Polian is far and away my favorite Gm candidate, now if he were to get hired I'd expect him to want to have an offense something like the one in Indy which is completely anti Herm.

No, i meant as in general for the thread for everyone who responds.

Someone will get upset cause he's been mostly a 3-4 guy.

Guys-

Do these GM's and HC have any connection, or are you just listing guys separately that you happen to like?

As long as he doesn't bring a defense like Indy's with him.

Hello, 2003 Chiefs.

I want to Peter Principle some doosh co-ordinator who then will pick his brother in law as the HC.

LMAO

I'd like to think thats true but he just seems to close to the Dungy-Herm-tampa family. He was my first choice untill I started to worry about that connection, although surely his dad is wise enough to point out that if you take Manning/Moore away from Indy Dungy goes nowhere. I don't know that connection just gives me the hebby jebbys.

I'm also sure he's aware being there that Tony Dungy wouldn't be remotely the coach he was if Manning didn't have the sack to break him early on. Manning stood up to him and made him change.

I just listed the two guys that are, imo, the "hot prospects".

This.

Eric DeCosta as GM and....

Jim Schwartz as HC

http://www.titansonline.com/team/coa...ff.php?PRKey=3

That guy is one reeruned looking mofo though.

I think the point with why he said that is most GM's will hire a head coach they are personally familiar with.

I don't think you really have to have a connection to someone to hire them as HC's.

The Patriots guy didn't have one to Mike Smith. Ozzie Newsome didn't have one to John Harbaugh.

I think McDaniels and Spagnuolo are 2 of the best coordinators in the NFL.

Eric DaCosta

I have some concerns. For one thing, does this require us to move to a 3-4 (I argued this in another thread that it's not a terrible idea).

Here's what concerns me most. I think there are a lot of awesome coaches who just weren't meant to ever be head coach material. As a head coach, you become more removed from the X's and O's and it becomes more important how you manage your staff and players. I just see Ryan as a guy his players will learn to hate. As a coordinator, you can rip apart your players and be the jerk. As a coach, you also have to be their friend. I'm not sure if Ryan has that in him. Also, as we learned from Gregg Williams, you have to be able to manage the ball from both sides of the ball, so the head coach has to be cool enough to realize that he can't control everything. Too often head coaches try to become too involved in the side of the ball they have too limited experience dealing with.

My sense is that Ryan is a football genius and yet you rarely ever hear his name come up for consideration from most teams, which leads me to believe that other GMs might be on the same wavelength as me.