Chiefs SI Don Banks thinks Crennel stays as HC, McDaniels as OC

Deberg_1990 · 12-29-2011, 07:18 PM

Oh joy!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...sct=nfl_t11_a1

• Kansas City -- The Chiefs' coaching scenario seems the most tidy of all, and of course, the NFL is rarely tidy, so it probably can't happen the way we're envisioning. But here goes: Win or lose Sunday at Denver for Romeo Crennel (although a win and a 2-1 interim head coaching record makes the rationale a much easier sell), there's a pretty good shot he gets elevated to the full-time gig. League sources then expect Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli to go out and hire Rams offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels to the same post in Kansas City, with the expectation that McDaniels will be let go when Spagnuolo

Pioli will then have made his own locker room very happy with the retention of the popular Crennel, who he likes and greatly respects, but also will have put in a place a succession plan with the arrival of McDaniels, who could use another couple seasons to let the radioactivity from his failed Denver head coaching tenure die down. Crennel is 64, and gives Pioli a trusted short-term coaching option. McDaniels is 35, and gives Pioli a trusted long-term coaching option.

Both men are known quantities by Pioli, who will absolutely gravitate to the familiar in this hire, knowing he has to get it right in order to protect his own job security in light of the failed Todd Haley experiment in his first hiring decision. In McDaniels, there's the added bonus of having him work once again with Chiefs starting quarterback Matt Cassel, who he developed in New England. If McDaniels can get Cassel's game cleaned up, then the Chiefs aren't in the market for another starting quarterback option, other than maybe retaining Kyle Orton as Plan B. And McDaniels even worked with Orton in Denver and started 6-0 in 2009 with him under center.

With Crennel's great work with the K.C. defense, McDaniels overseeing the Chiefs offense, and Pioli having both stability and potential on hand, he'd be positioned about as well as he could have dreamed of being in the team's post-Haley era. As I said, this probably makes so much sense it can't possibly happen. But I'm willing to be wrong about my lack of faith. At least until Kansas City hires Kirk Ferentz away from the University of Iowa.

**SAUTO** · 12-29-2011, 07:20 PM

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Chiefs Pantalones · 12-29-2011, 07:21 PM

Hopefully Romeo and McDaniels get AIDS so we don't hire them. Nobody wants to work with AIDS.

**Bane** · 12-29-2011, 07:22 PM

FML!!!

Fritz88 · 12-29-2011, 07:23 PM

Anything but Cassel as our starting QB next season...anything
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Chiefs Pantalones · 12-29-2011, 07:25 PM

Wait, wait, wait...so McDaniels is gonna learn from an already previously failed head coach in Crennel? How does failure + failure = success? So I suck and you suck, so I'm gonna learn from your suck so I don't repeat your suck...ok cool...so how do I get rid of my own suck? Who's gonna teach me that?

Titty Meat · 12-29-2011, 07:26 PM

I hope we lose 52-0 this week

Frazod · 12-29-2011, 07:26 PM

I guess McDouche as OC might be tolerable (I say that because with a real QB, Charles and Moeaki I think this offense will be McDouche-proof). And I'm okay with Crennel as head coach. I guess.

But if Cassel ends up being the third piece of this nasty little trifecta, I'm on strike until Pioli gets greased.

**Bane** · 12-29-2011, 07:26 PM

God hates the Chiefs.

Chiefs Pantalones · 12-29-2011, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by frazod

I guess McDouche as OC might be tolerable (I say that because with a real QB, Charles and Moeaki I think this offense will be McDouche-proof). And I'm okay with Crennel as head coach. I guess.

But if Cassel ends up being the third piece of this nasty little trifecta, I'm on strike until Pioli gets greased.

McDaniels means Cassel is back next year, IMO. How does it not?

**The Bad Guy** · 12-29-2011, 07:28 PM

Might as well get used to the idea because everything I've been told is that it's going to happen.

Romeo will also likely bring in Mel Tucker as his default coordinator, although he'll still continue to run the defense.

**The Bad Guy** · 12-29-2011, 07:29 PM

I'm really not against McDaniels as an OC. The Rams experiment didn't work because of philosophy differences with the HC, and him being asked to run a pseudo West Coast offense when he's only comfortable with a spread attack.

Deberg_1990 · 12-29-2011, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla Thunder

McDaniels means Cassel is back next year, IMO. How does it not?

Who knows? McDaniels obviously likes Orton too.

**Bugeater** · 12-29-2011, 07:31 PM

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Chiefs Pantalones · 12-29-2011, 07:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Who knows? McDaniels obviously likes Orton too.

QB battle royale?

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