Posted on 01/04/2006 10:08:43 AM PST by mainepatsfan
Packers will talk to Chargers' Phillips Posted: Wednesday January 4, 2006 12:37PM; Updated: Wednesday January 4, 2006 12:37PM
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- San Diego Chargers defensive coordinator Wade Phillips will interview for the Green Bay Packers' vacant head coaching job Monday, an NFL source told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Phillips, who just concluded his second year as an assistant to Chargers coach Marty Schottenheimer, was the Buffalo Bills' head coach from 1998-2000.
Phillips is one of several candidates expected to be interviewed by Packers general manager Ted Thompson, who fired coach Mike Sherman on Monday.
Thompson said during his news conference Monday he will speak to current Packers defensive coordinator Jim Bates about the job, but also appears to be casting a wide net outside the organization.
The Dallas Morning News reported that the Packers and New Orleans Saints had been granted permission to interview Cowboys offensive coordinator Sean Payton.
Former Chicago Bears linebacker Mike Singletary, another named tossed around in the Packers' rumor mill, said Tuesday that he had not been contacted by the Packers but has spoken to the Detroit Lions.
Gary O'Hagan, agent for former Detroit Lions coach Steve Mariucci, said the Packers have not contacted Mariucci as of Tuesday evening. Mariucci was the Packers' quarterbacks coach under Mike Holmgren.
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Buddy Ryan said that it would have been impossible for the '85 Bears to have run the 46 defense without him.
Mooch is out because Favre likely will be back in that case, and Ted E. Thompson (suuuper genius) doesn't want that. He probably would be interested in Tice and Jauron, especially if they brought in John Shoop as offensive coordinator.
Note; the preceding tells you what I think of the GM.
Why is Saunders not being named head coach? I am still a Griefs, although since I moved to DC I have upgraded and rooted for an much classier indigenious persons, the Redskins.
"He probably would be interested in Tice and Jauron..."
Really??? I was just trying to be a smart-ass.
I think that Dan Reeves is very high on Kubiak and he is probably a front runner at the Texans if they decide to hire from the coordinator ranks.
Tice would make much more sense at GB than Mooch or Dick.
"...The "Green crush" just doesn't have a ring to it...."
The Green got crushed this year. They may be about to go through a year of two of more of this. Same with San Francisco, Houston, and a few others.
The knock that will forever be there against Ditka is that he never gave Walter Payton a real chance to score a td in SB 20. William Perry got the one Sweetness should have had.
I'm wondering if there are any college coaches that could move up this year. Obviously, Pete Carroll has his new contract. His counterpart, Mack Brown, signed a ten year contract last year, so they'd seem to be out. I think Stoops wants to stay in Norman for awhile. I've heard UCLA's coach, Carl Dorrell, I believe, mentioned as a future possibility. Is there anyone else?
Are you kidding me? Sherman can't control the team. Hence why Favre sucked so much under him.
Everyone here (WI) has wanted him out for ages.
TRAITOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was born and raised in (gulp) JERSEY and I could have had my choice of what, 6 maybe seven teams? You is whatcha' is and ya take yer licks.
Shame, Sir. Just SHAME!
Gibbs is danged good though...... g'luck..
"...there is a reason why The Streak is still alive, and that's because #4 is tougher than a G-Shock watch."
What a great rant, and one helluva conspiracy theory, too. So if THEY want Favre out, fire the head coach since #4 said that he wouldn't come back if Sherman got axed, and wait for the inevitable, right? Firing Sherman should've sent a clear message to Favre to please retire since releasing him would prove disastrous. If you're Brett Favre, what would you do?
If your theory is correct and there is any justice in the world, the Bears should sign Favre in the off-season since they're a QB away from greatness. Can you imagine a Favre-Muhammed combination? Of course, I've taken no consideration of contracts and such, but it's fun just thinking about it.
Muhammad is roughly a Walker-type, so that's a wash. The rest of the Bears' receiving corp isn't better than the Packers' (at least when the receivers are healthy), so other than a serious revenge mode, I'm not overly concerned about him headed off to Chicago. Detroit, on the other hand, has a good receiving corp; they just never had a QB that could get them the ball.
It's all right; nobody that's walked the face of the Earth roughly the last 1950 years is perfect.
Ferentz from Iowa.
I'm a Bears fan, but giving my best advise. I don't want the NFC North to be a bad division. The best coach for Green Bay would be Russ Grimm.
Scratch a second name from the Packers' coach hunt. An earlier version of the JS story I linked to had mentioned that defensive coordinator Jim Bates had yet to be scheduled for an interview, and the current version doesn't mention him at all.
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