ESPN - Crennel likely to join Chiefs
 

Schefter just mentioned on ESPN Sunday Countdown that Romeo Crennel was likely to join the Chiefs as DC this offseason. Nothing concrete (or necessarily surprising), but interesting nonetheless...

I just caught that.:shrug: Anyone would be an upgrade over Clancy.

It's the system.

**** YES.

Just saw that too. Thought that was very, very interesting.

Don't know how to feel about it. But my sense is he's a much better coordinator than he is a head coach, like Nolan and Gregg Williams are.

Added benefit is that now we can bring in ex-Browns players too.

I wonder of he takes on the DC title, or the Chiefs do a Redskin/Saunders type thing where they give him a title like Associate HC-defense, while retaining Pendergast.

Crennel would be the defacto DC, but Haley doesn't humiliate his friend.

He knows the 3-4, and can evaluate talent. He just can't head coach his way out of a paper bag.

I think he will be an icky DC, though. And we won't have to worry about him getting another HC opportunity, so he might be with us for the long haul.

I thought all the ex Browns were in Denver.

The "Brownsification" begins.....

Yoshua Cribbs, anyone?

that would be good news imo

not fantastic news but crennel will be an upgrade

This would be great. Best offseason ever, 2010? just playin.

except for when he tells them to "**** off" on national t.v.

It sounds like fantastic news to me, because he is SUCH an upgrade over Pendergast.

The KC Chiefbrownpats.ROFL

That isn't humiliating.

Haven't you ever told a friend to **** off?

Haley needs to humiliate his friend.

So is this just good timing with the Cowher returning to NFL thread?

You mean other than for the Chiefs in 2011?

After the Leach incident, I will not believe anything from ESPN. They have started sliding so much. It feels like paparazzi covering sports.

Yeah, but it comes from Shefter. As much as people hate him, he's generally pretty reliable.

I'm not sure I get this. Didn't everything ESPN reported about Leach turn out to be true?

As long as Jack Harry doesn't say anything about Crennel, there's a chance that it WILL happen.

Krumrie is getting jobbed

Right after that ESPN reported that water is wet. I know shocking. Seriously, that is the only rational explanation for the pendergast hiring. Just an one year stopgap so crennel could get healthy.

Especially since last year they hired Pendergast but waited a couple of weeks before announcing that he was the defensive coordinator. It stands to reason that they were negotiating with Crennel during those two weeks.

Okay this would be a good start for the Chiefs.

Hire a competent defensive co-ordinator, thats a baby step. But thats okay its what this team needs, baby steps.

A start.

No doubt, I wonder if pioli consulted crennel on the t jackson pick ?

wouldnt be going nuts with excitement, but i dont think he could do much worse than clancy has done this year. If anyone needs fired its him

Considering Pendergast was fired after Arizona went to the Super Bowl (how often does that happen?), how much Arizona's defense improved after Pendergast left, and how poorly KC's defense was this year, I can see why we would be looking for a new DC.

The question is how good is Romeo Crennel? The track record of all the former NE coordinators is too good right now. How many of these guys received credit for the success of HC Bill Bilicheck and Tom Brady?

No matter, I would rather have Romeo over Clancy. At least Romeo successfully coached a 3-4 defense. I wonder if this might help in Free Agency to sign a Vince Wilfork (assuming he doesn't re-sign with NE)?

I wonder if we could get our hands on Wimbley. Surely he wants out...

If you mean inaccurate and overtly biased, yes everything turned out to be true.

Post more.

Their track record as head coaches isn't good. That doesn't mean they still can't be good assistant coaches.

So we will have 2 excellent coordinators and still no head coach?

Okay gang, as you know, I have many friends at the upper level of Arrowhead... Romeo Crennel is searching for houses in Leawood. Just FYI. THE DEAL IS DONE!

Can we get a KCI report?

Not sure about KCI, but I did see a rather large black man at Gates approx. 15 minutes ago. I believe that confirms THE DEAL IS DONE!

Belicheat runs the show on the defensive side of the ball for the Patriots.

I can see where you're coming from regarding bias, as it does appear that ESPN is circling the wagons around Craig James. I saw the report last night where they showed several Leach statements and immediately followed them with rebuttals by the trainer and the team physician.

However, I'm not aware of anything they reported that was inaccurate. According to the trainer, Leach did instruct him to LOCK Adam James in a dark room and to make him as uncomfortable as possible.

I think Leach is a helluva football coach who didn't have enough sense to know when to pick his battles.

Yes... there is an airplane at KCI. This all but confirms it.

That and conveniently ignoring the fact that the trainers said that putting him in the shed was not detrimental to his condition. You know, the reason TTU used to fire him.

Let's see what WPI has to say!

Please.

Pendergast has done more than enough to humiliate himself.

Haley doesn't strike me as the type who's going to give two-poops about hurting his friend's feelings.

I called this a month ago

Hooray for you. Many people have been calling this all season...

the rest of the world called it when pendergast was hired....

Nobody thinks that putting Adam James in a shed was going to cause him to go into a coma and die. There's just a lot of visibility these days regarding comas, and it was stupid of Mike Leach to punish a player for having a coma.

Now maybe Leach wasn't punishing him for having a coma. Maybe he was punishing him because Craig was a prima donna and Leach had had enough of his shit. But it was pretty stupid to create the impression that he WAS punishing him for having a coma, since the team physician diagnosed it. And it was even more stupid to dig in his heals and refuse to try to defuse the situation. He had to know that the Texas Tech administration might jump at the chance to fire him, since they openly talked about firing him last year during their heated contract negotiations.

The sad thing is that everone involved is now much worse off. Leach has lost millions of dollars, the Texas Tech football team probably won't win nearly as many games the next few years, and Craig James and his son look like a couple of assholes.

Mike Leach will eventually get another head coaching job, but he won't get back all of the money he lost.

There is sometimes a price to pay for arrogance, even if you're really good at what you do.

I'm better than you

Yes but its nothing more then the Hunts saving face. Lets call it for what it is.

What?

But the shed was only the size of a single car garage. How could anyone survive like 45 minutes in a 10x12 space. I'm surprised it didn't kill him.

Maybe.

However, I think this writing was on the wall the moment that Pendergast took the job as DC, and it's very possible this scenario was in place from the start.

Which statement do you disagree with?

That part about Mike Leach in a thread about Romeo Crennel.

Jay Glazer just said the Chiefs are going after Weiss also

Jay Glazer said it's highly likely that both Romeo Crennel & Charlie Weis will be coaching in KC next season.

John Clayton said its likely we go after every New England free agent

Can we just change the name of the stadium to Gillette West?

Best news since LJ was shipped off.

Reading the trainer's affidavit, it appears that he was punished for showing up to practice in street clothes and wandering around instead of showing up to practice dressed and staying in the injured players area like other injured players.

Then, someday when the Raiders play here in a snow storm, we can royally **** them right out of the playoffs!

It will be funny seeing Haley with 2 former head coaches. For sure the golfer will throw a tantrum.

Yeah, like either team will be sniffing the playoffs anytime soon.

crennel would have already been our dc if he hadn't had hip surgery last year...


pendergast was a spare tire....

OK, valid point.

Do you have proof of that besides it just being a rumor? Thats pretty ****ing stupid of Pioli to just hire a guy for 1 year. I would have rather hired a younger guy like Boles and been done with it.

Or possibly that it was a concussion, not a coma there doctor.

I reiterate what I said once before:
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I think you're right.

Mike Leach would have been better off if he had said that up front, instead of trying to make it sound like he was 100% concerned for Adam James's welfare and he put him in a place where the sunlight wouldn't bother him strictly out of concern for the player. That sounded like 100% bullshit when he said it.

It's not that stupid. If he had in mind that Crennel would be the DC after this year, I am not surprised at all that he would hire a guy who he is so familiar with in Pendergast as a stopgap, since he had coached with him in Arizona.

Kent Babb is tweeting that Robert Kraft is in talks with Hunt about buying the team.

Dang. I was loading up a smart ass response and then I saw that I did use coma a couple of times when I meant concussion. Maybe I should get a proofreader.

Yup, especially seeing as how late the Assistant coaches were hired, Pioli was likely like, oh well **** this year, and just hired Pendergast.

they hired pendergast and didn't name him to a position

they were waiting on crennel to make up his mind, he decided to have hip surgery and pendergast was named dc....

i thought this was common knowledge at the time

and, now, voila, crennel is healthy and rumored to be our new dc...

This.

What is the exact quote? Was it "Crennel is likely to join Chiefs" or was it just some naked speculation that they think makes sense just because Pioli is here?

LMAO I had to re-read it before I posted just to be sure....but if he had locked him in there with a coma then my .02 changes by a whole lot and firing him wou'dn't have been a harsh enough punishment.
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