Shannahan is Fired

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Originally Posted by tk13

Yeah, you make some good points. I didn't mean to bite your head off. Everyone just keeps saying Cowher lucked into this and that. I'm not sure he's my favorite pick just because of his past ties here but I don't think he's that horrible, he's better than Marty and Herm, and I think bringing up stuff from 1994 is tough because I do think he learned and became better as the seasons went along. I'm afraid he'd want too much power, but we'll see.

I'd much rather hire a GM and coach separate and let the GM do his thing.

The reality is though that most of these "defensive" coaches usually have to have help to get a great offense. Cowher, Dungy, even Belichick, I'm not sure he'd be much different than Cowher if he didn't find Brady. Otherwise they're just a team with Drew Bledsoe and a hodge podge group of WR's.

I don't mean to knock any of these guys really though... the reason the Steelers, Colts, Patriots, etc find these guys late in the draft is because they're good at evaluating players and then they stick to their draft board and take guys with potential, some of them pan out and some of them don't.

I still think that if they switched Dungy and Herm, Herm wins 12+ a year with the Colts and they win the Super Bowl or 2, or 3 that Peyton is going to end up winning.

I think that team is what it is because of Peyton Manning. That's just a personal opinion on Dungy...look at his coaching tree...it's dying. Those guys that run the Tampa 2 weren't able to adapt to the rest of the NFL figuring it out...all of those guys from Dungy's staff consistently get beat on 3rd and long...it's just a dead defense...it has been figured out and because of it, the Dungy tree is going to die out because none of those guys adapted. Lovie doesn't hardly even use the Cover 2 anymore and other than Herm, I think he's the only one still going...and he's on thin, thin ice in Chicago.

I'd be totally content with Cowher...but I wouldn't be surprised to see this board calling for his head in two years when we go back-to-back 6-10.

We have a young, young team...with a young owner...lets get a young GM and a young coach and GROW together...that would be my ideal situation...

I could take a few seasons of suck and still remain optimistic if we had young, energetic guys that didn't talk down to the fan base like ol' Herm does.