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Just throwing this out there--I was planning on making a post the other day about how it seems like Stefanski's staff is entirely composed of people he's worked with in the past, and how that could be the first thing he's done that makes me worry. If you're limiting your search to only people you've worked with before, that prevents you from being able to find the best candidates.

And... then he goes and hires Bill Callahan

Everything's looking good so far. Not only have I not seen anything that I would label a misstep from him yet, but the talent that is willing to come to Cleveland and join him has been pretty awesome.
 
Out of the Rafters at the Q said:
Just throwing this out there--I was planning on making a post the other day about how it seems like Stefanski's staff is entirely composed of people he's worked with in the past, and how that could be the first thing he's done that makes me worry. If you're limiting your search to only people you've worked with before, that prevents you from being able to find the best candidates.

And... then he goes and hires Bill Callahan

Everything's looking good so far. Not only have I not seen anything that I would label a misstep from him yet, but the talent that is willing to come to Cleveland and join him has been pretty awesome.
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It's one thing to hire people that you've worked with in the past that deserve it vs. hiring people that you feel comfortable with. That is where Kitchens (and ultimately Dorsey) failed. Although it was almost purposeful as Dorsey wanted to be the smartest "football guy" in the coaches room, to our team's detriment.

Lindley had no business being a QB coach and it sounds like Henry was hired almost entirely to keep OBJ in check, which might've worked for the most part during the season off-the-field, but didn't lead to the results it should've on-the-field.

Woods, Callahan, and O'Shea are proven guys that have spent years working with well respected organizations, especially from a cultural standpoint, throughout college and the pros. Aside from comfortability with Stefan-ski, they should demand immediate respect (and in turn, buy-in) from our guys.

I told myself that I won't get excited till I see results on the field but damn if Stefanski isn't making that hard for me.
 
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And it's more than just the fact that we're a team getting Callahan. His hiring is of particularly importance this year given the strong possibility we're going to be investing draft picks in the offensive line. Having a guy like Callahan be the first NFL coach for talented rookie OT's (hopefully plural) is really getting some great synergy. Begin their careers on the right foot with the best possible coaching. And probably not a bad idea to have Callahan give his two cents during the drafting process, either.

Really a home run hire given where we are in terms of rebuilding the OL.

Btw, how usual is it to hire a brand new offensive coordinator, but not let him pick any of his staff? I'm not saying that's bad just wondering what that says about how much of a role Stefanski himself is going to play in terms of running the offense v. the coordinator. If we even hire one at all.
 
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Out of the Rafters at the Q said:
Just throwing this out there--I was planning on making a post the other day about how it seems like Stefanski's staff is entirely composed of people he's worked with in the past, and how that could be the first thing he's done that makes me worry. If you're limiting your search to only people you've worked with before, that prevents you from being able to find the best candidates.

And... then he goes and hires Bill Callahan

Everything's looking good so far. Not only have I not seen anything that I would label a misstep from him yet, but the talent that is willing to come to Cleveland and join him has been pretty awesome.
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It is always a good sign when heavily thought of execs and coaches are willing to come to Cleveland, it wasn't long ago this wasn't always the case. I am hoping of course this is a very good sign for next season.
 
Kbiz said:
It's one thing to hire people that you've worked with in the past that deserve it vs. hiring people that you feel comfortable with. That is where Kitchens (and ultimately Dorsey) failed. Although it was almost purposeful as Dorsey wanted to be the smartest "football guy" in the coaches room, to our team's detriment.

Lindley had no business being a QB coach and it sounds like Henry was hired almost entirely to keep OBJ in check, which might've worked for the most part during the season off-the-field, but didn't lead to the results it should've on-the-field.

Woods, Callahan, and O'Shea are proven guys that have spent years working with well respected organizations, especially from a cultural standpoint, throughout college and the pros. Aside from comfortability with Stefan-ski, they should demand immediate respect (and in turn, buy-in) from our guys.

I told myself that I won't get excited till I see results on the field but damn if Stefanski isn't making that hard for me.
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Did Freddie have ties with Wilkes? Almost certain he didn’t with Monken and that was viewed very positively as Freddie being willing to hire outside of people he’s worked with to bring in bright minds.

it can be a good thing, but it’s not automatically so. A big part of it is if you can work well together. Bringing in guys you have a history with makes the answer to that a lot easier than guys you interview and have references for, but have never been in the same building 16 hours a day for months on end with

I think there’s merit to both,and I think there’s situations where both fail.
 
The Wizard of Moz said:
Did Freddie have ties with Wilkes? Almost certain he didn’t with Monken and that was viewed very positively as Freddie being willing to hire outside of people he’s worked with to bring in bright minds.

it can be a good thing, but it’s not automatically so. A big part of it is if you can work well together. Bringing in guys you have a history with makes the answer to that a lot easier than guys you interview and have references for, but have never been in the same building 16 hours a day for months on end with

I think there’s merit to both,and I think there’s situations where both fail.
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As best I can tell, outside of the three guys Kitchens retained from Hue's staff which were Lindley, Henry and Walker, I don't believe he had worked with many of the coaches that were brought on. Definitely not Wilks, Monken or Priefer.

The rumors at the time were that Dorsey tapped into his own rolodex and brought on the biggest names that were available since Kitchens didn't have a huge wealth of experienced coaches to tap into.
 
Kbiz said:
It's one thing to hire people that you've worked with in the past that deserve it vs. hiring people that you feel comfortable with. That is where Kitchens (and ultimately Dorsey) failed. Although it was almost purposeful as Dorsey wanted to be the smartest "football guy" in the coaches room, to our team's detriment.

Lindley had no business being a QB coach and it sounds like Henry was hired almost entirely to keep OBJ in check, which might've worked for the most part during the season off-the-field, but didn't lead to the results it should've on-the-field.

Woods, Callahan, and O'Shea are proven guys that have spent years working with well respected organizations, especially from a cultural standpoint, throughout college and the pros. Aside from comfortability with Stefan-ski, they should demand immediate respect (and in turn, buy-in) from our guys.

I told myself that I won't get excited till I see results on the field but damn if Stefanski isn't making that hard for me.
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Henry was often credited (whether true or not, who knows) with the turnaround our WRs had in the 2018 season. At the beginning they were terrible but managed to step it up later on.

I don't know if he was retained because of OBJ's acquisition, but he was a solid WRs coach. I have no idea what the hell happened to our guys in 2019.
 
Mary Kay has noticeably eased off the "Scangarello is interviewing to be the offensive coordinator" chatter that she opened with a few days ago.
 
So, is it still possible to hire away one of the OC's from San Fran? Not sure if anyone that's been hired so far is familiar with either lafleur or McDaniels. And I would think the oc would want to hire some of his guys too.
 
Snowblind said:
So, is it still possible to hire away one of the OC's from San Fran? Not sure if anyone that's been hired so far is familiar with either lafleur or McDaniels. And I would think the oc would want to hire some of his guys too.
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There is no way of guaranteeing Shanahan would let one go to be OC. We know his precedent: He let Scangarello go because he was assured that he would call plays in Denver for a defensive head coach. Stefanski can offer McDaniel the same, but we can't be guaranteed Shanny will agree to it.

Considering the Browns ownership let him make a lateral move to Atlanta when they didn't have to, I feel like karmically this is what he should do. He might dislike the Haslams constant meddling so much he puts his foot down as well... hard to say. I don't expect the Browns to know how big a dick Shanahan will be until well after the Super Bowl concludes.
 
Snowblind said:
So, is it still possible to hire away one of the OC's from San Fran? Not sure if anyone that's been hired so far is familiar with either lafleur or McDaniels. And I would think the oc would want to hire some of his guys too.
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Scangarello is tied to both, I'd say its still a possibility that he's the QB Coach to Mike McDaniel as OC.
 
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