth of note.

Rutgers was committed to him. He made a great salary considering his lack of results, and he was never even close to the hot seat at Rutgers.

He isn't going to get the same long leash in the NFL that he had at Rutgers. The NFL is a results now league. Needless to say, I see him being out of the league in 3 years.
 
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Being a UC alumn and following the Big East closely, I have to say Schiano is one of the most overrated coaches in the NCAA. He consistently got great recruits (for the Big East), played one of the weakest OOC schedules in the NCAA every year (consistently having two non-FCS teams every year), and didn't get any results worth of note.

Rutgers was committed to him. He made a great salary considering his lack of results, and he was never even close to the hot seat at Rutgers.

He isn't going to get the same long leash in the NFL that he had at Rutgers. The NFL is a results now league. Needless to say, I see him being out of the league in 3 years.

I'm just glad it means that we still have a shot for Sherman or Childress.
 
I'm just glad it means that we still have a shot for Sherman or Childress.

If we got Chili as an OC... I'd be pretty happy with our off the field roster :)
 
The only thing that worries me about Sherman/Chilly is that we're building quite the old guys club. There's something to be said for experience, but I'd also like to have some young guys with drive, ambition and new ideas.
 
The only thing that worries me about Sherman/Chilly is that we're building quite the old guys club. There's something to be said for experience, but I'd also like to have some young guys with drive, ambition and new ideas.

:chuckles: But everyone complained when we got a young HC with minimal experience. When you have a guy like that coacing your team you need older, experienced coordinators who have done it before. Chilly would be great here.
 
Greg Schiano may add Butch Davis to Bucs’ staff

Posted by Michael David Smith on January 30, 2012, 7:54 AM EST

As the last team to get its head coach in place for 2012, Tampa Bay now has a tough task of assembling a staff of assistants after many of the best coaches available have already been hired elsewhere. But new Bucs head coach Greg Schiano may be reaching into his past to add an experienced coach to his staff.

Peter King reports in his Monday Morning Quarterback column that Schiano wants former Browns head coach Butch Davis on his staff, either as defensive coordinator or assistant head coach.

Schiano and Davis have been close since Schiano was the defensive coordinator and Davis was the head coach of the Miami Hurricanes in 1999 and 2000. Davis left that job to become head coach of the Browns, and Davis was also a well-respected defensive coach with the Cowboys in the 1990s. So he has significant NFL experience, even though, like Schiano, he has been a college head coach in recent years.

Davis was fired as head coach at North Carolina in July, in the wake of an NCAA investigation into academic misconduct and impermissible contacts between players and agents.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/30/greg-schiano-may-add-butch-davis-to-bucs-staff/
 
I always liked Butch Davis as a coach, it's just he and his staff couldn't evaluate talent when drafting. His best draft pick in the 4 years he was here was Ryan Pontbriand.
 
I think Butch is a real good "coach 'em up" type guy. His teams have always been competitive. Organizationally, they're always a disaster though. I think it has to with the "U" atmosphere that he promotes. Maybe in a position where he can't assert his supreme authority and try to do too much, those problems wont emerge. I hope that he does well though.
 
ESPN.com - The Chiefs have hired former Dolphins assistant Brian Daboll as their new offensive coordinator, a league source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

How does this guy keep getting hired as an OC? Must be one hell of an interviewing.
 
Senator calls hearing on bounties

Posted by Mike Florio on March 22, 2012, 3:13 PM EDT

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Five years ago, former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter tried unsuccessfully to get Congress engaged in the Spygate controversy. Now, another Senator plans to push for Congressional exploration of the Saints’ bounty fiasco.

Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has announced that a hearing of the Judiciary Committee will be convened on the topic.

“Many sports involve human contact and the chance of serious injury. But when an injury is by design and is paid for, we’ve moved beyond any definition of sport,” Durbin said in a statement released by his office. “I’m happy that the NFL acted swiftly once a bounty program was discovered. But questions remain about what the NFL and other professional and collegiate sports organizations are doing to protect their players and the integrity of their sports.

“After consulting with Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and Crime Subcommittee Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse, I will convene a hearing to explore the prevalence of this bounty practice and determine whether existing sports bribery laws should be expanded to include a prohibition on bounties.”

The question of whether existing laws should be expanded overlooks the question of whether creative application of existing laws would encompass the behavior in which the Saints were engaged.

“Let’s be real basic about it here,” Senator Durbin told Howard Fendrich of the Associated Press. “If this activity were taking place off of a sporting field, away from a court, nobody would have a second thought [about whether it's wrong]. ‘You mean, someone paid you to go out and hurt someone?’

“It goes way beyond the rules of any sporting contest, at least team contest, to intentionally inflict harm on another person for a financial reward.”

Senator Durbin announced the hearing Thursday, on the floor of the Senate. Representatives from the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, and NCAA will be invited to testify.

We fully expect a wide assortment of comments articulating the notion that Congress has better things to do right now. But Congress routinely gets involved in matters that speak directly to the public interest. And given the prevalence and importance of sports in American society, this is a matter that strikes at the heart of the integrity of the games.

Throw in the fact that bounties encourage the intentional infliction of injury, and the failure of Congress to explore the situation would represent a failure of our government to protect its citizens.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/22/senator-calls-hearing-on-bounties/+

STAY THE FUCK OUT OF SPORTS! We are in MASSIVE debt and instead of working on the problem, these fumble-fucks wanna stick their dick where it doesn't belong, so that they seem relevant to their voting base. It's not what you're doing, it's what you should be doing.

Perhaps Dick should give ole' Arlen a call and ask him how everything turned out for him.
 

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