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Originally Posted by Keith
I agree with this entire post... it's one of the points I'm making in an article for the site I had written earlier today and yesterday that related to the Hoke comments above (and well hell, most of the other points have already been stated in this thread, too).
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As promised, the
article, much of it a reboot of this thread though.
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Originally Posted by popanot
Like they say, money talks. But I would think guys like Wade Phillips and Marvin Lewis are cocky enough to think they'd be able to turnaround this D' and would be interested (if they get fired from their current gig, of course). It's a gamble, but being on the inside may give them a better shot at the HC job if Kubiak got canned. Certainly on an interim basis if it happened during the season.
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McNair would probably have to pay someone like that as a HC. Not saying McNair would be unwilling, but his track record with assistant coach salaries suggests he probably would be unwilling. And put yourself in McNair's shoes... would you want to commit HC money to an assistant that may or may not be here in more than a year? I don't follow assistant coach pay as closely as I do player pay, but I would think someone like Phillips or Lewis would negotiate multi-year deals.
And I wonder what effect doing that would have on Kubiak. Kubes has brought in more experienced guys (Sherman, for example), but that has been at his own doing. Not sure he'd be gung ho to hire someone he isn't already 'friends' with.
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Originally Posted by papabear
I would love for Wade to coach here, and I know he would be interested in coming to Houston. He prefers a 3-4, and I don't want to go through that transition again. I don't think our personnel translates very well at all.
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It's a horrible translation. Okoye as a 3-4 end? Hmmm, sounds greek to me. We already saw Travis fail in a 3-4. I think Mario's skills aren't nearly as effective as a 3-4 OLB (not to mention he'd probably be in coverage more than he already is), and as an end, he might have trouble finding room. We have no nose tackle, and Okam isn't ready to wear those daddy pants yet, if ever. He seems more like a 4-3 DT to me anyway.
DeMeco is probably good in any system, and Diles if he returns 100% might be alright, too. I'd have real questions though about the other LBs, though outside of Adibi, none of them might be on the roster next year anyway.
ETA - Cochran would have to become an OLB. Bulman might be okay as an end. In either system, we are desperate for competent safeties. Still, yuck. I think we'd have fewer holes to fill if we kept moving forward with the 4-3.