Monte Kiffin resigns from USC
 

According to @USC_Athletics:

https://twitter.com/USC_Athletics/st...33782776115201

Gruden calling?

Yeah, its gotta be a chucky comeback.

Even he got tired of Lane.

73 years old next year and looking to get back into the NFL?

Hope not, I need Gruden at Tennessee. A man can dream...

Not sure if want
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If we hired Gruden and he got Kiffin, doesn't that mean goodbye to the 3-4?

Gonna be awkward at xmas...

Do not want. It doesn't make sense here anyway. This defense would be a bitch to convert to a tampa two.

His brat offspring should go too.

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It does indeed

I wouldn't be a fan of that combo coming here.

HAHAHAHHAH

That is all USC fans.

That will do. That will do.

And yet you're a fan of Cowher?

Give me a break.

Gruden > Cowher.

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Yup. Back to the Tampa two.

LDE Hali
DT Dorsey (re-signed)
DT Poe (3tech)
RDE Houston

LOLB vacant
MLB DJ
ROLB vacant

LCB Flowers
SS Berry
FS vacant
RCB vacant

I really don't give a **** if we switch schemes to be honest.

It's not like we have some beastly 3-4 system installed with all this awesome chemistry.

I dont get why guys like this are still around. it's like he's keeping some coaching secret from all the other coaches that have worked under him

Uhhhh sorry but we'd be fine with Lewis playing FS in a Cover 2.

We need 2 badass DL to make the 3-4 work anyway so I'm fine with switching to the Tampa 2 and finding 2 OLB instead. Probably easier to find to be honest.

Hali and his huge ass contract become useless in a 4-3. Houston plays well as a linebacker, but who knows how he'll do with his hand in the dirt. The one-gap 3-4 fits our personnel a lot better.

Hahaha no.

Cowher would make this defense borderline elite overnight with the pieces we have and the offense would be respectable with Geno Smith and these pieces.

Gruden would make the offense better, but would be turning over half the defense.

Again.

I'm still a fan of staying with the 34, but not the prehistoric version we seem to run.


Romeo's version is well suited to pair with an offense that puts up points. It slows offenses down, but doesn't necessarily stop them until red zone time it seems then holds for field goals.

It's a great defense to pair with a Tom Brady offense.

Really just one solid 3-tech if Poe can be good at NT.

Bullshit. We have no defensive ends for a one-gap 3-4.

Houston would be fine, he played DE at Georgia. And Hali is fine at DE, ignore 2008.

No, we need two starting defensive ends for a 1-gap 3-4.

We have none.

Provided we switch to teh 1-gap

I think Poe would be a pretty good fit in an attacking 1 gap scheme, with his strength.

Sheldon Richardson wouldn't be a bad pick in this draft.

In a 1-gap, there is typically 1-de playing the 5/4 -tech. While I'd like to see it upgraded, we could find a stop gap

He played OLB at Georgia, IIRC.

How basses has our defense been when they set Hali and Houston loose in the second half of 2011?

That's why he's better than Cowher. Period.

At least Gruden had success with two teams. You know he's gonna come here and make us respectable at least.

Cowher? How do you know he can recapture what he did in Pitt? You don't. You also don't know if he's truly committed to a pass-first offense.

**** Bill Cowher.

And he played DE there.

You don't know that.

And which did he excel at?

My mom kissed his mom once.
True story.
My mom sat next oldlady Kiffin at the 1971 Game of the century in Oklahoma. Last offensive play of the game for OU was a interception in the endzone that sealed the game for NU. My mom leaned over & kissed Monte's mom on the cheek & said give that to Monte for me.

What the **** are you talking about? Cowher was successful with many totally different teams that he coached for Pittsburgh...he just did it in the same town.

How many players were on his first superbowl team that were still there for his last one?

Griese, Gradkowski, Simms, McCown, Jeff Garcia, and Brad JOhnson were the QBs Gruden had start for his teams.


WTF makes you think he's capable of running a quality offense or will draft a real QB? Funny that the Bucs finally did that when he got fired LMAO

Houston would be just fine at RDE...someone posted his sack numbers that came from standing up and in a 3 point stance and he had more in a 3pt.

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If Gruden were to draft a qb, he would take Barkley. He is a WCO guy.

I wonder if kiffin would run the under. It's essentially what Gus Bradley runs in Seattle, and Bradley is a kiffin disciple.

If they run the under, that's an interesting scheme and kc almost has the personnel to run it.

IIRC, Lane is more offensive based, an Monte focused on D.

Looking back, no idea why I answered the question since I'd want neither of the kiffins in KC.

He was forced out.

Don't believe anything else.

LMAOLMAOLMAO

I tend to believe more this.


The USC defense was atrocious this year, like WVU bad.

Then Lane will be fired?

Neither do you.

Smart money is on WE DON'T because they are all shitty so far.

If Jackson had showed up as a run defender again this year or had a manageable salary, I'd be inclined to disagree.

I really can't though. :(

We have guys with the physical tools. Poe, Bailey, Smith and ropatuti Pototujvdfdgg all would have potential to be above average 1 gap players and Poe and Bailey have massive upside in that role.

I'd rather have Andy Reed than Gruden.

Bailey and Ropati ****ing suck.

They don't put pressure on the QB. Period. Do I need to cite PPF ratings? Jesus Christ, dude.

Shaun Smith is garbage off the street.

The ONLY GUY on this roster with potential in this area is Poe.

I would rather have Andy Griffith than Gruden
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I guess he could fire his father after all.

Gruden would likely have two Super Bowls with two teams if it were not for Tom Brady's bullshit tuck rule.

He is the antithesis of "Martyball" Cowher and his bullshit chin mustache conservative ways.

Dude, weren't you pimping Jeff Fisher all off-season?

Don't be obtuse. Citing PFF ratings of defensive linemen in their first two years is pointless.

Smith and Pitituvdfafgc have both shown the ability to push the pocket, too.

Whatever. They're two of the lowest rated pass rushers on PFF.

They have shown NOTHING, so you prognosticating them as some kind of solution is total bullshit.

You've been pimping Bailey since he was drafted and he has done absolutely jack shit in the NFL.

Did you have a better solution at the time?

Idiots on here wanted Romeo, and tried to tell me he was a better coach. ROFL

Yeah, Clay was pulling for Mr. 8-8 a couple of years ago.

Jeff Fisher wasn't NEARLY as conservative as The Chin was in Pittsburgh.

He had a top 10 passing offense several times and actually hired an OC because he wanted to throw the ball down the field more.

Remember HE didn't want Vince Young. The owner did.

And yet Vince was one of the top rated downfield passers at the time

Id argue that wed be in a much worse position long term had we hired Fisher. And im not quite sure how you can hate on Cohwer yet pimp Fisher..

That's the word on the "street". I knew for sure that Monte was going to be fired because if Lane hadn't let him go, he was certainly a goner.

Pat Haden has given him the dreaded "Vote of Confidence" but the Boosters want Lane fired, regardless.

They feel like they hired the wrong guy in Kiffen and should have hired Sarkisian.

I pimped Fisher because he was the best coach available last offseason.

I'm not gonna complain if Cowher is hired but Gruden is a better option. We need an offensive coach, not a conservaderp.

Cowher had pass first teams in pittsburgh too! He just just wasnt able to win playoff games with that. When they played run control offense with a Franchise QB they won the super bowl

lol.

I personally am thankful for Romeo. Hes allowing us to possibly do what no chiefs team in history has done before: Draft a QB 1st overall

This is his second year and he has been misused, IMO. Both of those factors work against him. He is a 290 pound monster with massive strength and really good mobility. That's EXACTLY what you look for in a DE for a 3-4 zone blitzing defense.

Re-sign Dorsey for a year and throw him in the middle in the Casey Hampton role and I think that 3 man DL could be pretty good.

He has shit mobility. He's frequently matched up one on one with linemen and shows zero pass rush ability.

Come on.

Id prefer the coach that likely wants a 1st round QB, not the guy who loves vet QBs.

LMAO

Dude, Chuckys offense is VERY similar to what we run now. Its the WCO...dump offs and short passes are the bread and butter.

Why do you think he got by with shitty QBs the whole time?

If we bring in Chucky, we are gonna do one of two things:

1) Draft Barkley at first overall
2) Draft a defensive player first overall and a QB in the second or third.

The guy passed on Aaron Rodgers for Cadillac Williams in 2005.

Think about that for a second.

With Cohwer, at least we have a shot at taking Geno.

I dont care if we get Cowher or Gruden really. Just one of them. We only have 1 true good Dlineman. Poe. He's shown flashes and done impactful things. He's shown he can put pressure on the QB too

This was the pre-draft report on Bailey. Big shock that he sucks at rushing the passer.

He's just another example of the "physical specimen" type that the Patriot Way overdrafts. He got picked for the same reason we took slapdicks like Baldwin and Jackson. Pioli falls in love with big beasts who suck at playing.

Cowher knows he needs a franchise QB. Thats why he had issues with the Steeler front office. He wanted one and got Ben

FFS you have no clue what his responsibility is on any given play and most of the time, his job is to hold the line, not push it.

Gilberry could get to the QB and what did that get him?

Free agency.